Ruination - T01163459671Nothing says Christmas like a Greek tragedy - Lost Dog returns to the Royal Opera House with a new witty and irreverent take on the Greek myth of Medea as an alternative festive show.Director Ben Duke. Musical Director Yshani Perinpanayagam. Design Soutra Gilmour. Lighting Jackie Shemesh. Design Hayley Egan (video). Sound Jethro Cooke. DramaturgRaquel Meseguer. Performer Sherre DuBois (musician). Performer Yshani Perinpanayagam (musician). Performer Keith Pun (musician). Choreographer Winifred Burnet-Smith (assistant). Director Andreea Paduraru (assistant). | |
1 Dec 22 to 31 Dec 22 | Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L312132424 |
A Tale of Two Cities - T452432024Charles Dickens' best-known work of historical fiction was published in 1859 and set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution of 1789. It's a novel of revolution, love and adventure; even if audiences haven't read the book this is the show for them. And if they have read the book... this is still the show for them. From the creators of Paradise Lost and Juliet And Romeo, comes a re-staging of Charles Dickens' classic novel. Featuring live camera work on-stage, and Lost Dog's acclaimed blend of contemporary dance and theatre, rediscover Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities from a whole new perspective.Producer Warwick Arts Centre. Producer The Place. Producer Lost Dog Dance. Director Ben Duke. Design Amber Vandenhoeck. Lighting Katy Morison. Design Will Duke (projection). Sound Hjorvar Rognvaldsson. Costume Ryan Laight. DramaturgRaquel Meseguer. Performer Valentina Formenti. Performer Nina-Morgane Madelaine. Performer Temitope Ajose-Cutting. Performer Hannes Langolf. Performer John Kendall. | |
5 Apr 22 to 6 Apr 22 | Corn Exchange, Newbury :: V732 listing details L507722994 |
1 Apr 22 to 2 Apr 22 | MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton :: V0645856574 listing details L01188818859 |
15 Mar 22 to 16 Mar 22 | The Lowry, Salford :: V0655996499 listing details L1531165220 |
23 Feb 22 to 3 Mar 22 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L1452745615 |
16 Feb 22 to 18 Feb 22 | Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry :: V156 listing details L01943621549 |
8 Feb 22 to 9 Feb 22 | Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds :: V76 listing details L413812870 |
Juliet & Romeo - T01151790259Lost Dog's blend of dance, theatre and comedy takes on our cultural obsession with youth and our inevitable issues with longevity. It turns out that the star-crossed lovers didn't die in a tragic misunderstanding; they grew up and lived happily ever after. Well, they lived at least... | |
15 Nov 21 to 17 Nov 21 | Theatre Royal, Bath :: V854 listing details L1669782524 |
Juliet and Romeo's Guide to a Long and Happy Marriage - T679807025Juliet and Romeo Live is a remarkable reimagined version of Shakespeare's deeply pessimistic teenage love story in which Juliet and Romeo somehow survive through into middle age; where we see them now, struggling under the stresses and strains of supposedly being the world's most romantic couple... Join us for this humorous and heartfelt investigation into love, loss and longevity.Director Ben Duke. Other Raquel Meseguer (artistic collaborator). Performer Ben Duke. Performer Solene Weinachter. | |
21 May 20 | Blackpool Grand Theatre, Blackpool :: V518 listing details L01155225973 |
18 Jun 19 to 22 Jun 19 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L355923696 |
Juliet and Romeo's Guide to a Long and Happy Marriage - T265731493Juliet and Romeo Live is a remarkable reimagined version of Shakespeare's deeply pessimistic teenage love story in which Juliet and Romeo somehow survive through into middle age; where we see them now, struggling under the stresses and strains of supposedly being the world's most romantic couple... Join us for this humorous and heartfelt investigation into love, loss and longevity.Director Ben Duke. Other Raquel Meseguer (artistic collaborator). Performer Ben Duke. Performer Solene Weinachter. | |
14 Nov 18 | Riley Theatre, Leeds :: V1104 listing details L338257238 |
9 Nov 18 | Capstone Theatre, Liverpool :: V0538369222 listing details L0284075935 |
7 Nov 18 to 8 Nov 18 | Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry :: V156 listing details L01094445035 |
1 Nov 18 to 2 Nov 18 | The North Wall, Oxford :: V0818740866 listing details L462689783 |
27 Feb 18 to 3 Mar 18 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L2014199476 |
14 Feb 18 to 24 Feb 18 | BAC (Battersea Arts Centre), Inner London :: V168 listing details L1592580459 |
