Reckless Sleepers

Schrdinger

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Schrdinger Reckless Sleepers 2011

Contents
Biographies Publicity Copy Sample Direct Mail Sample Press Release Thoughts Publication Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8

Contacts
Reckless Sleepers
Kerkstraat 261 9050 Gent Belgium Tel: +44 115 714 2171 Mobile: +32 473 928158 www.reckless-sleepers.co.uk info@reckless-sleepers.co.uk

Credits
Performed by Mole Wetherell Leen Dewilde Alex Covell Leentje Van De Cruys Kevin Egan

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Production

Lisa Mattocks Jack Dale Neill Warhurst

Artistic Director Company Producer

Mole Wetherell Steve Slater

Schrdinger is funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Schrdinger is part of a development project called Entropy that supports the development of new work by new artists.

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Mole Wetherell founder and artistic director of Reckless Sleepers, theatre director and designer a regular visiting artist at many of the UK universities that focus on contemporary theatre practice. Leen Dewilde creative member of Reckless Sleepers, a visual artist, dance maker and teacher currently making a touring piece with young dancers in Belgium. Alex Covell Is a performer in the Club Reckless project this is not America part 3 Club Reckless creates projects with large groups of young artists typically 18 - 30 Leentje Van de Cruys Belgian artist and theatre maker living in the UK making solo performances and installations worked for Fabuleus performing, writing and directing for younger artists. Kevin Egan Theatre maker and academic based in the North West. He was the sound and lighting designer for With my head in the. Lisa Mattocks Artist and technician who joined Reckless Sleepers as a graduate trainee a member of Trace Theatre Company. Jack Dale Technician who joined Reckless Sleepers as a graduate trainee. Neill Warhurst - Lecturer and Technician who joined Reckless Sleepers in 2000 with in the shadow Steve Slater was senior producer at Tramway in Glasgow, he is the Creative producer for Reckless Sleepers and Unlimited projects.

Company History Founded in Nottingham in 1989, Anglo-Belgian company Reckless Sleepers is a creative organisation dedicated to the production, presentation and development of innovative and experimental visual art and performance. Reckless Sleepers have produced many highly original performance pieces. The company have created educational programmes for a range of different groups including The National Museum of Scotland. They have a committed audience both in the UK and in Europe. Artistic Statement Reckless Sleepers create original theatre pieces installation projects and interventions for theatres, galleries, museums, site and seasonally specific projects

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that both entertain and challenge its audiences, viewers and participants. Reckless Sleepers produce works from a basis of research and development; where ideas are central, projects are installed rather than presented, mistakes are embraced, ideas are given a chance, and a second chance, and pushed so that they become uncomfortable to do, uncomfortable to listen to and uncomfortable to watch.

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Publicity Copy
Short version 72 words
Reckless Sleepers go back and forward in time recreating one of its most celebrated performances Schrdinger. On stage is a box with hatches and doors. It can be the box where the cat is locked up or an experimental chamber. The chamber is populated by a group of experimenters / artists, trying to conduct research into immeasurable theories. Schrdinger is about thought experiments, cats, Ren Magritte, love, time, mathematics, observations, truth lies and alcohol.

Brochure version 95 words

In 1933 Erwin Schrodinger won the Nobel Prize for his contribution to Quantum Mechanics. He theorized a box in which a cat exists as living and dead at the same time. In 1998 Reckless Sleepers built that box and now over a decade later, they are climbing back inside In one of the companys most celebrated performance pieces the impossible is probable: truth and illusion are inseparable. Laws are made bent then broken. Its a visually mesmerizing performance that sways between question and answer, chaos and order, what we can measure and what we cant.

Scientific version 116 words

The physicist Schrdinger found out that light particles are in different states of being at the same time. Only when an observation is made do particles collapse into just one state. The cat in the box illustrates this paradox: a cat is placed in a box with an unopened bottle of poison gas. Whether or not the bottle opens and the cat is poisoned depends on whether a radioactive atom decays which will trigger the poison to be released. According to the principles of quantum theory, until the box is opened the atom is both decayed and not decayed at the same time. So the cat must be both dead and alive at the same time.

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Age: 16+ Duration: 1 hour.

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Direct Mail
Schrdinger - Reckless Sleepers Spring Tour 2011 Date
Dear Friend, From the 30th October 02nd November internationally acclaimed Anglo-Belgian Performance Company Reckless Sleepers will bring their touring production of Schrdinger to A.E. Harris in Birmingham. By the end, the mind is giddy and apparently boggled by the clever conundrums that are laid out but not necessarily solved by Reckless Sleepers. Drawing on the thoughts and experiments of physicist Erwin Schrdinger, the company create marvellously bizarre scenarios that confront notions of definition and perception, and challenge the rules and conventions we apply to everything from mathematics to emotions, concluding the very belief that we exist and know the difference between truth and lie. - The Glasgow Herald In a place where the question and the answer keep changing, the captive cast sets about trying to fill in the blanks in 60 minutes of darkly comic, sensory, experimental theatre, physically demanding for the guinea-pig players, mentally taxing and visually stimulating for the audience. Yorkshire evening post Reckless Sleepers who in more than a thousand performances at this years Fringe in Edinburgh managed to do something out of the ordinary. - Jutarnji List Zagreb And you appeared out of nowhere, as if you had come straight out of the ground and stood right in front of me looking harder and harder past me through me and away past me into some other time you looked angry and bitter or perhaps I wanted you to look that way performance text The box is an experimental chamber, a cloud chamber, a crucible, an alchemical experiment, a television a radio a tuning device. It is so blank it calls other rooms into being. It is a psychological test to see what room you create on the blankness -performance text

