Advanced Productions Festival is starting today!

It’s that exciting time of the year again when our annual Performing Arts Advanced Production Festival kicks off: join us at this exciting performance festival led by our third year students, who produce, direct and perform in various shows presented both inside and beyond the university.  

Again, this year’s performances are a wide range of plays, and include devised performances alongside original writing, whilst the opening night presents a musical version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

All of the performances will be shown at The Wycombe Swan in the Town Hall between the 22 February and the 2 March 2016, before travelling to venues such as Oxford House or Omnibus in London, and local venues such as Norden Farm in Maidenhead and Duke St Theatre between 1 and 11 March.

Wycombe Town Hall:

Monday 22 February

7.30pm £5 (£3)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

This is a new musical adaptation, giving of one of Shakespeare’s most loved plays a new twist. This performance is ideal for young students and adults who wish to add a swing to their step.

By The Revisited Theatre Company

https://www.facebook.com/RevisitedCo/timeline

Also showing at

Aylesbury Waterside:

Friday 4 March

7.30pm £6.50

See below for full details of all other performances:

kicking off the new year in style . . .

It's only the second week into the new term, and we have barely recovered from our Christmas and New Year celebrations, and already a lot is happening on the Performing Arts course at Bucks New University.

This Time Last Year - Film Still

TRADED at the Wycombe Swan Town Hall

Bucks New University tackles Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution.

Students at Buckinghamshire New University are to take to the stage and shine a light on human trafficking and child prostitution at Wycombe Town Hall for the production TRADED.
Contemporary jazz theatre company EIC Dance Theatre is working with the University’s creative students for an interdisciplinary performance on Tuesday 17 November at the Wycombe Town hall.
TRADED saw students and lecturers from the performing arts, dance, film and fashion courses collaborate with each other under the guidance of Sara Dos Santos to highlight this important social issue!

Something exciting is happening at Bucks New University

TRADED – an interdisciplinary performance project

An interdisciplinary performance shining a spotlight on human trafficking and child prostitution is being put together by a range of creative courses at Bucks.

TRADED will be performed at Wycombe Town Hall on Tuesday 17 November and is curated by professional choreographer Sara Dos Santos.

This collaborative project is supported by Esther Lawton and Lynn Bouchier from the Dance Department, who have teamed up with Carrie Mueller from Performing Arts, Jenny Wade from the SU and Steven Thomas from the Performing Arts Society to invite students from the Film, Fashion and Fine Arts departments to also take part and for them in turn to promote the project to any other creative students who want to be involved. 

dreamthinkspeak's site-responsive installation / performance: Absent

On Wednesday 21st October 2015, there will be a coach trip to experience Absent, a site-responsive performance realised by pioneers working in this field: dreamthinkspeak.

The work has simulated a Hotel in Shoreditch Townhall, London and, along with a very special guest, performers appear to be stewards and hotel workers. Spectators are taken on a journey into the past of the central character, Margaret de Beaumont, whom we first meet in a low-budget version of the Hotel.

We explore the actual history of the building, investigating architectural features and anomalies, but we are also taken on an experiential, kaleidoscopic journey into time-looped video, which appears in models, on walls and, in one memorable instance, in the caste-iron oven that originally was used to cooked food.

Throughout the installation, we meet ghosts of Margaret de Beaumont, who has inhabited the Hotel since the 1950s and is reluctant to leave.

The trip is aimed primarily at 2nd year students who study site-responsive performance, but will be opened to 3rd & 1st years closer to the time.

MACDEATH at the Camden Fringe Festival

Our students already take their first steps in the professional theatre world:
Glow Worm Theatre Company was formed by Jenny Wade, Ben Rogers, Steph Dacre, Tom Ramsay, Laura Halfon and Josh Hayes as part of their final year Advanced Production module. Together they devised the hugely entertaining and imaginative Macdeath, and performed it not only at Bucks New University but also in the Etcetera Theatre in Camden, London.

Their performance was so successful that they are doing it all again: The Etcetera Theatre has invited them to perform Macdeath as part of the Camden Fringe Festival.
So, catch them in Camden on August 4th and 5th, at 10pm, with tickets costing £7.50 / £5 only!
You can get tickets via this link:
http://www.camdenfringe.com/detailact.php?acts_id=270

Well done, Jenny, Ben, Steph, Tom, Laura and Josh!

Some pictures of our final year performance in London

Me, myself and I was a showcase of some of our final year students' dissertation work and saw their first venture into the professional world of theatre. After a long day setting up the theatre and setting up the technical requirements for the performances, the students (or rather, ex-students) successfully performed to a full house. Well done, everyone, and many thanks to our technicians Josh and Joe and the Courtyard Theatre for making the evening happen. We are already looking forward to the next one next year :)