| AdminHistory | LIFT '91, the 10th Anniversary Season, was held between 20 June '21 July and the programme consisted of:
Angell Town Festival (UK) 'Angell Town Festival' Angell Town Estate, Brixton
Cross References series co-commissioned with the Royal Court Theatre and the National Theatre, The Royal Court Theatre Upstairs 2 '20 July
Ariel Dorfmann (Chile, UK) 'Death and the Maiden '
Gcina Mhlophe (South Africa) 'Love Child'
Griselda Gambaro (Argentina) 'Putting Two and Two Together'
Harold Pinter (UK) 'The New World Order'
Stefan Tsanev (Bulgaria) 'Paranoia'
Heatwave Season at the Serpentine Gallery:
Jerzy Kalina (Poland) 'Cathedral and Welcome to Poland' 18 '21 July
Konic Theatre (Spain) 'Natura Morta' 19 '21 July
Live Art UK commissions:
The Damned Lovely (UK) 'Neglected English Monuments' Institute of Contemporary Arts 1 '3 July
Mayhew and Edmunds & Co (UK) 'The Divine Ecstasy of Destruction' Institute of Contemporary Arts 1 '3 JulyPants Performance (UK) 'Democracy' Institute of Contemporary Arts 7 '9 July
Bobby Baker (UK) 'Kitchen Show' Bobby Baker's North London Kitchen 2 '7 July, 10 '14 July and 17 '21 July Keith Khan (UK) 'Flying Costumes, Floating Tombs' Paddington Basin 12 '13 July
Battimamzel Productions (Trinidad, UK), 'The Man Who Lit Up the World' Hackney Empire 10 '11 July and 15 '21 July
Comedy Theatre Bucharest (Romania) 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Lyric Theatre Hammersmith 8 '13 July
Footsbarn Travelling Theatre (France) 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Highbury Fields 20 '23 June, 26 '30 June and 2 '6 July
Los Angeles Poverty Department (USA, UK) 'LA-PhysicalDescription
Inspects London' Abbey Community Centre 9 '13 July
Maly Drama Theatre Leningrad (USSR) 'Gaudeamus - 19 Improvisations' Riverside Studios 11 '16 July
Maly Drama Theatre Leningrad (USSR) 'Brothers & Sisters' Lyric Theatre Hammersmith 18 '21 July
Market Theatre Company of Johannesburg (South Africa) 'Starbrites' Tricycle Theatre 2 '6 July, 8 '13 July and 15 '20 July Nancy Reilly (USA, UK) 'Assume the Position' Institute of Contemporary Arts 11 '14 July and 16 '20 July
New York Shakespeare Festival / Joseph Papp (USA) 'Spunk' Royal Court Theatre 16 '20 July
Rajatabla (Venezuela) 'No-one Writes to the Colonel' Presented in association with Visiting Arts, Riverside Studios 4 '8 July
Rose English (UK) 'The Double Wedding' Barclays New Stages series, Royal Court Theatre 3 '6 July and 8 '10 July
The Puppet Centre, Handspring Puppet Company, Faulty Optic, Queen's Park Community School 'The Life of Themba' (UK, South Africa) Kilburn High Road, Tricycle Theatre
Welfare State International (UK) 'Lord Dynamite' Three Mills Centre, Bow Creek 28 '30 June
The Festival Club was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts
'Lifting the Lid' was a programme of talks, conference, debates, discussions and workshops and consisted of:
Bobby Baker, 'Owning Up', talk, Riverside Studios 15 July;
Lev Dodin, Alexander Darie, Barney Simon, 'Changing Worlds', talk, Institute of Contemporary Arts 13 July;
'Homelessness and the Arts', conference, Abbey Community Centre 11 July;
'Crossing Boundaries', conference, The Holborn Centre for the Performing Arts 13 July;
'Territorial Conflicts', talk, Institute of Contemporary Arts 14 July;
'Festivals - Who Needs Them?' conference, Royal Festival Hall 22 July;
'The Art of Mas', forum, Commonwealth Institute 20 July;
'Visual Artists in Polish Theatre', talk, Institute of Contemporary Arts 17 July;
Jerzy Kalina, talk, Serpentine Gallery 21 July;
Rosa Sanchez, talk, Serpentine Gallery 21 July;
Workshops were given at Riverside Studios by artists from: Rajatabla; Maly Drama Theatre Leningrad; Comedy Theatre Bucharest. |