HOAX

28/06/2021

Here's a yummy sneak peak of rehearsal fun from last week!

28/05/2021

HYSTERICAL
PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD, VAULT FESTIVAL 2016

★★★★ “A dark and vivid nightmare founded on human fragility” – The Argus

“Excels at creating an increasing chaos” – Exeunt Magazine

“A psychosis circus full of laughs” – Disability Arts Online

“A new avenue in the dialogue between mental health and theatre” – The Metropolist

THE PLAY/
Playwright and performance poet Karis Halsall (MEGAPOLITAN, Little Stitches) joins forces with ‘All in’ director Stephen Sobal (Love Sick, Treading Water) to bring you the VAULT previews of HYSTERICAL. Set between a frantic advertising agency and an inpatient facility; June, a virgin clown and her associates attempt to rebrand water, wellness and ‘madness’ and Madonna. Co-produced by HOAX (AUS/CAN/UK) and Luminary Theatre (UK) in collaboration with UCL.

Drawing on the creative teams’ experiences and developed in collaboration with academics and clinicians at UCL, Halsall’s new play examines how gender and modern day pressures can militate on our mental health.

CREATIVE TEAM/
Writer/ Karis E. Halsall
Director/ Stephen Sobal
Puppetry Direction/ Mikey Brett and Caroline Bowman & Charlotte Quartermaine (The Rainbow Collectors)
Cast/ Sarah Fraser (June) , Fionnula Kennedy (Mercedes) , Alice Trow (Catherine), Kristin Blakstad (Mary, Nurse Mary, Puppetry), Cameron Harle/ Sam Adamson (Kris, Puppetry), Flavia Bertram (Lion, Puppetry)
Design/ Flavia Bertram & Avninder S. Nanray
Sound Design/ Lawrence Kendrick
Stage Manager/ Cassandra Fumi
Creative Production/ Karis E Halsall, Ayesha Tansey, Sarah Fraser, Flavia Bertram

PRODUCTION PARTNERS/
Luminary Theatre, Theatre Deli London & University College London

VIDEO TEAM/
CAMERA/ Simon Bowyer, EDIT/ Flavia Bertram, SOUND/ Lawrence Kendrick, STARRING BY/ Sarah Fraser, Karis Halsall, Stephen Sobal, Flavia Bertram and Al Parra

PERFORMANCES/
3 – 7 February, 2016 @ Vault Festival, London
14-15 May, 2016 @ 4pm, Brighton Fringe @ The Warren Main Stage
May 18-20, 2016 @ Stories of Being Festival, Platform Southwark

14/05/2021

TACK ON TOURS: THE UGLIEST BUILDINGS IN LONDON
LONDON FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE, 2014 & 2015

“Pick of the Festival 2015″ – LONDONist

“Awkward, embarrassing but highly entertaining and captivating.” – Toothpick Nation

“Unhinged, uncomfortable, unbridled… genius. A must see.” – A Younger Theatre

★ ★★★★ “An extraordinary and memorable piece of theatre.” – Female Arts

“This walking tour is a welcome antidote” – Riba Journal

THE TOURS/
Join Pam and Sharl on their hysterical walking tour as they share their love for some of the uglier buildings in London. There is no accounting for taste! You will witness things that are better left unsaid, unstated and unseen: The abject exterior of the bla bla bla to the stone steps of Holborn station.

These theatricalised walking tours will guide the curious through an unusual psychogeography of the capital’s architectural underbelly. The ladies will present their favourite places and spaces and disclose the stories of those who dreamed them up, designed and realised them. An informative and funny parody of the walking tour, Tack-On Tours reveals that even the ugly can be beautiful…

CREATIVE TEAM/
Devised and performed by Ayesha Tansey and Flavia Bertram.
Special Thanks to Sarah Fraser, Zach Dunbar, Joe Windley, Sam Tansey and Michael Harrison.