Paradise Lost (Lies Unopened Beside Me) - T605443748A one man staging of Milton's epic Paradise Lost. Forget whatever came into your head when you read that and prepare to be surprised, to laugh out loud, to be moved. And much more. Combining theatre, comedy and movement this is a journey through the story of the creation of everything condensed into 75 minutes. A show which brings you the highlights of this well known but often forgotten story beginning with Lucifer's rebellion and ending with Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden, edging awkwardly through God's rather cramped galley kitchen along the way.Company Lost Dog. | |
21 Oct 16 to 22 Oct 16 | mac birmingham - Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham :: V146 listing details L1324370871 |
18 Oct 16 | Lancaster Arts, Lancaster :: V522 listing details L1013993622 |
19 Jul 16 to 23 Jul 16 | Wilton's Music Hall, Inner London :: V1165 listing details L193043650 |
24 May 16 to 28 May 16 | BAC (Battersea Arts Centre), Inner London :: V168 listing details L803516678 |
Paradise Lost (Lies Unopened Beside Me) - T1906852308There is a possibility that God made everything because he was terrified of doing nothing. Here is a re-telling of the story of the beginning of everything inspired by Milton's Paradise Lost - told through words, music and the easily misunderstood medium of dance. You should come and see it if you're a father (or a mother), if you've created something that you've had to let go, or if you'd like to see God and Satan flirting. Lost Dog is an award winning dance theatre company led by Ben Duke. Ben Duke is a Work Place artist.Book by John Milton. Lighting Jackie Shemesh. Design Jackie Shemesh. Other Raquel Meseguer (artistic collaborator). Choreographer Ben Duke. Performer Ben Duke. | |
9 Jun 16 | Deda, Derby :: V0798171273 listing details L0371730752 |
19 Nov 15 | The North Wall, Oxford :: V0818740866 listing details L136108922 |
9 Oct 15 to 10 Oct 15 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L1283283127 |
5 Aug 15 to 30 Aug 15 | Summerhall, Edinburgh :: V0556715916 listing details L607445734 |
26 May 15 to 27 May 15 | BAC (Battersea Arts Centre), Inner London :: V168 listing details L01322334209 |
Like Rabbits - T0269588620In this quietly devastating new work for two performers inspired by Virginia Woolf's short story Lappin and Lapinova, a man and a woman meet and have sex and fall deeply in love. Each night the lovers slip away from their real lives into a world that exists only in their shared imagination: a world that belongs to them, in which tax returns and shopping lists and commuting do not exist; a world in which they are not their normal selves, but King of the Rabbits and Queen of the Hares. But what begins as a game soon becomes a battleground, and the couple hurtle towards a tragedy of the saddest, and most ordinary kind. Devised by Ben Duke in collaboration with Lucy Kirkwood. Duration: 75minsPresented byLost Dog. Presented byLucy Kirkwood. Lighting Jackie Shemesh. Design Jackie Shemesh. Costume Holly Waddington. Performer Ino Riga. Performer Ben Duke. | |
24 Jan 15 | The North Wall, Oxford :: V0818740866 listing details L01857551586 |
16 Jan 15 | Minerva Theatre, Chichester :: V1310317653 listing details L978175377 |
10 Oct 14 to 11 Oct 14 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L02079428293 |
15 May 14 | Brighton Dome, Brighton :: V655 listing details L01673943009 |
It Needs Horses/Home for Broken Turns - T1270373477It Needs Horses tells the tale of a down at heel circus duet and their increasingly desperate attempts to entertain the crowd. The glamour has faded, the performers have forgotten their acts, but the show must go on. Home for Broken Turns follows the characters from this disastrous double act as they leave the circus ring for the last time. Inspired by Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, it looks at how fictional characters continue to exist even after the piece that called them into existence has finished. The Home for Broken Turns is where these characters gather, watched over by a fierce matriarch who is both protector and pimp for these lost children of the theatre.Performer Anna Finkel. Performer Chris Evans. | |
17 Oct 13 | Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth :: V906 listing details L01399299157 |
15 Oct 13 | Brighton Dome, Brighton :: V655 listing details L0325976035 |
26 Oct 12 to 27 Oct 12 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L1663717492 |
