Ophelia #Revisited.

Ophelia In Souiloquy – Revisited from In Souliloquy on Vimeo.

 

Part of #InSouliloquyRevisited

Performed & Choreographed by Katharine Hardman
Written by Tilly Lunken
Directed by Victorine Pontillon
After William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

In Souliloquy is devised and produced by V&T
Special Thanks to Caroline Salem & Space Clarence Mews.

Vocals & Composition by Katharine Hardman

We are so excited to launch #InSouliloquyRevisited with our collaboration with Katharine Hardman.

Katharine Hardman is an actor, writer and Movement Director and recent graduate of Drama Centre London. Artistic Director of ‘Entita Theatre’ having produced fifteen shows alongside Jamie Woods. Working as the company’s Movement Director and Choreographer (for a little more please see:www.entitatheatre.co.uk ). Katharine has recently curated an all female new writing night at the Greenwich Theatre, Lost in London, this night hosted six new places centered around London living with New Light Productions.

Theatre:  Cassie Grey EIGENGRAU (Greenwich Theatre), Ophelia CURTAIN’D SLEEP (Peckham Basic Space Festival), Arkadina THE SEAGULL (Vakhtangov Institute, Moscow) Jean Bird METHOD IN MADNESS (Rose Theatre Kingston, Edinburgh Fringe Festival & National Tour) Zelda YOUR FRAGRANT PHANTOM (National Tour, Marlowe Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, NSDF)

Katharine has also worked with Ita O’brien on her Intimacy on Screen movement.

@KatHardman

#InSouliloqyRevisited Artist Callout!

We would love for you to collaborate with us on our exciting new platform #InSouliloquyRevisited – this is a fabulous chance for us to connect with other artists and also to explore different meanings and interpretations of our texts.

Please drop us a line for more info – in the mean time have a look through our previous cycles and see if anything jumps to mind?

We’d love to work with you!

Tilly and Victorine x

Introducing: Sophie MacKenzie as Mariana for ET TU.

We are delighted to announce Sophie MacKenzie as Mariana for our next ET TU release. Sophie’s spotlight: https://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/4373-0194-6737 details her theatre work, she is a musician as well as a visual artist. https://www.instagram.com/_powerful_man/

Our Mariana is beginning to feel a little trapped in the web of her own happily everafter. Luckily her new bff Bianca has wine and good heart.

Introducing: Victorine Pontillon as Director of Mechanicals’ Macbeth!

Franco-American Victorine Pontillon has divided her life between the two countries, and is now settled in London, working as freelance director, filmmaker, photographer and producer. After obtaining her Baccalaureat Litteraire from the Lycée Victor Hugo in Caen, with a concentration in Art History and Theatre, she then returned to the States for a BFA in Theatre Performance from FAU, graduating Suma Cum Laude in 2011, before completing her MA in Acting (International) at East 15 Acting School.

She is an Artistic Director, co-producer and director for In Souliloquy and is also an Artistic Associate of Goblin Baby Theatre Co.

Website
Twitter/insta: @theredkrokidile

In Souliloquy: Shakespeare Shaken-Up! @ Grosvenor and Hilbert Park, Tunbridge Wells.

In association with Tunbridge Wells Borough Council we are presenting Shakespeare Shaken-Up at The Hub, Grosvenor and Hilbert Park, 7pm, Tuesday the 24th October.

The presentation/performance/discussion will include screenings of a selection of souliloquies, a live performance and facilitated discussion on our practice and this project as well as how digital/live theatre stages interact and how we as artists interact and engage with source Shakespeare texts.

We would love to see you there!

In Souliloquy in Parkland Walk Pop-Up Shakespeare – June 2017!

We are very excited to announce we have a short extract of a longer piece in development as part of Attila Theatre’s Parkland Walk Pop-Up Shakespeare in the Crouch End Festival!

Our piece is called Mechanicals’ Macbeth – Witches Extract and is a scene from a very exciting full-length piece currently in development! This performance is part of our R&D period on the project and we are delighted to share it with you.

Our cast – we shall be sharing more details of our team shortly!

• Snout/ First Witch – Kate Sketchley
• Flute/ Second Witch – Jonathan Edward Cobb
• Starveling/ Third Witch – Yvan Karlsson

Details for this free event are here.

