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“a company with an extremely bright future” The Telegraph (2012)
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“a company with an extremely bright future” The Telegraph (2012)

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From developing the work in Norwich, we’ll be heading out on tour nationally with

In 2013,

is 5 years young. In the last 18 months we’ve tried to take our ideas far and wide across the UK and to nurture dialogue with partners to bring to life some of the most curious ideas in science.

The 2012 Hexagon Season was a busy year for us and we’re really excited to introduce for 2013.

This year we’re concentrating on making work from our current base, Norwich. We’re proud to be working on our major new production for 2013 with the Norfolk and Norwich Festival,

before touring in 2014. We’re working out of a new office in Norwich and we’re running some local artist development projects out of The Garage as part of a new initiative,

and

We’ll also be developing our new piece

and continuing to grow projects like with partners further afield.

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We’ve also just accepted a new commission from LIFT and Imagine 2020 and have named this piece

Finally we have a new pilot scheme called

This sees us working with Guardian Science & Sense About Science to partner local theatres around the UK with top-class Universities and local artists. Scientists and artists will work with their theatres in an exchange which we hope will kickstart lost conversations.

Within the company, we’ve appointed six creative associates, company members who have worked with us, in some cases, from the very beginning. These associates interweave and strengthen all the work we’re doing this year.

We’re always learning from the example of those that inspire us: those who find new ways of making work, with partners who share a sense of progression and belief in core principles.

Be it in a moving ambulance, an end-on space, a town square or a theatre foyer,

is also about testing the third culture that curious directive operates within: the liminal space between art and science.

Come and knock on our door, watch a show, observe a rehearsal or get in touch with a question. www.curiousdirective.com @c_directive

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Is curious directive’s

for you?Probably, if you’re curious about and enjoy

www.TED.comradiolab.org (from NYC)

Radio 6 music The Pod Delusion

Skeptics in the PubVisiting the Palais de Tokyo (in Paris)

Four Thought / From Fact to Fiction (Radio 4) postsecret.com

BBC Question Time and most BBC Science programmes

as well as the following ideas and quotes...

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“Even though the words art and science are on everyone’s lips no-one knows where it’s going…are we heading towards a third culture?... The most extraordinary works of art and momentous discoveries in science have emerged from people seeing connections where they don’t seem to exist.“

“…Instead of seeing art and science as sort of static nouns, I see them more as an approach to knowledge… so it’s an active methodology.”

“I think your creativity, your brain or soul, whatever; you need to be interested in many things. And all these things eventually converge to one place and you find some kind of resonance…both the artist and the scientist are in quest of beauty.”

“An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is not only a source of curiosity but of fulfilment.”

“…even if we’re just going into a gallery to escape the rain, art reminds us that our own unfortunate circumstances are not all we have — that we really are all in this together.”

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“China is the no.1 output of science globally…the scientific

league tables are not just about prestige - they are a

barometer of a country’s ability to compete on the world

stage.”

“It was my dream to see the Rosetta Stone at

home in the Museum of Cairo.” “The NHS, as we know it,

needs a prayer.”

“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”

“What traditionally has been called ‘science’ has

today become ‘public culture’…”

“There is a crack in everything…that’s how the light gets in.”

“Science is the only news. When you scan through a news-paper or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same sorry cyclic dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of new-ness, and even the technology is predictable if you know the science. Human nature doesn’t change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly.”

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A WAY OF SEEING OUR BROCHURE

As we’re a non-building based theatre company, we’re approaching our brochure like a building-based company might

approach their venue:

1. We give you the nano version of what the pieces are on the right hand side of the page - #form_area/of/science_space_audience/adjective

2. We then talk to you about what happens in the show and why it interests us

3. We’ve put down who we’re working with on it

4. We tell you how long it is, where it is, when it is and how to get a ticket

Come in. Look around. We hope you enjoy what you see.

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World Premiere

curious directive supported by Norfolk and Norwich Festival.

A pan-city promenade piece taking you into the curious day-to-day life of the paramedic. Step into an ambulance and rush through

the city streets to witness the full spectrum of human experience. Traffic accidents, new born babies, unidentified lodged objects, obnoxious drunks, hypochondriacs, drug overdoses, stabbings

and then home for a cup of tea. All in a day’s work.

An uplifting, exhilarating, once in a lifetime theatre experience in the back of a moving ambulance.

For the adventurous.

Made in collaboration with Prof. Roger Kneebone (Imperial College), Tracy Dye (Paramedic) & Norvic Ambulances.

