HANSEL AND GRETEL
Platform, Glasgow - 10 - 24 December 2011


Image by Lucy Munro


Platform presents well loved traditional folk tale and festive favorite Hansel and Gretel...with a twist!

Our unique take on this production will delight audiences of all ages, combining music, storytelling and quirky characters to transport you to a magical and sparkling world filled with houses made of sweets, a witch who always thinks with her belly, helpful (and not so helpful!) woodland creatures and of course our heroes Hansel and Gretel.

Can they defeat the witch and find their way back through the woods? Well, with Gretel's love of metal (the music, not the stuff cutlery is made of silly) and Hansel's super-excellent technical abilities what can possibly go wrong ...

Join us to find out!

www.platform-online.co.uk

Box office: 0141 276 9696 (Option 1)


Director / Writer / Co-Designer
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YOU SUFFER, BUT WHY?

August 2011, Summerhall and Groundwork Arts Festival Closing party, Summerhall, Edinburgh
February 2011, Sound Thought Festival, The Arches, Glasgow
August 2010, Brian Lobel's CRUISING FOR ART, Forest Fringe
August 2010, HighTide Arts Club

Further dates to be announced.

YOU SUFFER, BUT WHY? is an eight minute encounter, created in response to Napalm Death's 1.3 second Song 'You Suffer', in which the audience member becomes Director and Designer of a 1.3 second performance starring Xana Marwick.

View a short animation of You Suffer, But Why? here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_FV4BuZW-Y



Photo by Lucy Munro

Please contact Xana Marwick for a promoters pack and touring information.

Creator, Performer, Director.
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WE ARE ALL JUST HUMAN BEINGS AT DIFFERENT STAGES IN OUR LIVES
21 June, Platform, an NTS Five Minute Theatre Performance
Developed work to be presented as a response to PUSH by Curious Seed in April 2012


Photo by Nadia Ben Said

We Are All Just Human Beings At Different Stages In Our Lives is a multi artform performance project created at Platform, Glasgow which continues its development exploring ways of making art across the generations and across experience from novice to more established artists.

We aim to create a manifesto for how we wish things were between elders, adults, young people and children.

Watch a film of the live performance here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjIjBNZ9srg

www.platform-online.co.uk
www.curious-seed.co.uk
www.fiveminutetheatre.com


Performer / Director / Co-Creator
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BATON

Work in progress performance 28 October, Imaginate Autumn Exchange, created in association with the Lyceum Theatre Company

Baton is currently in further development with dates to follow.



Photo by David Tinto.


How does the notion of achievement affect how, when and if we grow up?

Baton fuses energetic and playful choreography with true testimonial accounts of experiences, spoken with honesty into a microphone. Baton leads you into the performance and lets you walk along a maze of coloured basketball court lines on the floor as you try to find your way to the right place in the room. Baton hits the central nervous system with live drumming right next to your body and makes you wonder ‘is it really OK for me to be here? Isn’t this just a little bit too anarchic for me?’ Baton is your first gig. Baton makes you wear a coloured wrist band and tells you where to go. Baton makes you laugh and recognise yourself and your awkward moments. Baton makes you feel part of something exciting and courageous. Baton reminds you of how it feels to be lonely and alone.

Baton is performed by teenagers. For you.

“winning is participating!”. National Baton Twirling Association (USA)

Baton was longlisted for the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award 2011.

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THE MARSHMALLOW TEST
An on-going project-in-process

Scratch night, Live Theatre Newcastle - July 2011
Residency Dance base, Edinburgh - June 2011
Shunt, London - August 2009
Forest Fringe, Edinburgh - August 2009
Head's Up, Dance Base, Edinburgh - August 2008



Photo by Katy Wilson.


In the 1960s, a group of four-year olds were tested by being given a marshmallow and promised another only if they could wait 20 minutes before eating the first one.

The Marshmallow Test is Stadium Rock’s ongoing project in progress, themed around the notion of ‘deferred gratification’ and success, specifically relating to the fascinating ‘Marshmallow Experiment’ originally conducted by Walter Mischel at Stanford University. Aiming to find new ways to respond to the astonishing findings of this experiment.


'Over 25 minutes in duration, performers Xana Marwick and Katy Wilson, alongside electronic musician Dougal Marwick, recreate the test in a work-in-progress that's already a fluffy pink confection of a show.' (The Herald)



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Contact: mail[at]mynameisxana[dot]co[dot]uk