Kate Flatt Projects Presents Soul Play

Renowned choreographer and movement director Kate Flatt brings her intimate and moving dance theatre piece Soul Play to London and the East of England one last time in March 2010.Kate Flatt Projects in association with Watford Palace Theatre present Soul Play. Soul Play tells the story of a young man who awakens in a no-man’s land: a zone without time or place, which he does not understand. Alone and afraid, he begins putting questions into the void, trying to determine what is required of him. An enigmatic female figure appears, a woman who doesn’t speak but uses gesture, touch and dance to communicate with him. Through their encounter, he is forced to recall how he got to this place, and through his relationship with her he begins to discover a fleeting answer of sorts – a sense of transference.

Drawing on Eastern-European theatre traditions and ideas around rites of passage, Soul Play is an effortless fusion of dance and theatre, which asks us to reconsider the notion of the soul and its place in our contemporary secular culture.

‘Extraordinary theatrical vitality’ The Guardian

‘Speaks to the soul of all who want to hear it’ The Sunday Times

Soul Play was devised & directed by renowned choreographer Kate Flatt (Les Miserables, Dr Faustus Young Vic, Peter Grimes Opera North, Three Sisters, and Dream Play at National Theatre) with a script by Anna Reynolds (Skin Hunger, Ring Road Tales and the new opera Push). Performed by actor Sam Curtis (Three Tall Women Oxford Playhouse, Blood Wedding BBC Radio), and dancer Joy Constantinides (Arc Dance Company, Tilted Productions, The Red Balloon ROH2).  Design is by TMA Award-winning Chloe Lamford (Kreutzer Sonata at The Gate, Small Miracle Colchester Mercury, Magic Flute at English Touring Opera) and Lighting is by Anna Watson (Sus at the Young Vic, Twelfth Night at the Unicorn)

Duration: 50 minutes
Suitable for everybody aged 13+

All venues are hosting post performance discussions – please check details with box office

2010 Spring Tour

10 & 11 March 2010 at 8pm
Watford Palace Theatre
www.watfordpalacetheatre.co.uk
01923 225671

27 March 2010 at 2.45pm & 7.45pm
Mercury Theatre (Studio), Colchester
www.mercurytheatre.co.uk
01206 573948

30 March 2010 at 8pm
The Place Theatre, London, WC1
www.theplace.org.uk
020 7121 1100

Soul Play was commissioned in 2008 by the Mercury Theatre, Colchester and Trestle Arts Base, St Albans, and funded by Arts Council England (East) and The Junction, Cambridge. This 2010 revival is supported by Arts Council England, the Rayne Foundation, and Watford Palace Theatre.

www.kateflatt.com