Imperfect Orchestra (IO) presents Metamorphosis, a short film exploring transformations through experimentation and abstraction in this contemporary reimagining of Franz Kafka's 1915 novella. IO's first foray into self-production of moving image uses the prism of 21st-century life and its many distortions to explore our cultural and societal values.
Continuing the use of live soundtrack, but with the inclusion of experimental live sound design, the film considers how these very values have transformed over time, and how they exert an almost farcical pressure upon all of...
Arresting, untraditional Shakespeare with powerful performances, striking design and sensory surprises! We have stripped back action and character to zoom in on the dynamics of the killer couple, tracking their murderous ambitions, escalating anxieties and disintegrating bonds against a backdrop of sensual pleasure and normalised violence. Expect a boisterous, playful Macbeth with ribald humour and a muscular undertow of menace. This production is ideal for anyone interested in both the play itself and in contemporary performance techniques.
Dr Dina Rezk lectures in Middle Eastern History at the University of Reading. She has researched the revolutions that swept across Iraq, Syria and Yemen, three devastating Arab-Israeli wars and moves towards an uneasy peace between Egypt and Israel in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Dina has looked at formative events, individuals and themes that have shaped the modern Middle East, from 'Nasserism' to political Islam. Her recent work concerns the latest upheavals of the 'Arab Spring' across the Middle East, and she has briefed UK and US government departments on...
MONDO MONDAY presents a Halloween special. Mondo Monday and Halloween go together like ghosts and Ghoulies, so, finally, mighty Mondo is claiming this holiday as its own and delivering a ‘transformative’ slice of prime lycanthrope action (that’s werewolves folks!) with this stone cold classic. So, if certain parts of your well watched VHS copy have started to go all fuzzy then come on down and see it as nature intended, on a big screen. And remember, "stay off the moors”!
Director: John Landis Cast: David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, Jenny Agutter. Running time: 93 mins Cert: 18...
Sound poets Tomomi Adachi and Hannah Silva join forces, presenting Pluto is a Planet! in which they literarily play the shirts off their backs, using gesture and infrared sensors to process their voices live. Silva performs tracks from her acclaimed debut album Talk in a bit and Adachi presents an extraordinary selection of sound poetry, from Japanese dada to his own soaring and percussive vocal compositions.
Date: Wednesday 24 Oct Time: 19:30 Ticket information: £10/£7, UoP students free via SPiA
The Rising is an empowering highly charged double bill of dance and live music. It explores what makes people feel alive, using influences of Fijian culture and ideas of community, vulnerability and surrender.
Featuring original compositions by multi award-winning musicians Will McNicol & Luke Selby, dramaturgy by Chris Fogg and lighting design by Tim Hardy.
HeatherWalrondCompany is a professional contemporary dance company based in Devon. It is supported by Arts Council England and led by Choreographer & Artistic Director Heather Richmond.
Brief Encounter is one of the greatest films of love found and love lost. In a cafe at a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson meets Dr. Alec Harvey. Although they are already married, they gradually fall in love with each other. They continue to meet every Thursday in the small cafe, although they know that their love is impossible.
Heart- warming and tragic, it is a film that continues to endure, depicting a doomed couple's illicit connection with affecting sensitivity and a pair of powerful performances. Often discussed and rarely seen on the big screen – it will leave a...
A concert to entertain the family, this annual gathering of the Peninsula Doctors’ Orchestra invites you to share their musical enjoyment. Parting donations welcome in aid of the University of Plymouth Brain Tumour Centre of Excellence, which raises vital funds for research into the prevention and treatment of brain tumours.
Music is all around us; music knows no linguistic or geopolitical boundaries; music moves us all. Music is often spontaneous, but some compositions are carefully crafted with deep thought about every exquisite detail. We can all sing and whistle, but music has also been wedded to technology for thousands of years. And while all music proceeds in time, there are works in which such a continuum is multi-dimensional.
An acclaimed pianist known for his interpretations of Beethoven and new music, Dr Robert Taub, new Music Director of The Arts...
Having visited and surveyed hundreds of historic inns across the British Isles, Jamaica, the United States and Canada, over the last three years, for a major Leverhulme Trust-funded research project, the University of Plymouth’s Professor Dan Maudlin presents an illustrated insight to the inns he studied in America. He examines the British Atlantic world in this location through the building, occupation, and varied uses of these vital spaces for early modern travellers.
As an architectural historian, Prof Maudlin is interested in the relationship between design and the spaces and...