• Sun, 11th June 2017 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
• Tue, 13th June 2017 from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Four Cycles Down!

For the past few months I’ve been re-releasing our Souliloquies on my personal blog with some notes on the writing, performance, process etc. It’s nice to take the time to not only share a bit more of the process but also think back and reflect on the intensity of production and how far we came across the four cycles.

Today I shared Don John our final souliloquy from the 4 2016 Cycles – it feels appropriate to mark the occasion with a reflective blog because it is pretty momentous. We produced 24 original new pieces of writing in 6 months! From the idea right through the writing, casting, direction, filming, editing, release and all the associated social media and admin – that is a lot of work. It’s quite satisfying as a writer!

You can check out the blog about Don John here  – and click on through for other insights about the other characters across our 4 cycles – they’re all there!

Interestingly, Don John was a character I had expressed an interest in writing way back in Cycle 1 but he kept getting bumped down our spreadsheet. He doesn’t say much and the productions I had seen pitted him as a very panto villain but we were determined to do him at some point and this was last chance saloon.

Boy does he kick down those doors and hold you up!

Thanks to everyone who has watched our 2016 Cycles – here’s another chance to dive in and sample a few more – discover new sides to loved characters or find out about someone you didn’t know existed.

Tilly x

 

Ariel In Winter.

Ariel In Souliloquy from In Souliloquy on Vimeo.

Be your own island.

Performed by Christopher Montague
Written by Tilly Lunken
Directed by Victorine Pontillon
After William Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

In Souliloquy is devised and produced by V&T
Ariel In Soulilouquy is a Seasonal Soliloquy.

Music:
Facile by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Christopher Montague graduated from the University of Reading with a BA in Film & Theatre (2011) before training as an actor for two years with Fourth Monkey Theatre Company (2013-2015). Christopher is also Co-Founder of Attila Theatre, formed in 2013 and works as a freelance actor, director, deviser, stage manager and barman (obviously).

Having seen Chris perform Ariel at Attila’s Pop Up Shakespeare Festival he was our first choice to bring new understanding to the spirit released finally to freedom.

 

In Souliloquy – 2016 by Numbers!

When people ask us about 2016 and what we achieved it’s often quite overwhelming to communicate the scale of In Souliloquy and the amount of work we actually did across the year. This started as a little project and has evolved into anything but that – although at it’s core it remains essentially what we set out to do. To celebrate Shakespeare, his work and to reclaim the voices of characters lost in the plays and time since.

We’ve grown too, as producers and artists. Our vision has opened up and we are very excited to bring new creations to you in 2017.

Thank you to everyone who has collaborated with us this year, your time, talent and work has been essential to the ongoing success of this project. Thank you to those who voted on that terrible website, supported by viewing our videos and put up with us talking Shakespeare all the time. We are pretty chuffed with your support and confident we can reward it by continuing to make good art (hat tip Neil Gaiman) this new year.

Big love and a whole lot of gratitude,

Tilly and Victorine xx
(V&T)

 

Snout In Souliloquy – Gui Agustini – New York.

Snout In Souliloquy – Gui Agustini – New York from In Souliloquy on Vimeo.

A Wall for All. Built by Gui Agustini, New York, USA.

Snout In Souliloquy (after William Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream).
Written by Tilly Lunken
Produced by Victorine Pontillon and Tilly Lunken

Performed and self filmed by Gui Agustini.
Music: MY INSPIRATION by AShamaluev.

Gui Agustini was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. His father, a plastic surgeon, is Peruvian and his mother is Argentinian. Some unusual accomplishments in his life were: being nationally ranked Top 80 as a tennis player and getting a tennis scholarship in the US; getting a 4.0 GPA in his Freshman year; learning French in 4 months; as an actor, being nominated to the Irene Ryan’s Award for his role of Hal in Picnic – his first play in America. Gui speaks fluently 3 languages – Portuguese, Spanish and English – and knows the basics of French.

He began his professional career as an actor and model in Venezuela, while also being projected to the neighboring countries such as Colombia and Ecuador. He trained as an actor at the Miami Acting Studio for 2 years, and at the Tom Todoroff Conservatory in NYC.

Snout In Souliloquy is a continuing international digital theatre project celebrating artistic connection and collaboration across the world. #WorldStage