Jarry Unchained by Sin Sin Collective at De Vondelbunker 12-14 September. Through comedy, songs, dance, projections and puppets, Sin Sin Collective tells the story of the life and works of Alfred Jarry, impoverished fin de siècle Bohemian, singular seminal artist and self desructive hedonist.
photos by Tatjana Todorovic
Cast & Credits
Mark Christoph Klee - Alfred Jarry/Choreography Dorothy Heady-Carroll - La Fée Verte/Ruby Ton Haas - Professor Achras Roberto Bacchilega - Pa Ubu Sam Heady - Ma Ubu/Babette/Demon Daniel Rakish – Palcontent/Pablo Picasso Erik van Wees - The Conscience Lorna Buckley – Demon Silvia Terribili – Demon Claudio Sanzana – Lighting Martin Millband – Max Jacob/Guitar/Sound Engineer Martin Carroll – Ukulele/Visuals/Music Composer David Rothschild – Euphonium/Trombone Wisefire - Additional Music Gino Calenda – Design Set Design – Tatteljee Directed by Sam HeadyWritten by Sin Sin
Friday 12th September 20:00
Saturday 13th September 20:00
& Sunday 14th September 15:00
at De
Vondelbunker, Vondelpark 8a, Amsterdam
Set in his Paris garret on the last day of his life, Jarry Unchained is a new play by Sin Sin
Collective celebrating the life, work and significance of Alfred Jarry (1873
-1907).
The academic, Professor Achras, leads us into Jarry’s
life and significance via Jarry’s Time Machine and the power of Pataphysics
Jarry’s baffling ‘science of imaginary solutions’. Jarry is visited on his
deathbed by many of the characters from his distinctive cannon. The play deals
with the artist’s dilemma of using his own life and even misfortunes as
creative fuel celebrating the glory of Jarry’s creative tour de force, and is
seamlessly interwoven with still fresh and hilarious characters and scenes
adapted from Jarry’s plays Ubu Roi, Ubu
Cuckolded and Ubu Enchained.
A key figure in fin de siècle Paris, Alfred Jarry was
a Bohemian author, self-destructive hedonist and seminal influence in the
development of Absurdism, Dada and The Surreal. This precocious artist, and
rigorous eccentric was constructing cardboard costumes and having his
characters exclaim ‘Shite’ on the Paris stage of the 1890s. ‘After us the
savage God’ wrote Yeats having attended the infamous opening night riot of Ubu
Roi. In the words of Jarry himself, ‘Screw good taste’.
Sin Sin Collective’s new play is a pan-media, pan-genre
exploration of their subject. The result is a kaleidoscope of Theatrical and
Musical styles blending Modern Theatre Dance, Improvisation, Comedy, Animation,
Mask, live music and spectacular stage effects into a single narrative.
Supported by gorgeous music & visuals, virtuoso
dance performances and an accomplished cast this is a must see production.
Cast & Credits
Mark Christoph Klee - Alfred Jarry
Dorothy Heady-Carroll - La Fée Verte/Ruby
Ton Haas - Professor Achras
Roberto Bacchilega - Pa Ubu
Sam Heady - Ma Ubu/Babette/Demon
Daniel Rakish – Palcontent/Pablo Picasso
Erik van Wees - The Conscience
Lorna Buckley – Demon
Silvia Terribili – Demon
Claudio Sanzana – Lighting
Martin Millband – Max Jacob/Guitar/Sound Engineer
Martin Carroll – Ukulele/Visuals/Music Composer
David Rothschild – Euphonium/Trombone
Gino Calenda – Design
Wisefire – Additional Music
Set Design – Tatteljee
Written by Sin Sin
Directed by Sam Heady
ADMISSION FREE
Meet the Dancers
Interview with The Director
FREE FRINGE FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM 2013
Samuel Beckett's ENDGAME at De Vondelbunker Friday 13th to Sunday 15th September
Sin Sin Collective presents ENDGAME by Samuel Beckett ‘Use your head, can't you, use your head. You're on earth, there's no cure for that!’
at De Vondelbunker Friday 13 September at 20:30 Saturday 14 September at 20:30 & Matinee on Sunday 15 September at 15:00 Samuel Beckett’s darkly comic masterpiece originallypremiered in 1957 and portrays an apocalyptic vision. This production is presented in the haunting location of De Vondelbunker, a nuclear fallout shelter built in 1947 under the bridge in Amsterdam’s Vondelpark
with Carlos Trafic as Hamm, Roberto Bacchilega as Clov, Claudio Sanzana as Nagg & Silvia Terribili as Nelldirected by Sam Heady
De Vondelbunker is located at Vondelpark 8ª, under the bridge with tram 3 rumbling overhead. Admission to this, and all events of The FreeFringe Festival Amsterdam, is free of charge. We are grateful to Stichting Nulpunt and Cultural Collective Schijnheilig for their support.
See the festival website for full details of the Free Fringe Festival Amsterdam programme which runs from 5 – 15 September, 2013
SIN SIN COLLECTIVE'S HELLFIRE CLUB An entertaining evening of Theatre shorts & sketches, animation and music
THE MASK WILL EAT THE FACE Monthly Salon Theatre in the heart of Amsterdam's Red Light District
PIK & BOD RIDE AGAIN Masked play in 3 Acts
‘This is Pik & this is BodLong fallen from the grace of GodIt would be difficult to findTwo scoundrels more devious of mind . . .’
Bela, the sinister storyteller, weaves
a timeless tale of two nincompoops of the highest order, whose sneaky
schemes and dastardly doings wreak havoc wherever they roam.
Pikand Bod are sneaky little
men struggling to find the angle, constantly looking for the
loophole, resentful to the cores of their beings. Their names
are slang for ‘prick’ in Dutch and Irish respectively.They will stop at nothing to put one over
on the world but their every attempt ends in dismal
failure.Ultimately they destroy the only thing
they have in the world – one another.
With Live music is by The
Minions
PIK & BOD RIDE AGAIN is a dark comedy,
a contemporary morality play with roots deep in the Irish
idiom, in trans-cultural
Theatre traditions, in mask, and song.
“So guard your chattels, here they come Our agents of Pandemonium . . .”
TO THE WORM THERE IS NO UNDERGROUNDSin Sin's pageant for an audience that is there to dance tells the story of The Illustrated Man through original songs, projected animation, dance, beats, mask and a giant puppet.
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