The Courtyard Theatre
Tuesday 30 June
Tickets £5 /£3 concession
We are very excited to present five autobiographical performances
by final year performing arts students from Bucks New University. Combining
song, multimedia and dance to create a varied and multifaceted night, each of
the performers takes a different approach to exploring the personal, cultural
and social history that makes them the people they are
today.
today.
Performed by Jenny Wade, Cassie Fletcher, Modupe Salu, Adam
Zaman and Esther Abe.
The BA (Hons) course at Bucks New University offers a unique opportunity to study Performance with the latest
technology in every conceivable context, including stage, film, emerging media platforms,
multi-media and site-specific work.
The performances presented were created as part of the
students’ individual research for their final year dissertation.
to book tickets, please go to:http://www.thecourtyard.org.uk/whatson/591/me-myself-and-I
About the performers:
Jenny
Wade
Jenny graduated from the Myra Tiffin
Performing Arts School in 2012. Jenny has since been in a number of
professional stage productions including Evita and An Inspector Calls, whilst
also appearing in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror on Channel 4. She is
performing a devised physical comedy at the Camden Fringe Festival this year
with Glow Worm Theatre Company and is due to graduate from Bucks New University
with a degree in Performing Arts (Film, TV & Stage) in September.
Title of performance - Together Again
An exploration of how new multimedia forms in
performance can be used to alter preconceptions of time and space. One
performer, using technology to remediate footage from her childhood and perform
the impossible task of interacting live with a deceased parent.
Cassie Fletcher
Cassie
Fletcher grew up on several different army bases, but later found a home
splitting her time between Newcastle Upon Tyne and High Wycombe for her degree.
She has been acting for over 6 years now, and has also directed plays
for 4 years. Notable shows: If Not Now, When?; Butterfly Kiss,
and Spring Awakening. Having just finished her degree, Cassie
now wants to spend the next year travelling and continuing to push into
the industry.
Title of performance - Not Me, Not I, But Not Myself
One stage, one confession. One person?
Cassie Fletcher has something to tell you, and
it's big. Three years of living a lie has led her to this point.
You might hide away your weird thoughts or your embarrassing stories from
school, but what if you hid away your whole personality and created someone
else? Who do you want to be today? That is the question Cassie asks herself
every morning. Not Me, Not I, But Not Myself scoops out and externalises
the internal daily struggle going through Cassie's personalities until by
the end you think you must know everything. Sitting in a chair just as you are
now, Cassie will change irrevocably right in front of you.
"This is important so sit up and listen
because I'll only say it once."
Modupe Salu (MD)
Ever since I was young I have always wanted
to perform and acting seems to be the one thing that allows me to fully be free
and express myself without being judged. Cliché it may sound I know, but that
is how it honestly makes me feel.
Going on this journey of becoming an actor
has been an interesting one. Finishing university and literally being thrown
out into the ‘real world’ I have learnt that I will never ever stop learning
about what an actor does and how it can impact people’s thoughts and life. I think
that is why I am so in love with my craft, I get to carry on playing and
exploring, while teaching and showing people how different characters in life
react, interact and act in the world we portray.
Title of
Performance - I CAN’T BREATHE
A poetic per formative response to the death
of Eric Garner.
Here you will hear responses from poets,
musicians to the everyday girl or boy on the racial tensions between the
police, society and individual battle of being black.
Adam Zaman
Adam began acting at the age of 14 when he
started to attend weekly workshops at Burnley Youth Theatre, eventually serving
as a Young Representative and being a part of their in house theatre company
‘BYTEBACK Theatre’. It was with BYTEBACK that he performed at the Edinburgh
Fringe Festival in 2012 before studying Performing Arts (Film, TV and Stage) at
Bucks New University. After graduating, Adam intends on pursuing a career in
the Acting industry.
Title of
performance – Walk with Me
An
experimental autobiographical performance that explores how through the use of
the Stanislavski method, one can visit the past versions of his self and
present them on stage through the authentic recreation of 3 conversations held
with those closest to him.
Esther Abe
A recent graduate from Buckinghamshire New University – Performing
Arts (TV, Stage & Film). The first time stepping onto the stage at the age
of six, I knew that I wanted to be a performer. I studied Acting all the way
through school, also at GCSE, A-Level and recently at Degree level. I have been fortunate enough to work with
companies such as ‘Glas(s) Performance’ and ‘Thickskin’, which have done
nothing but fuel me with fire for performance whether it’s dancing around the
house or performing professionally.
Title of
performance - Awọn awọ ti irora. (The
Colour of pain)
The life of an actor / actress isn’t easy …
It’s even harder when you’re black. There are awkward audition situations,
stereotypes along with pretending to be someone your not just to be what the
judges are looking for. But what happens when you tell your audition story but
place it in your favourite era? Awọn awọ ti irora (the colour of pain) looks into a personal part of my life by
combining the 80’s with one of the worst stereotypical auditions of my life so
far.
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