performance
Photos: Richard Nicholson & Tim Nunn
“It is through this theatrical vision that we see how easily we are blinded by words”The Times
Since 1995 Clod has created dozens of pieces ranging from 7 minute sketches to full length 90 minute productions, with casts as small as 2 and as large 26 and for spaces large and small, with spoken text or no words at all.
"Brilliantly intense, funny, thrilling theatre
which defies simple classification"
The Stage
Each production is different - we take inspiration from photographs, paintings, stories, plays, or use the musical score as the ‘text’.
At the heart of each piece is a distinctive aesthetic that integrates movement based theatre with original music.
We collaborate with brilliant performers, artists and musicians from very different backgrounds, guaranteeing that no new project relies on an old formula.
We have performed in theatres, galleries, museums, public spaces, schools, and day care centres, including: Trafalgar Square, Victoria and Albert Museum, Purcell Room, BAC, Oxford Playhouse, McEwan Hall (Edinburgh) La Mama (NYC) , and at festivals including London International Mime Festival, Festival of Firsts, Fierce Festival,Glasgay!, Psi (Arizona and London). Our work has toured internationally with the support of the British Council to Eastern Europe, Brazil and Asia.
"A refreshing reinvention of the interplay between
music and action on stage."
The Times
"... on stage musicians become part of the drama so often the boast and rarely the achievement of music theatre."The Independent
PERFORMANCES:
IN DEVELOPMENT
Must
A collaboration with Peggy Shaw
Under Glass
A series of pieces that take place in glass boxes
REPERTOIRE Available For Touring
Red Ladies
Who are they? And what do they want?
Greed
A piece for two performers & pianist inspired
by silent movies
Silver Swan
A choreographed, installation concert
It’s A Small House and We Lived
in It Always
A collaboration with Split Britches
For One Night Only
An evening of short pieces
PAST PRODUCTIONS
Kiss My
Echo
A surreal look at the medical profession
Lady Grey
Based on the painting by Paul Delaroche
Miss Risque
A collaboration with Split Britches
The Overcoat
Gogol’s classic tragic comic tale
Metamorphoses
Myths from Ovid’s epic poem
Musical Scenes
Seven short pieces
Feast During the Plague
Pushkin’s Little Tragedy
Pierrot Lunaire
Arnold Schoenberg's seminal piece
Songs For The Dead
An installation concert
Other
Concerts
© Clod Ensemble 2007