PREVIOUS PRODUCTIONS
European
Playwright’s Festival 2004
Hosted by Envision Theatre and the University of Manchester
In collaboration with the Alliance Francaise de Manchester, Goethe Institut
and the Cervantes Institute.
These were performed script in hand, and were all directed by Susannah Tresilian:
Caresses by Sergi Belbel
Art by Yasmina Reza
Push-Up by Roland Schimmelpfennig
Presented at the John Thaw Studio, Manchester
"Overall, an interesting experiment. More Please!"
"City Life" issue 535 13th May 2004
I Love
You, You’re Perfect, Now Change!
by Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts
“I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change!” is not the longest-running off-broadway show purely by chance. It cuts to the chase of dating dilemmas, courting confusions and marital woes, without a hint of time-specific wardrobes or technological accoutrements, class or age boundaries. The four actors play 15 characters in a fast forwarded premonition of the modern human relationship.
"It covers everything to do with relationships, from getting ready for dates, songs about geeks who dream about turning into babes and turn back into geeks again and cool people who have babies and suddenly only talk about babies,"
says Susannah Tresilian, the founder of Envision Theatre who stars in and directs the show.
"It's about every women who never gets called by their boyfriends,
people in the later parts
of relationships and married people
who never have time for sex. It covers absolutely everything and
so it manages to make everybody really identify."
"Tom Guest, Will Newell, Helen Spencer and Susannah Tresilian,
accompanied by live piano and violin, revel in the snappy dialogue
and quirky numbers, using their unique blend of energy and
passion to bring to life a myriad of comic characters."
- icbirmingham.co.uk, 20th Dec 2004
"Forget Sex
in the City and don't give Bridget Jones a second thought,
the grand-daddy of relationship shows has come to town."
- This is London, 7th Jan 2004
The Rise
and Fall of Little Voice
by Jim Cartwright
The Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester
9th and 10th May 2003
The story of a
young girl who finds her only source of joy, life and escape from her drunken
mother in impersonating the songs and voices of all time greats. Her life
is turned upside down when a cowboy ‘manager to the stars’ discovers
Little Voice and tries to make her the star she never wanted to be.
Made famous by the film Little Voice with Jane Horrocks, Michael Caine and
Ewan MacGregor, and with songs by Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey and Lulu. This
production - with live band and a talented cast – was for a Little Voice,
with anything but.
Echo Viva
Location:
Rodeano Basso, ITALY
Dates: 22-29 August 2003
An artistic exchange of theatrical techniques. A week long international theatre laboratory with Servi di Scena (Italy), Cadmium Compagnia (France), and Envision Theatre (UK). Each day was split into four, starting with Italy's work on improvisation and using masks; followed by Envision Theatre's workshops on using texts (Shakespeare and Strindberg); Cadmium Compagnie worked on using the body in space; and the day ended working on the group devised production of Edipo Re.
ECHO VIVA culminated in a joint
production of Edipo Re (Oedipus Rex) at the Centro Civico of Rodeano Basso,
directed by Paolo Nikli, assisted by Susannah Tresilian
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