PERFORMANCES/ June-July 2014 & 2015 at London Festival of Architecture

07/05/2021

PLEASE DON'T TALK ABOUT ME WHEN I'M GONE
ORIGINS AWARD, VAULT FESTIVAL 2015

“Fresh, demanding, and brilliantly subversive…theatre that runs and slams itself against the limits of convention”

★★★★ “This show is funny, it is poignant, it is theatre daring to say something important. It criticises and lampoons some of the absurd realities that surround us all. Go and see this play.” – Londonist

“Clear-eyed director Nathalie Adlam, and her four-strong cast – Ayesha Tansey, Nadege Adlam, Sarah Fraser and Norma Butikofer [are] alternately funny, unfunny, past control and deeply affecting.”

★★★★ “a punk grandeur – scattering, bamboozling, then stark, plain and pained” – londontheatre1.com

“Beautifully brutal…hits you like a freight train” – Alan Franks

THE PLAYS/

Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone is a suite of dystopian parables nailing the collective unease of the Greater North / Middle West / FiniteEverywhereLand.

1. They Shoot Ponies, Don’t They: A girl grows up to become what she always wanted to be, a horse.
2. The Shepherdess & the Saviour, Beauty Queens: Two Miss Worlds promise you peace (of mind).
3. From Earth: Why bureaucrats best not read Logan’s Run.
4. “The Jack the Ripper Experience”: A distillation of pop-rape culture trade, with a chaser.
5. Please Don’t Talk About Me: Let’s not ruin the ending.

VIDEO TEAM/
CAMERA/ Simon Bowyer SOUND/ Lawrence Kendrick, STARRING & PRODUCED BY/ Sarah Fraser & Ayesha Tansey

THEATRE TEAM/
Script Writer/ Tobias Manderson-Galvin
Cast/ Nadège Adlam, Norma Butikofer, Sarah Fraser and Ayesha Tansey
Director/ Nathalie Adlam
Producers/ Sarah Fraser and Ayesha Tansey of HOAX
Co-produced/ Les Foules & MKA: Theatre of New Writing
Designer/ Manuela Harding
Sound Trailers and Production/ Lawrence Kendrick
Stage Manager/ Cassandra Fumi
Lighting Design/ Sarah Crocker

PERFORMANCES/ 11-15 February, 2015 @ 6:30pm, Vault Festival

26/11/2020

The weird sisters hand in hand....

12/11/2020

What's done cannot be undone...

04/11/2020

...something wicked this way comes....
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28/08/2020

Our costumes from 'stuck' are still on tour, even if we aren't!

These wild creations from Andrea Carr - Artist/Designer made in collaboration with the imaginations of Ayesha Tansey Sabrina Manach Flavia Bertram Lucy Hopkins Balbina Garcia will be at the The National Centre for Craft & Design from September through to the end of January.

If you're in the midlands, do check. it. out.

In partnership with the Society of British Theatre Designers this exhibition celebrates the diversity of performance designs by UK designers across a range of spaces & genres.

18/08/2020

We are excited to be part of The Cockpit's 'Theatre Maker' series again this autumn.

Join Sarah for 'Making Theatre from Scratch'
November 5 to December 21

This course is for actors who are bored of waiting around for the next audition and want to start creating their own work. It is a chance to create a piece that you are passionate about, and an opportunity to meet likeminded people that could provide valuable contacts moving forward.

More info in the link.
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07/03/2020

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04/03/2020

🎉🎉🎉We made this little video with 'stuck' designer Andrea Carr for the Staging Places exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum!

🏕⛺️STUCK is:
DIRECTOR/ Lucy Elizabeth Hopkins, DEVISING ACTORS/ Ayesha Tansey Flavia Bertram Sabrina Manach, DESIGNER/ Andrea Carr, COSTUME FABRICATION / Balbina Garcia, SET FABRICATION ASSISTANTS / Flavia Bertram & Avninder S. Nanray, SOUNDSCAPE DESIGN/ Lawrence Kendrick Lucy Claire, MOVEMENT ASSOCIATE/ Jillian Wallis, SUPPORT/ Richard Pettifer Sarah Kendrick

STUCK's designer Andrea Carr talking about her process for Staging Places at the V&A, London UK. The exhibition runs Tuesday, 23 July 2019 – Sunday, 29 March...

20/01/2020

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..Seriously, folks, is a fabulous place to be as an artist and punter.

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