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To book tickets please go to http://www.reckless-sleepers.co.uk/calendar.php For more information about Schrdinger or any of the other Reckless Sleepers projects please go to our web site - www.reckless-sleepers.co.uk. We look forward to seeing you at the show,

Mole Wetherell

Press Release
From 30th October 02nd November internationally acclaimed Anglo-Belgian Performance Company Reckless Sleepers will bring their touring production of Schrdinger to A.E. Harris in Birmingham. Mole Wetherell, Artistic Director, says: I couldnt leave the project Schrdinger alone over the past 10 years we have looked at the project again and again, five years after the last performance of Schrdingers Box we spent two weeks reexamining the piece, looking for holes or gaps in the structure, reworking the processes that wed used, this research ultimately led to the publication Trial, which itself reignited interest in the performance, and so 5 years after the launch of Trial we present the piece again. To call it a remake would be wrong thats impossible the new version Schrdinger works with a different group of artists Reckless Sleepers have changed the way in which they perform the structure the box the 6th performer as it is called is a constant the doors, hatches, walls exits and entrances are in the same place. But the people who occupy it will have changed like the spaces that we perform it in, the cities that we visit will have gone through a transformation. Buildings have been altered or upgraded some of the places that we originally presented the project in no longer exists have moved or changed their name but the central themes of this performance are still resonant we play with time and memory the memory of what you just saw and for some the memory of what happened over 10 years ago. I get asked a lot why, why are we restaging this old piece? The list of reasons increases, as work on this new version progresses, on the top of the list is that I believe that it is a good piece of work that I am proud of being one of the artists that were involved in its conception. The original creative team for Schrdingers Box were Mole Wetherell, Daniel

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Belasco Rodgers, Sarah Dawson, Tim Ingram Marie Fitzpatrick and Simon MacColl.

Notes to Editor

To book tickets please contact info@reckless-sleepers.co.uk For more information, interviews or images please contact Mole Wetherell on +44 115 714 2171 or info@reckless-sleepers.co.uk For more information about Schrdinger and Reckless Sleepers please go to www.reckless-sleepers.co.uk

Founded in Nottingham in 1989, Anglo-Belgian performance group Reckless Sleepers is a creative company dedicated to the production, presentation and development of innovative and experimental visual art and performance Schrdinger is funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Reckless Sleepers are regularly funded by Arts Council England.

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Thoughts
When you have to tell a lie, there are times when that is necessary the truth is fixed in your mind the lie is based on a truth the truth and the lie co-exists simultaneously, the thought, the image that thought produces and the words that describe that lie occupy the same space and exist at the same time. 1 For instance if I say I would like a glass of red wine even though I prefer white a glass of wine whether that be the red or white variety exists as an image in my mind its a familiar shape a glass of red wine the image the table on which the glass is placed, the room in which the table sits the atmosphere the sounds, the people who occupy that moment gets fuller and busier the longer I imagine telling this lie. I would like a glass of red wine please but I dont 2 In Magrittes painting of a pipe we see the title of the painting within the painting, a painted set of words that read this is not a pipe the image however is of a pipe but its not a pipe its a piece of canvas painted in a way to look like the image of a pipe Magritte tells a lie and the truth at the same time. 3 When making the original performance of Schrodinger in the late 20th Century we tried to understand the complex nature of things, we learnt that light exhibits both wave and particle properties. We learnt about thought experiments methods used in trying to articulate complicated ideas, we thought about time, and wanting to make something that wasnt linear in that every event had a consequence on what was presented afterwards so that the logic would be exposed in an arrow of time that travelled in many directions. In 2006 we looked at the project again looking for holes in the structure looking for gaps in the piece threads that werent conclusive 5 years later we opened the box again this time with a different set of people trying to be someone else learning something as if they were someone else from a different time the paradox continued. 4 And after all this time and all of the different experiments in trying to find ways of putting this piece away it started all over again. 5 1. Based on the original description of the project

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2. Having to tell a lie about alcohol. 3. Magritte This is not a pipe and the Reckless Sleeper 4. A memory of what we were doing 5. How the project might be received in the future.

Publication

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Trial. A study of the devising process in Reckless Sleepers Schrodingers Box. Paper back Andrew Brown and Mole Wetherell Performance Art 978-1-84102-170-6

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Trial is a unique and detailed study of Reckless Sleepers, one of the UK's leading experimental performance companies. Using image and text it explores a multiplicity of connections between ideas and practice, as well as diverse processes used by the company in the devising of their celebrated work 'Schrdinger's Box'. 150 word summary Reckless Sleepers are one of the foremost exponents of devised theatre in the UK.

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Their use of process and varied models for devising and developing material are central to their work. The book is designed as a working document for academics and practitioners, as well as for people with a wider interest in creativity. Within it, creative director Mole Wetherell and artist/academic Andrew Brown identify particular strategies the company have devised or adapted in the process of generating performance and other artistic pedagogical outcomes. The book follows particular ideas and pieces of research and demonstrates how, subject to diverse methods and approaches; new ways of working can be developed. For more information on this publication and documentation please contact shop@reckless-sleepers.co.uk

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