COMING UP
The only festival where wrestling meets culinary theatre, underground cinema collides with silent opera and folk fuses with hip hop. All topped off with pulsing electronic beats. COMING UP is two weeks of events, gigs and performances from some of the brightest talent around. It’s free, it’s fresh, it’s coming…
February 21 – March 4 2011
Debut London, Weston St, London SE1 3RR
To book tickets, and for the full festival line up, visit: http://www.ideastap.com/comingup
WRESTING, THEATRE, FILM, MUSIC, OPERA, ART & FINE DINING COLLIDE FOR A STRICT TWO WEEK RUN IN THE VAULTS OF DEBUT LONDON PROGRAMMED BY SOME OF THE FRESHEST CREATIVES AROUND
Debut London, Weston St, London SE1 3RR – February 21 – March 4 2011
UNDERGROUND CINEMA
Presented by Preethi Mavahalli
Preethi is a script editor and producer who recently worked on BAFTA-nominated Shifty and Ben Drew aka Plan B’s directorial debut Ill Manors. Currently working in the development team at Film4, she last year won an Ideas Fund Shorts award to make a video for Manchester-based band Crooked Rooks. She continues to work internationally on a varied slate of projects including short films, a stereoscopic 3D short and music promos.
UNDERGROUND CINEMA will be a unique showcase of up-and-coming film talent as well as movie classics in a uniquely evocative screening room fully equipped with an exclusive Courvoisier punch bar, providing the perfect accompaniment to a night of cinema.
22, 23, 24, 28 FEBRUARY 7.30PM
26, 27 FEBRUARY 2PM
4 MARCH 9.30PM
Tickets FREE
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BRITWRES-FEST
Presented by Jamie Lewis Hadley
A Wrestling Spectacular! Jamie is bringing together some of the most exciting sports entertainers in the country in one ring with incredible projections, lighting, sound and pyrotechnics. This show will put the spectacle back into one of our country’s most treasured past times. Think spandex; think suplex; think super villains.
BRITWRES-FEST also offers a live feed broadcast on the night at Debut. All tickets include an after show event with Arthur Cauty who will premiere his documentary ‘ Hard Knocks’ followed by an opportunity to mingle with the wrestlers and other V.I.P.’s.
21, 22 FEBRUARY 7pm
Tickets FREE
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SILENT OPERA
Presented by Daisy Evans
Daisy Evans is the Founding Director of King’s Opera, and the Waistcoat Company. She is currently working as an assistant to the Staff Directors at the Royal Opera House. SILENT OPERA is an interactive high-tech production of Purcell’s ’Dido and Aeneas’. The audience will experience the production through headphones while following the frantic singers around the exciting and invigorating underground space.
1 MARCH 7.30pm & 9.30pm
3 MARCH 9.30pm
Tickets FREE
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OLD ROOTS NEW ROUTES
Presented by Cherry Franklin
Hip hop and folk collide with leading artists from both genres brought together by Cherry Franklin – a performer, director and producer. Hip hop artist Dizraeli, spoken word performer Polarbear and MC Jam Baxter will join folk musicians Lisa Knapp, Sam Carter and Anna-Helena McLean in a three day collaboration. The new material will be premiered on the 25th Feb at Debut – a stunning underground venue. Expect film screenings, live graffiti art and raw stories with old tunes.
25 FEBRUARY 6pm
Tickets FREE
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ELECTRIC TUNNELS
Presented by Alex Le Roux
ELECTRIC TUNNELS is a showcase of talented, young up-and-coming musicians in one of London’s most infamous underground venues. Debut (formally SE1) will play host to the hottest electronic acts Britain has to offer. A whole line-up of DJ’s and live acts will play across two stages into the early hours of the morning. Confirmed artists: Picturebook, Flashworx, The Neon Lights (DJ set) and Graphics. More acts to follow.
24 FEBRUARY 8.30pm
Tickets FREE
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CIVIL UNREST
By Ben Ellis
Presented by Spike Laurie
Ben Ellis’ daring new play brings together the unlikely dishes of political unrest and sumptuous pre-theatre dining in a mêlée of food, film, photography and political fervour but in an era of fine dining, will we find our civil unrest a little hard to swallow?
Visual artists Marc Vallée, Brian David Stephens and Kennard Phillips work with House of Jonn, creatives in residence at The Hospital Club, to provide a feast for the eyes, while chef Mark Jankel serves up haute cuisine slammer food and contraband Courvoisier is smuggled in for dinner ticket holders.
2 – 3 MARCH 7.15pm
4 MARCH 1pm & 7.15pm
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Exclusive meal deal tickets available £25.00 http://store.ambassadortickets.com/gateway.aspx?E=N&QL=S11045|VOVD|GShowDatesCombo.aspx
COALITION
Presented by Rachel Tyson
Coalition Theatre Company aims to pull together the most exciting young theatre makers from London and New York to explore and produce original and edgy new work. This double bill looks at the unique modern pressures of urban life, examining dark and surreal experiences of ordinary people living in extraordinary cities.
Midlife Crisis
Written by Josh Koenigsberg
Grief
Written by David Kantounas
Coalition was founded by OVNV UK/US Exchange artists.
2 – 3 MARCH 12pm
Tickets FREE
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EAT YOUT HEART OUT
Presented by Kindle Theatre
A theatrical banquet at the end of the world.
Do you remember the heat, the famine, the desolation, no fresh food, no fresh meat? Do you remember the taste of the kidneys, the liver, the lungs, the brain, the heart of a…
In the last remaining corner of the human world, three cooks are summoned to create a celebratory meal using only the carcass of their once great kitchen. Some intrigued guests, perhaps the last, have arrived for dinner… but what to eat in the aftermath of catastrophe? EAT YOUR HEART OUT is a playful three-course performance banquet set to a Baroque-inspired music score. It mixes the leftovers of disaster with the ceremony of the dining room in an experience that invites the audience to literally eat the story. You can fast on the day to enhance your enjoyment and please note there is no vegetarian option.
.”..like Gormenghast meets Babette’s Feast, set in operatic Flemish painting.” Total Theatre
Suitable for 18yrs+
26 – 27 FEBRUARY 8pm
Tickets £15
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Coming Up – conceived and funded by Ideas Tap in partnership with Old Vic New Voices.
Supported by Courvoisier.