Re-Member Me - T01923812739This humorous and haunting solo show is a unique theatrical experience featuring exclusive footage taken from conversations between Dickie and a range of fascinating figures. | |
| 28 Nov 17 to 29 Nov 17 | Contact Theatre, Manchester :: V483 listing details L0720017940 |
Unplugged - T1480944933In this intimate and stripped-back Audience With, Dickie will sing some songs, tell some stories, and channel the voices of Judy Garland, Kenneth Williams and director Peter Sellars. Part variety show, part s?ance, this is an opportunity to enter the world of one of the country's most distinctive and exciting new talents. | |
| 27 Feb 16 | Orange Tree Theatre, Outer London :: V321 listing details L02090279884 |
Blackouts - T0441406186Conjuring the spirits of celebrated Hollywood icons in an innovative theatre experience, Dickie leads audiences on a bewitching adventure as he channels the ghosts of his childhood idols. | |
| 27 Feb 15 | Arts Centre, Aberystwyth :: V817 listing details L1147263881 |
Camera Lucida - T92118678A pioneering artist whose work spans theatre, cabaret and mime, Dickie Beau elevates the drag tradition of lip-synching through a performance style known as ?playback'. Using salvaged audio recordings which he edits into digital scripts, he channels extraordinary voices onstage, creating an eerie archive of those who might be lost, or are no longer living. Winner of this year's Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award, Beau makes his directorial debut with a haunting ensemble piece, inspired in part by the history of image-making and funerary rituals. Uncanny sound and physical performance animate psychedelic scenes that play on ideas of presence and absence. Running time: 1hr 15mins/no interval. Age guidance: 16+ (contains adult content)Producer Barbican. Producer Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award. Director Dickie Beau. Lighting Marty Langthorne. Sound William Saunders. | |
| 28 Oct 14 to 8 Nov 14 | The Pit, Barbican Centre, West End :: V372 listing details L1617888009 |
Lost in Trans - T0944864818Dickie Beau presents a poetic performance of peculiar personas. Taking Ovid's Metamorphoses as his inspiration, Dickie Beau brings to centre stage figures more commonly positioned at the margins of the mainstream. Continuing his shtick of using playback performance, in which he 'channels' voices he sees as being misplaced, misrepresented or misunderstood, Dickie breathes new life into found sound. He 're-writes' audio artefacts and plays them back through his body to become a live performing archive of the missing. Presenting a compelling constellation of vivid characters inspired by cultural antiquity, Lost in Trans- is an off-road trip through the cultural archives. Cyclops, the one-eyed giant, becomes a third eye through which we view the world anew, including a radical re-visioning of Echo the Nymph. All that remained after Echo died of a broken heart and her bones turned to stone was the sound of her voice... From Azerbaijan to Christchurch, New Zealand and festivals in-between, Le Gateau's joyous and honest performances have endeared him to audiences globally.DramaturgJulia Bardsley. Lighting Marty Langthorne. | |
| 6 Nov 13 to 7 Nov 13 | Unity Theatre, Liverpool :: V539 listing details L02088883584 |
| 11 Jul 13 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L7860091 |
Blackouts - T01566017041Drag fabulist Dickie Beau shapeshifts through a shadowy soundscape of lost souls in this theatrical trip to the subconscious underworld of his future self. Bringing to life extraordinary audio artefacts Dickie leads us on a bewitching adventure in found sound as he channels the ghosts of his childhood idols. Re-membering tapes of Judy Garland pouring her heart out into a tape machine, ostensibly making notes for a memoir that was never written, as well as tapes of Marilyn Monroe's final interview, published in LIFE magazine just days before her death (and to which Dickie was uniquely given exclusive access), BLACKOUTS is a study of icons in exile - not only from society, but also from themselves... Running time: approx. 60mins Age 16+Director Jan-Willem van den Bosch. | |
| 17 Jul 13 to 27 Jul 13 | Soho Theatre, Inner London :: V1035 listing details L169759846 |
