Archive
For Slung Low in 2009:
They only come at night: Visions
Barbican
Beyond the Frontline
Lowry (Manchester)
They only come at night: Ressurection
Lowry (Manchester)
Last Seen
Almeida
Chasing Next doors cat
by Victoria Pratt
Chasing next doors cat is about the disappearance of important places and the success or failure of memory. It is a performance about the act of revisiting memories and the landscapes to which we aquaint and understand ourselves.
A work in progress peformance was shown at the National Theatre Studio in april 09 as part of Spill platform.
Monsters
by Niklas Radstrom
(Arcola/Strawberry Vale, 6th-30th May 09)
Finale by Pacitti company
For Finale Pacitti Company join forces with sensational Swiss cult electronica band Velma to bring you one from the heart: a series of highly visceral performances shown in intense site specific locations. Abstracting the 1867 Emile Zola text 'Therese Raquin' Finale dispenses with narrative structure and character, in order to prioritise the themes of the book - deception, lust, spite and domination. This is theatre full of sexual obsessions and jealous distractions played out against the hypnotic repetitions of Velmas minimalist soundwork. Pacitti Company revel in the dirt of Zola's text and, true to form, Finale is compelling and explicit, uncompromising and cruel.
As part of an international tour Pacitti Company will collaborate with a collective of guests artists to uniquely interpret the piece for LBT. They will take you on a journey into the unknown, giving you a chance to explore the theatre as never before.
LBT Huddersfield 28th-29th November 08
With the band By Lucy Ellinson, Stevie Doherty and Victoria Pratt
Presented at Development Lab (theatre in the Mill 24th Oct 08) and ( YLAF 25th Oct 08)
This is an ongoing project www.withtheband.org.uk
Helium By Slunglow (Winner of the Oxford Samual Beckett theatre trust award 2008)
Presented at the Barbican Theatre, London as part of bite08 from
3-20 September 2008.
Eulogy/instate By Lucy Ellinson
Performed by Lucy Ellinson and Victoria Pratt (Theaterhause Tic 7 Manheim Germany 09/BAC March 09/Forest Fringe, Edinburgh festival August 2008 ).
It sank with the shape of us
Created and performed by Victoria Pratt as part of Fierce Festival (Birmingham Hippodrome May 23rd-26th).
Click image below to watch a record of the piece
It sank with the shape of us is a multimedia installation to be experienced by one audience member at a time. Individually they enter a small space dressed like a living room, fully furnished, slightly worn with a distinct smell and the impression of someone not long departed. A recorded female voice plays out in the room, questioning and confronting the lone audience member.
The space vibrates as the intensity of the relationship builds, the room comes to life, through the television, over the telephone. It sank with the shape of us is about someone who is unable to seperate their identity from their relationship with the person they love. It deals with a human need to be seen and a desperate desire to control the passing of time, through the social instinct of projecting ones' own life onto other peoples' and popular cultures such as films and television.
Performed by Ben Eaton and Victoria Pratt, Sheffield drama Studio (December 19th 2007)
Alone performer walks onto the stage followed by a live video feed of herself. As she talks reality and time begin slip. Its all ghosts now explores notions of performed intimacy and our relationship to place and memories.
written by Victoria Pratt as Part of Tether Festival, Nottingham (November 4th-24th 2007)
A wide range of book art has infiltrated the shelves of the Bromley house library. Armed
with only a map, visitors are invited to hunt down these one-off and limited edition artist-made books while exploring the beautiful 18th Century Town House.
Mummy You Made Me
Written and Performed By Victoria Pratt, Norwich Arts Centre (October 9th 2007)
Mummy You Made Me explores the role of labels in our social and emotional interactions, our perception of ourselves, others and the ones we love.
In the eyes of…
An Installation created and performed by Victoria Pratt. Studio 3, University of Sheffield (May 2007)
Duration: 6hours
Blue Blue Blue Velvet Velvet Velvet
By Aaron Juneau performed by Victoria Pratt, Nottingham Trent University degree show (June 2007)
A Lynch Style living room, three T.V screens replaying a famous Rosselini extract. One shows a clip from the film,one a pre-recorded replica and the third a live feed to the ajoining room where the performer repeats the same words `Do you like the way I feel, feel me, hit me’.
Duration: 4hours