Performance runs: circa. 50 mins

Friday 10 May 11.00, 12.30, 14.00 & 15.30Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 May 11.00, 12.30, 14.00, 15.30, 17.30 & 19.00

Box Office: 01603 766 400Tickets: £8

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curious directive in association with Watford Palace Theatre (UK Tour)

Spanning 70 years and four interconnecting stories, After the Rainfall forges a modern tale about the aftermath of the British Empire.

This epic piece of adrenaline fuelled theatre investigates the architecture of ant colonies and their relationship to human behaviour.

A breathtaking mix of multi-media video, original composition, sound and scenography used to create exciting multi-layered narratives.

1952 Edward and Ishak are in a Tiger Moth, flying high over the Egyptian desert.1986 Claire is in Cumbria, home from art college.2013 Rashida is on a pilgrimage across Europe to see the Rosetta Stone.2022 John has written a best-selling book about the communication of ants. Grace is working on a controversial nuclear waste depository in Egypt.

Made in collaboration with Henry Ferguson-Gow (Myrmecologist, UCL)

“How do you weave together the Arab Spring, the study of ants, a lost coal miner and the dying days of empire? Very cleverly if you’re curious directive.”

The Scotsman

“Beautiful…compelling…intelligent, highly original theatre” The Telegraph

Performance runs: circa. 80 mins

The Garage, Norwich: 28 - 29 May 01603 630000TR2, Plymouth: 4 - 8 June 01752 267222West Yorkshire Playhouse: 11 - 13 June 0113 213 7700Arts Depot: 14 - 15 June 020 8369 5454More Autumn tour dates to be announced. Tickets: £9-15

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Imagine Watford: Friday 28 June: 13.45 - 15.15 & 17.00 - 18.30Saturday 29 June: 15.00 - 16.30 & 18.05 - 19.35Sunday 30 June: 13.00 - 14.30 & 15.30 - 17.00

Box Office (for more details): 01923 225671

Keep an eye out for future touring dates

Tickets: Free

AND WE WILL PLAY AGAIN? explores the personality of Watford.

What makes Watford tick in 2013?

Using a game format, the audience are in charge. It’s your town. It’s your game.

Observe. Roll the dice. Watch what you’ve done. Decipher the game. Change the game.

Made in collaboration with Matt Cooper (Spring Offensive)

Performance runs: circa. 90mins (durational)

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A response to “The Great Transition”. Island Mass is an installation, a hymn about an imagined future where the crowds begin to tumble into the sea. It tells the story using your shadow, your opinions, your thoughts and your imagination for what the world will look like post-austerity. A world where a collective consciousness

for climate change will rise again, along with the sea, along with CO2 levels and along with mankind’s thirst for growth.

An intimate installation with dynamic graphic design, sound and an experience which aims to create a dialogue about a consciousness in

transition. The piece will respond to you, in a little and ever inventive way each year on the date you experienced it between 2013 and 2050.

Commissioned by LIFT as part of IMAGINE 2020 in day of events co-curated with Artsadmin, responding to the New Economics

Foundation report The Great Transition.

Artsadmin: 22 JuneToynbee Studios, London, E1 6ABAnd touring Europe

Tickets: £10 (Available from May 13 2013)

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curious directive in association with Latitude Festival and Greenwich Observatory.

We’ve been peering up at the night sky for thousands of years.

What are the different ways of seeing the sky at night?

This unique opportunity to experience the initial sketches of a new 2014 show takes you on a journey into the Chinese

perspective on Astronomy and culture.

Performance runs: circa. 30mins

Latitude Festival: 18 - 21 Julywww.latitudefestival.com

Day ticket for the entire festival: from £84.50

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curious directive in residency at Nuffield, Southampton.Working with the University of Southampton, and

Martin Robbins (Guardian Science).

Meme is an exploration for form and content.

Over a week, curious directive will share their broad methodologies for connecting science and art with five local

artists and scientists from Southampton.

Meme will sow the seeds for new approaches to devised collaboration in unexpected places.

Conceived in collaboration with Simon Watt.

Nuffield Theatre, Southampton: October (Exact date tbc)

www.nuffieldtheatre.co.uk

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Artistic Director: Jack Lowe Executive Producer: Sophie Larsmon

2013 Project Producers: Luke Emery & Claire Turner

Production Manager: Rhys Thomas

Press/PR: Nancy Poole & SFPR

Creative Associates: Adam Alston, Jasmine Robinson, Karina Sugden, Gareth Taylor, Jo Walker & Russell Woodhead.

2013/14 Trustees: Currently searching for further appointments mid-season. Contact [email protected] if interested in

finding out more.

Programme Photography and Design: Jasmine Robinson

Charity Number: 1144024www.curiousdirective.com

General Enquiries: [email protected]

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“Jack Lowe and his ensemble continue to push boundaries and fire imaginations”The Metro (2012)

#LITMUS/CULTURE @c_directive


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