Rabbits - T01566604317A delicate woman, deeply in love, marries a man named Ernest. Every night the newlyweds slip away from their real lives and disappear over the moors into a world of their own creation. There, they are King of the Rabbits and Queen Of the Hares. But as she craves to stay longer and longer in this fantasy world, she soon fears that her husband considers it only a game - one that has already begun to lose its novelty - and the couple hurtle towards quiet, devastating tragedy.Choreographer Ben Duke. Author Lucy Kirkwood. | |
22 Jul 13 to 24 Jul 13 | Almeida Theatre, West End :: V166 listing details L1143097325 |
It Needs Horses - T01722651871A darkly comic tale about live entertainment, featuring a down-at-heel ringmaster and his glamorously bedraggled assistant and their increasingly extreme measures to draw the crowds. Lost Dog's It Needs Horses won the UK's largest choreographic competition, the Place Prize 2011. | |
20 Jul 12 | Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham :: V170333385 listing details L1394420640 |
Salvage - T01367126688Employing their unique blend of dance, theatre and live music, Salvage tells the story of what happens in the aftermath - the moment it's all ended. About what becomes important and what we save.Director Ben Duke. Director Raquel Meseguer. Design Will Duke. DramaturgStephen Brown. Lighting Jackie Shamesh. | |
6 May 10 | General, General :: V1276 listing details L560743486 |
27 Apr 10 to 28 Apr 10 | Laban Theatre, Outer London :: V342 listing details L0595957232 |
28 Jan 10 | Corn Exchange, Newbury :: V732 listing details L742974779 |
The Rain Parade - T01734827097Ben Duke and Raquel Meseguer are two of three survivors of the apocalypse in The Rain Parade a darkly comic, provocative new duet from Lost Dog. With limited memories and only a few objects left from the world as they knew it, they struggle to piece together a common history from the ruins. Set to live music composed and performed by Jamie McCarthy, The Rain Parade is a poignant look at what might become of mankind’s great civilisation.Performer Ben Duke. Performer Raquel Meseguer. Music Jamie McCarthy. | |
12 May 09 to 13 May 09 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L217722878 |
1 May 09 | artsdepot, Outer London :: V320 listing details L02049405471 |
Hungry Ghosts - T01429424013Hungry Ghosts is a dynamic twisted telling of one man's night out at the theatre. The show explores the moment our life crosses from the real to the surreal as a theatregoer struggles to understand how he became an unwilling performer in someone else's terrifying show. He thought he was just getting ready for a night out but it seems his preparations were for something much bigger; his reluctant debut, or even his own death. [Lost Dog]'s unique combination of dance, theatre and live music come together in this highly original new work to tell the story of a man's journey through a tragically theatrical act of terrorism. As the sole survivor he is haunted by the stories of those who didn't make it and is desperate to find sense in this nonsensical act. A darkly funny and moving piece of dance theatre. Running time 1 hourPerformer Ben Duke. Performer Donatella Cabras. Performer Sarah Dowling. Performer Leo Kay. Performer Laura Wheatley. Music jamie McCarthy. Choreographer Ben Duke. Choreographer Raquel Meseguer. | |
17 Oct 08 | Trestle Arts Base, St Albans :: V0547786001 listing details L0586934493 |
15 Oct 08 | Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury :: V925 listing details L1418234079 |
14 Oct 08 | Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, Taunton :: V01603938282 listing details L879344362 |
9 Oct 08 | Dundee Repertory Theatre, Dundee :: V596 listing details L01360355580 |
6 Oct 08 to 7 Oct 08 | Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry :: V156 listing details L1281449799 |
30 Sep 08 | Laban Theatre, Outer London :: V342 listing details L01324167143 |
1 Apr 08 to 2 Apr 08 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L755208134 |
24 Apr 07 to 25 Apr 07 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L0869366918 |
The Drowner - T428292441A man finds an unconscious woman on a beach and wonders whether to help her or step over her. In his hesitation the moment of decision unravels. What was, what could have been and what should have been twist into a single memory. A visual, theatrical and physical tale of what almost happened.Performer Ben Duke. Performer Raquel Meseguer. Performer Jim de Zoete. | |
15 Jun 06 | Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, Taunton :: V01603938282 listing details L1162313864 |
14 Mar 06 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L099289613 |