We all had a great time seeing DryWrite presents: Joel Horwood at The Hospital Club last week. Joel’s one of our Creatives in Residence and is a fantastically talentedplaywright doing some really exciting things. Here are a fewpictures from the event and a review from Phil Willmott. Enjoy!

Image Credit – Suzie Blake

To read Phil Willmott’s review of the event please click ‘Read the rest of this entry’ below…

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DryWrite Presents: The Irreverence of Joel Horwood

Joel is one of the Hospital Club’s Creatives in Residence. He is currently working on a play for Paines Plough, an original television series for Cowboy / Channel 4 and Dick Whittington and His Cat for The Lyric Hammersmith (starting on Saturday). Joel has worked extensively with DryWrite and tonight represents a cross section of some of his collaborations with the company.

DryWrite give writers specific briefs to which they to respond to. These challenges put the audience at the heart of the event and explore theatre’s role in the modern world. They have collaborated with choreographers, journalists, musicians, scientists and fight directors to name just a few. They normally give writers the opportunity to present their work anonymously, allowing them to explore their own craft within a safe and stimulating environment. You can find out more about DryWrite at www.drywrite.com.

DryFight: Scrabble
The challenge from DryWrite: Write a scene that contains a fight and is designed to make an audience heckle. An exploration of violence and a gladiatorial extravaganza. Performed at The Tabernacle Theatre and Latitude 2009.

Tony –  Andy Barron
Mags -    Susan Vidler
Timmy -    David Hartley
Isy -    Gemma Soul

Fight choreographed by Bret Yount

Guilty: Viki
The challenge from DryWrite: Convince an audience to declare a violent criminal NOT GUILTY. In this case: Man Cannibalises A Member of His Family and Feeds Them to his Extended Family at a Wedding Reception. Performed at Latitude 2008.

Viki -    Danny Rigby

DanceRadio: Polly Brown
The challenge from DryWrite: Write a play to underscore a new piece of contemporary dance (choreographed by Ann Yee). Joel took this to be an opportunity to tell as much story as possible in a short period of time. Performed at The York Theatre Royal and Latitude 2010.

Man -    Robert Goodale

Funny Not Funny: Charlene
The challenge from DryWrite: Write something that tests the boundaries of comedy, when is something funny not funny?. Performed at The George Tavern 2008.

Charlene -   Jessica Knappett

Goodie / Baddie: The Wolf
The challenge from DryWrite: Convince and audience that the big bad wolf is not guilty of his crimes. Joel extended this piece with help from the RSC to begin to explore goodies and baddies in the modern day. Peformed at the Innocent Smoothie Festival in 2008 and the RSC in 2010.

The Wolf -   Joe Arkley

DryFight: Mates
The challenge from DryWrite: Write a scene that contains a fight and is designed to make an audience heckle. An exploration of violence and a gladiatorial extravaganza. Performed at The Tabernacle Theatre and Latitude 2009.

Mark -    Ian Bonar
Stu -    Richard Corgan

Directed by Ann Yee.

Voice of God -   Ferdy Roberts

Designer -   Amy Cook
Assistant Designer -  Natalie Price
Production Manager -  Laura Flowers
Assistant Director -  Kirsty Patrick-Ward

All pieces were directed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Vicky Jones the Artistic Directors of DryWrite.

Joel Horwood and DryWrite would like to thank The Bush Theatre, Lolo, Caz, The Studio Team and the CiR project at The Hospital Club for this opportunity and their enduring support.

As part of a stella line up of performers and music industry figures, Peter performed live at the Aldeburgh Music Tedx  towards the end of last year. Hosted by TED Music Director Thomas Dolby, with speakers including Grammy award-winner Imogen Heap, producer William Orbit, music journalist David Toop and renowned pianist Louis Lortie, the day included mind blowing talks and performances. TEDx events are based on those of world-famous conference organisers TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design), with whom TEDx organisers are affiliated.

