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Trevor Goose and his Dark Night of Lights (Talking Birds)
Where: Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster & Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
When: Lancacster: 8-9 December; WAC: 12-14 & 19-21 Dec 2008
IS IT A GIG? IS IT A PANTO? IS IT A MISJUDGED DANISH CABARET?
Trevor Goose and His Dark Night of Lights attempts to tell the bleak, yet moving, tale of The Little Match Girl, but internal difficulties with the band - Hans Christian and the Andersons as well as with a Danish tourism officer and a missing celebrity mean the evening soon turns into the painfully amusing spectacle of a cabaret coming face to face with its own dark failings. Ideal for those who want their festive entertainment skewed and a little bit heartbreaking.
Premiered at Taylor John's House, Coventry, December 2007.
THE BAND...
Piano and musical direction Derek Nisbet
Bass clarinet Kate Luxmoore
Accordion Karen Street
Percussion Matt Green
Sound Jonathan Blackford
Music composed and arranged by Derek Nisbet
30.07.08
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ARC (Ockham's Razor)
Where: UK & Belgium
When: Sept - Nov 2008
ARC is an aerial dance performance by Ockham's Razor with music by Derek Nisbet that tells the story of three people set adrift on a raft. Suspended in the air their raft is too small to support them all - someone has to go. Premiered at the Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London as Part of the London International Mime Festival, Jan 2007 and toured extensively in 2008. Produced by Turtle Key Arts.
"Derek Nisbet's evocative, elemental sound score" (The Times)
27th September Gemeente Overpelt, Belgium
30th September Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham
1st & 2nd October The Nuffield Theatre, Southampton
10th October Playbox Theatre, Warwick
27th October Mumford Theatre, Cambridge
28th October Castle Theatre, Wellingborough
29th & 30th Oct The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
6th & 7th November Stratford Circus, London
26th November Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield
10.09.08
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Intimate History
Where: New Europen Theatre Festival, Moscow, Russia - Ermolova Memorial House
When: 13 - 16 November 2008
You choose from a menu of six shows and Jake Oldershaw (voice) and Derek Nisbet (piano) perform it for you and you alone. Co-written with Craig Stephens, this show has recently been heard as Dr Pfeffer's Lonely Hearts Club on BBC Radio 4 and has been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe as part of the British Council's International showcase, at Battersea Arts Centre, Birmingham Rep Theatre and Lichfield Festival. At Wawick Arts Centre as part of Bite Size and at Kinsale Arts Week 2008 the show was performed in its new "cabaret" format with live band.
Performances in Moscow as part of the New European Theatre Festival are at the former house (now a museum) of Moscow actress Maria Ermolova (1853-1928).
'A delightful nugget of theatrical waywardness and invention.' The Guardian
'One of the strangest, most intimate productions you are ever likely to witness.' The Stage
To Be King, recorded by BBC Radio 4, performed by Jake Oldershaw (voice), Derek Nisbet (piano) and Matt Sharp ('cello)
30.07.08
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