THE TOLMEN CENTRE

CONSTANTINE

PRESENTS

"6.0 How Heap and Pebble took on the World and Won"

by

Dancing Brick Theatre Company

Friday 15th October    7.30  

Tickets £9,£8,£4

(there are some Arts Council Free Tickets fror Under 26's)

We are delighted to welcome London based Dancing Brick to Constantine for a single performance of their widely acclaimed show  Heap and Pebble  (title shortened to save space!).   This piece of physical theatre won numerous awards and much praise at the 2009 Fringe and is now on a nationwide tour.   Dancing Brick  are based at Battersea Arts Centre in London (whence also came 1927's delightful  "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" last year) and are definitely  a company to watch - on an upward trajectory.  This is their third and most successful production.

Trained at the Lecoq Institute in Paris, they mix mime, movement and music - and from it make shows that are clever, funny, full of charm, and brilliantly devised and delivered.

Heap and Pebble are ice dancers - world champions, the Torvill and Dean of their time:  but this is set in a future where environmental disaster has melted all the ice.   How are our champions to carry on winning in a world with no ice?

The 6.0 of the title refers both to their  maximum prize winning score in ice dance contests  - and to the rise in global temperature which will cause the environmental collapse and melt the icecaps.   This is a play - an engaging, funny and charming piece of theatre - with a backdrop of environmental awareness running through it.   Which makes it totally topical as well as beautifully entertaining.

"This is a lovely little show. It is funny  intelligent and rather poignant, too, in the way it shows two people beaming with misguided optimism in the face of calamity"

Lyn Gardner   The Guardian

"Dancing Brick make exciting, fun, tender and extremely entertaining devised theatre.  Heap and Pebble was a huge success (at BAC) and shows strong potential for a full, sophisticated, witty and highly skilled piece of theatre"

Ed Collier   Producer of Fuel at BAC

The company will also present a second short piece - specially for the Tolmen Centre - entitled "Hannah and Ike",  a poetic, visual response to the question: "How will the rising sea levels affect our everyday lives"    A double bill of environmentally themed theatre from this most creative of companies.

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