Further extending his month of experimental audiovisual performance, Peter also formed part of a brand new collaboration between Tod Machover, Ben Bloomberg and United Visual Artists for the cutting edge performance Spheres & Splinters. Produced by Faster Than Sound, this ambisonic audio environment with an interactive laser light show, was based around a new piece of solo cello music written for Peter by Tod Machover. The performance explored the properties of acoustic and electronic music to create a unique experience for audiences at Snape, Suffolk and Kings Place, London.

Destiny has put together the pilot for ‘Gone too far’, a coming of age comedy based in Peckham based on Bola Agbaje’s Olivier award winning play. The first floor of the hospital club lent itself as rehearsal space for the film that in 2011 will be made into a full feature.

Tight Jeans was officially selected by the 2008 times BFI 52md London Film Festival where it was also voted the best short film by the Observer

AND here is another great film that she directed for Channel 4 THE FUTURE WAGs OF GREAT BRITIAN – i highly recommend it!

I can honestly say that, due to a childhood intolerance to “E Numbers”, I’ve never touched Red Bull before.

But this was different.

It was the only option. Fridges, shelves and rooms of the stuff.

You see, I was in Red Bull’s insanely amazing studios in south London all weekend, collaborating with the Red Bull Music Academy’s very own kidkanevil. We were tasked with producing a track, whatever we wanted, for two days. This is, actually, a lot harder than it sounds. Made harder by them having the worlds largest Pro Tools monitor – below – bear in mind that that’s a normal human head and the perspective is a little skewed… massive.

So, kidkanevil (aka Gerard) and I were emailing back and forth about themes, ideas, inspirations (which included rainbows, kittens and clouds. Very mature) and, in the end, decided that it was quicker to just shut up and do something. So we did.

92 channels of cello later, we were listening to “Mod Synth vs Cello”. We’re both, actually, very proud of it!

Lolo spent some of Saturday with us, and after picking through our sweetie stash, agreed to read some Victor Hugo poetry over the intro of the piece

We have to mix the track, but I’ll be performing it live at the next alt_classical on September 14th… nice and loud! All in all, a great weekend well spent, even supposing my caffeine levels were spiked higher than they probably have been before!

The brick series was House of Jonn reaction to the ‘RAW’ theme imposed by the Royal Academy of Arts for this years summer exhibition.

We were rejected….

Without sounding like whinny losers this was the reaction we were expecting and in a way played up to. The architecture room was co-ordinated by David ‘vitality, risk taking and a necessary sense of adventure’ Chipperfield.

We could not help but prod a little fun at ourselves and the theme by creating 4 very impractical and improbable brick types to live upto the RAW theme.

These included the acrylic Banana brick, Cock Arch brick, Wizard of Oz brick and the Recession proof brick. All were produced as editions of 25.

Description of something on the brick.The above images show the Wizard of Oz brick depicting a scene from the story of Dorothy and Toto on the yellow Brick road.

Something entertainging here

Above is the banana brick and below is the cock arch brick.

The Hospital Club is hosting an industry screening for Destiny Ekaragha, one of our current Creatives in Residence. Many of you may already know Destiny from the London Film Festival where her work was programmed in both 2008 and 2009. We’ll be screening the two shorts featured at the LFF for those who haven’t had the opportunity to see them in the past. We’ll also be screening Destiny’s new project ’The Future WAGS of Great Britain’. This new short was commissioned by Channel 4 and will be broadcast later in the year.

As part of the Courvoisier Live Spirit Festival Peter Gregson and artist Jamie Shaw collaborated to create a piece where they performed spontaneously in response to each other’s work.

Peter Gregson, Upcoming performances….

Le Poisson Rouge, New York, 8 Aug 6.30pm

“a young, tech-friendly Scottish cellist at the forefront of the new-music scene” – New York Magazine, Critics Choice for Classical

alt_classical, The Hospital Club 14 Sept, 7pm

Save The Date …..

WHITE SOMETHING- Written by Matt Wilkinson Directed By Destiny Ekaragha