Tag: Dickie Beau

UK
www.dickiebeau.com

A versatile actor and artist, Dickie Beau has worked as an actor in diverse contexts, from Shakespeare to pantomime to experimental physical theatre, and has played leading roles on major stages, including London’s National Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, New York’s Public Theatre, and Salzburg Festival. Most recently, he played Oscar Wilde opposite Sir Simon Russell Beale as A.E. Housman in Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love at Hampstead Theatre.

Dickie is also known for breathing new life into lip syncing through his distinctive playback performances, which have been widely acclaimed. Described as “Theatre’s master of lip sync” (The Guardian), his solo work is considered unlike that of any other practitioner on the landscape of performance, with The Times distinguishing him as “peerless,” and WhatsOnStage calling him “one of our great living artists.”

Dickie’s solo live art/theatre shows have been presented at a number of festivals internationally, including Melbourne Festival, Perth Festival, Brighton Festival, Cork Midsummer Festival, Crossing the Line (New York), FADO Performance Art Centre (Toronto), City of Women Festival (Ljubljana), Outburst (Belfast), Push (Vancouver), Queer Notions (Dublin), Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Under the Radar (New York), and Fusebox (Austin, Texas). His work has also been presented at major UK venues including the Almeida Theatre, Southbank Centre, Barbican Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Soho Theatre, and The Theatre Royal Bath. 

Curated and presented by FADO Performance Art Centre in the context of Progress

Dickie Beau presents a poetic performance of peculiar personas. LOST in TRANS takes Dickie’s sensational multimedia aesthetic to hallucinatory new heights. Continuing his shtick of using playback, in which he ‘channels’ voices he sees as being misplaced, misrepresented or misunderstood, Dickie breathes new life into found sound, ‘re-writing’ audio artifacts and playing them back through his body to become a live performing archive of the missing.

Presenting a compelling constellation of vivid characters inspired by cultural antiquity and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, LOST in TRANS is an off-road trip through the cultural archives. Cyclops, the one-eyed giant, becomes a third eye through which we view the world anew, including a radical re-visioning of Echo, the Nymph, of whom all that remained when she died of a broken heart was the sound of her voice…

Phenomenal talent… a powerful and moving artist… breathtaking.
—Time Out, London

Dickie Beau is the closest this country has to a genuine medium, an auteur of the airwaves, who can put flesh onto recorded sound in a manner both gripping and disturbing.
—This is Cabaret, London

CREDITS
Conceived and performed by: Dickie Beau
Producer: Sally Rose (UK)
Dramaturg: Julia Bardsley (UK)
Lighting design: Marty Langthorne
Sound design: Will Saunders (UK, Toronto)
Video filming and post-production consultant: Lukas Demgenski
Lighting operator: Nao Nagai (UK, Toronto)
Video consultant: Gillian Tan (UK)
Video operator: Aaron Pollard (Toronto)
Pegasus: Stephen Lawson (Toronto)
Production manager: Deborah Lim (Toronto)

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LOST in TRANS was originally a Southbank Centre commission supported by a Jardin d’Europe contemporary dance award and a residency at Cullberg Ballet, Stockholm and has been presented at: Southbank Centre in London, Contact in Manchester, Homotopia Festival, Liverpool, Artsadmin, London, and City of Women Festival, Ljubljana (curated as part of the Live Art Development Agency’s Just Like a Woman programme).

Progress, an international festival of performance and ideas is presented in partnership by SummerWorks Performance Festival and The Theatre Centre. The festival is collectively curated and produced by a series of Toronto-based companies, operating within a contemporary performance context. Progress 2018 is curated by: SummerWorks Performance Festival, The Theatre Centre, Anandam Dancetheatre, FADO Performance Art Centre, Little Black Afro Theatre Company, Toronto Dance Community Love-In, and Volcano Theatre.