Performers Needed!

[Or Maybe Not]

a performance collective from

Central Saint Martins
College of Art and Design, London,
in association with ASFA, will be presenting

A Few Ways to Remember in BIOS
on 27-30 May and 3-6 June.

We require male and female actors of different ages with good English.
Auditions will be held on Tuesday 27th and Wednesday 28th April near Monastiraki.

Contact: or.maybe.not.athens@gmail.com for your audition time and further details!

Howard

Howard, a factory worker working with scrap metal all day -making a robot.

characters: Lilith

The tales spin along, of the woman Howard once loved, Lilith, who went missing and was never found

characters: Elisabeth

and Elizabeth, an older version of Howard's mother who mourns him, as he imagines her.

characters: Lisa

Howard's mother, Lisa, who worked long nights whilst keeping her son away from the dirt and grime of the world around him.

characters: Noora

Professor Pip's wife Noora, once a curator at the museum of Oriental textiles, who slowly slips into Alzheimer’s.

characters: Professor Pip

old Professor Pip, a professor of mythology who is, unnervingly obsessed with the female form

Howard & the characters

Devised and presented as a performance installation, Lightbox is a peep into the worlds that Howard, a factory worker conjures up, as he sits working with scrap metal all day.
The characters, played by the six performance artists who collaborate on this project, disclose identities created in Howard’s mind. Τhe rooms they inhabit give voice to their stories, memories and exaggerated manifestations as he thinks them up. The characters are real people from his life, however his tales of them dramatize, stretch and shift times, places and resemblances to make his own.
He thinks of his mother, Lisa, who worked long nights whilst keeping her son away from the dirt and grime of the world around him. And of Elizabeth, who mourns him, as he imagines her. The tales spin along, of the woman he once loved, Lilith, who went missing and was never found while his mind traces back old Professor Pip, a professor of mythology who is, unnervingly obsessed with the female form while he has no interest in his wife Noora, once a curator at the museum of Oriental textiles, who slowly slips into Alzheimer’s.
The performance piece, comes alive from the installation, from Tuesday to Thursday at 8-9 pm and on Sundays at 7-8 pm. Each character and his world develops as a continuing narrative over the installed period at TAF, from the 15th of April to the 6th of May 2010.

Howard and the Robot

Almost there...

We've moved into TAF and are working hard to get everything set up and ready to go for our official opening night of lightbox this Thursday 15th April.

From 15th April onwards we will be performing a few nights a week, developing the sets and narrative, and generally developing the piece for our run in BIOS at the end of May/beginning of June.

We're working in the space most days from 1-6/7pm, so come see the work in progress and keep checking out our blog for more info on performance times and dates!

Character development...

We're Here!

Hi everyone!

We are [Or.Maybe.Not]:

Fiona Carey (Ireland)

Thomas Dutton (UK)

Aimi Gdula (UK)

Hsuan Ku (Taiwan)

Adele Han Li (USA)

Payal Wadhwa (India)

We are very excited to be in Athens, with its beautiful architecture and history, and to be producing two performance pieces here, in TAF (The Art Foundation) and BIOS, both very inspiring spaces.

We've spent the last two weeks on the lovely island of Hydra and in Athens hatching an initial idea for our first piece lightbox, an installation performance which will officially open in TAF on April 15.

lightbox is an experiment in methods of creating new performance work. The piece centers around 6 main characters who inhabit 6 rooms of the TAF site. During the course of our 3 week residency at TAF, we will each embody one of these 6 personas and in the process, discover who they are, how they relate to one another and the impact they have on each other's lives. The piece blurs the lines between memories, imagined realities, projected futures and the actuality of modern existence.

These characters and their developed histories and worlds will then be the basis for a second performance at BIOS at the end of May.

Keep an eye on our blog for information about the development of lightbox at TAF as well as for info on actor auditions and other opportunities to participate!

Thanks!