Peepolykus are currently beavering away getting a range of new proposals and ideas off the ground.
In June we head up to Leeds where we’re running a project called the Ionian Enchantment at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, as part of a season of new ideas called Transform
Across the 2 week transform season we will work with writers directors and actors to create a new performance everyday which has been inspired by a scientific notion or theory. We will also be premiering scenes from a new play John is writing for a Peepolykus young company to tour in the future. The plan is for The Ionian Enchantment to be the beginning of a bigger science inspired project that we develop with The West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Please email us if you would like to be involved.
As part of this project, Peepolykus have curated the following;
- a free fact to fiction writing workshop with BBC Comedy Exec Steve Canny.
- a talk and discussion with Jeff Forshaw – professor of theoretical physics at Manchester University and currently writing his second book with Prof Brian Cox.
- a talk and discussion with Carole Jahme. Carole has a master’s degree in evolutionary psychology and is the author of Beauty and the Beast: Woman, Ape and Evolution. In 2004 she won the Wellcome Trust’s Award for Communication of Science to the Public.
And coming up…..
Wed 14th June a talk and discussion with Ben Moor – physicist turned comedian, actor, writer responsible for A Supercollider For The Family and other pieces of unique and inspired genius.
In July we team up with Sean Holmes, Joel Horwood and Spymokey for a version of Jekyll and Hyde (kind of) commissioned for LATITUDE FESTIVAL
We are also working on a large scale outdoor surprise for 2012, an intervention project in schools, development ideas for a mid scale co-production with Bristol Old Vic and Liverpool Playhouse, the inaugural project for The Kevin Spacey Foundation – Richard’s Rampage – and a new idea for Radio 4 (following our 2010 Christmas Special Marley was Dead).
The BBC comedy commissioned sketches we developed with producers THE CORNER SHOP are now available to view on-line HERE .