Imploding Fictions
Winner of
Premio Internazionale Claudio Gora 2007, Rome
Young Angels Theatremakers Award 07/08, UK
Imploding Fictions is a young international performance collective with a passion for bold and unusual performance, irreverent dramaturgies and plays with a rare production history that explode the confines of traditional theatre.
We are based in London, but tour on a regular basis and have recently performed in Egypt,Norway and Italy (winner of Premio Internazionale Claudio Gora for best experimental company in Rome) and given workshops and seminars in Serbia and Germany.
Our projects are diverse (theatre, live art, media art, youth theatre etc.) but at the core of each new endeavour is the desire to affect, provoke and entertain a live gathering. We love to tackle ambitious and unwieldy plays and devise strategies for the representation of new theatrical forms and structures.
We believe in a theatre that tiptoes dangerously between fiction and authenticity, that playfully subverts expectations and creates an adventurous assault course for the audience’s perceptive abilities. We are adamant that theatre can be an important and uplifting art form that sharpens our appreciation of the here and now.
The artistic directors of Imploding Fictions are Philip Thorne and Øystein Ulsberg Brager. The collective is formed by a broad range of international performers, artists and theatre-makers who share an enthusiasm for innovation and collaborative work. Artists and collaborators recombine for different projects. To find out about our previous collaborators click here. If you would like to get involved in an Imploding Fictions project you can contact us under improfilm@hotmail.com.
For regular updates on what we are doing and where we are check out our blog under http://oystein.ulsberg.no/blogg, or subscribe to our newsletter! You can also find links to our other web profiles like Myspace, YouTube and Facebook if you click on Information in the left hand menu.
We hope to see you soon at one of our shows!
Øystein and Philip
Artistic Directors Imploding Fictions
