21 FOR 21

Production Claw
Venue The Jersey Arts Centre, St Helier, Jersey
Date Wednesday 21 October – Saturday 24 October 2009 @ 8pm
Director Daniel Austin
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Daniel Austin blogs at: www.onmakingtheatre.blogspot.com

E-mail Contact For more information contact enquiries@artscentre.je or to book call the box office on 01534 700444
About the play

The Jersey Arts Centre recently celebrated its 25th anniversary (1983-2008) and has been producing its own work since 2002.
Daniel Austin has been at the Centre since July 2001 and has directed 16 youtheatre productions, 3 full-scale theatre-in-education projects (which have toured to Guernsey, Sark, Germany and Corfu), and 3 community productions amidst a number of other performance projects. He was previously the Artistic Director at The Castle in Wellingborough and also created and developed the Edinburgh Festival Fringe piece, ‘apollo / dionysus’, for thedead between 2006 and 2008.
Daniel’s latest projects include: ‘outside / inside’ (which has been made, and is being developed, with the Jersey Arts Centre’s youtheatre) exploring death, the body and the various dialectics of space; ‘My Family and Other Stories’ - a series of fifteen-minute alfresco dramatisations animating the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust site for their 50th anniversary celebrations in 2009; and the world première of Craig Taylor’s ‘One Million Tiny Plays About Britain’, first published in the Guardian, and which perform at the Liberation Bus Station, Jersey, between 1-3 July 2009.
In his final term at the Welsh College of Music and Drama in 1988, Daniel played Noel Biledew in Howard Barker’s ‘Claw’: an awesome experience, physically, emotionally and politically. His interest in Barker lies in what Barker articulates in relation to: ‘the art of theatre’ which:

“… takes pain as its subject, not to exploit it for political ends, as a lesson in moral obligations but as an end in itself...”
“… is a rehearsal for death but more, a confession of ignorance, of the limits of knowledge…”
“… knows nothing. It relegates knowing to the theatre, the place of commodities. In place of this knowing, it affirms the integrity of fictions…”

The Jersey Arts Centre’s production of ‘Claw’ – An Odyssey – will promenade at St. James: a semi-converted church and performance space in St. Helier between 21-24 October as part of The Wrestling School’s ‘21 for 21’ anniversary project.

 

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Photo: The Homecoming, 2006
The Homecoming, 2006

Photo: Apollo/Dionysus 2008
Apollo/Dionysus 2008

Photos: BRUCE LIRON

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