Photo: Kaja Kozlowska
FLAP AND FEAR by Darren Lerigo
A theatre production by Imploding Fictions
Theatre Drachengasse 3rd – 22nd May 2010
Directed by Philip Thorne and Oystein Ulsberg Brager
Performed by Lauren McCullum and Rowena Hutson
Sound design by Laurence Short
For tickets and further information see
http://www.drachengasse.at
The play will be performed in English.
Imploding Fictions has been commisioned by Theater in der Drachengasse in Vienna to produce a new performance based on the theme ‘scaremongers’, as part of Drachengasse’s Newcomer-scheme. The performance will be part of an evening entitled Angstmacher.
A little girl is running through a flock of pigeons in a park. They all fly off in a panic, yet she poses no real threat. Later, they always come back.
Flap and Fear follows two London city pigeons as they seek refuge from a world of frights in Drachengasse’s Bar&Co. Flap and Fear is about our addiction to fear and how we return to it, over and over again. In fact – perhaps we are actually complicit with the scaremongers?
DARREN LERIGO
Darren Lerigo is a young British writer currently living in Madrid. He has previously run several online writing projects and published the satirical e-newspaper This Is Your Government Speaking. Darren is winner of the Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke’s ‘Write to Stage’ competition for his play Jester You Shall Sunset. He is currently dreaming of writing a show based on European folk tales, told by a woman playing a harp and backed by a trio of violinists in cages, a banjo playing ape dressed as a pirate and an accordion player with enormously long legs.
ROWENA HUTSON
Rowena graduated with a First Class Honours degree in European Theatre Arts from Rose Bruford College in 2008. She was awarded the Sir John Gielgud Charitable Trust Bursary for promising young actors completing their final year of study for 2007/2008. Rowena is a member of the theatre collective Sheer Lunacy, the permanent ensemble of Underground Cinema, and is the Acting Mentor for Rose Theatrical of London Ltd. She has toured Germany and France with White Horse Theatre Company and has performed in the United Kingdom, Holland and Australia. Credits include: Katrina Van Tassel in Sleepy Hollow, directed by Jaime McCarney; Ebbi in Unwrapped, directed by Luna Gawler; Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Claire Fisher, and The Lady In Red in Manilla for Sheer Lunacy.
LAUREN MCCULLUM
Lauren trained for three years at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance in London, receiving a first class BA honours degree in European Theatre Arts in 2009. Lauren has also studied at the Estonian Academy of Music and Drama and part-time classes at The Circus Space. For the past two and a half years, Lauren has been working with theatre collective, the Fiasco Division, developing performances, events and a creative practice as a company. Lauren has been performing for nine years in various festivals and venues; including the Estonian Academy, Norway’s Operahuset Nordfjord, Reykjavik’s ArtFart and in her home country in London’s National Theatre and Southwark Playhouse, Bournemouth’s Kube Art Gallery and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Past credits include The Queen in Luigi Pirandello’s Henry V, directed by Andrea Cussumano; Anne-Marie Stretter in India Song, directed by Monique Hunt; Iphigenia in Iphigenia in Taurus, directed by Alexia Kokkali; Natella Abashwilli in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, directed by Ingo Normet and numerous devised productions at Rose Bruford and with The Fiasco Division.
You can find a detailed performance schedule, information on ticket bookings and further information on Theater Drachengasse’s homepage:
http://www.drachengasse.at/
Thanks to photographer Kaja Kozlowska for letting us use her lovely photo of a running girl and flapping pigeons in the show! To see how the picture features in the production, make your way to Angstmacher and Flap and fear at Theater Drachengasse in Vienna, Austria.
- Oystein
Poster for the Angstmacher evening
which Flap and fear is part of