A new question, a consequence, a soul seeking an audience.
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.
We hosted a little party on the 23rd April – here are some of our photos celebrating Shakepeare’s Death (and Birth) Day!
Such gorgeous and very serious guests!
And cake!
We got a little bit glammed up.
A big fat thank you to everyone we worked with over the past year (there’s a whole lot of you) and a big fat thank you to William Shakespeare – you’re a pretty awesome bloke!
xxx
We are very excited to announce for Et Tu – George Turner playing the first of our very fine characters joining the expanding In Souliloquy family – Petruchio from Taming of the Shrew.
George is playing Petruchio both for our digital theatre piece and also live on stage for Briefs (Wednesday, April 5th, Waterloo East Theatre). We are chuffed to have such a great energy in the room!
Theatre: Barrett, A WEDDING TOO FAR, Platform Theatre. Mercutio, ROMEO & JULIET, The Hawth Ampitheatre. Mercutio, ROMEO & JULIET, Brighton Open Air Theatre. Eilert Lovborg, HEDDA GABLER, Gatehouse Theatre. Adam, SOMEONE WHO’LL WATCH OVER ME, The Bridewell Theatre. Steve, PINNING BUTTERFLIES, Central Saint Martins, The Royal Albert Hall. Peter, AFTER THE DANCE, Gatehouse Theatre. Tom, THE ACCRINGTON PALS, The Bridewell Theatre. Short Film: Eustace, WINKING IN THE GARDENS AT SUNSET, British Film Festival.
George plays a Petruchio who is a little bit lost, but his drunken meeting with Sebastian might just wake him up to what he has.
(Meanwhile if you are interested check out our Katherina – we reckon these two probably make a pretty fine pair).
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
As part of our continuing management and growth of this platform we have diversified our social media to instagram – we have the same handle as our twitter @insouliloquy and are already busy posting #behindthescenes photos, stills and various bits and pieces from existing and new work.
Both of us love instagram. It’s a platform we enjoy as well as twitter – so please come check us out. One of the key pieces of new content we are launching on this platform is #ShakesHead – a talking heads doodle web comic with Shakespeare’s bust and Yorick having a rather one sided conversation. It’s pretty simple but totally cute.
At the moment it’s very low tech, non-fancy but we shall see how it develops as we potter along. #ShakesHead is a little ambitious – certainly in terms of zines.
We will be cross posting, some of the content here to the blog – collating a (optimistically) weekly #ShakesHead blog post for example. In the mean time – we’d love to see you there!
xx
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)
Important news to share in for our ongoing Snout project and how you can be involved. What initially started as a one off cycle has expanded into an ongoing project. Thank you so much for your support and enthusiasm!
We are:
Making a stop motion animation with the penguin above. Wilston as he is known is our worldly representative from Antarctica. As much as we anticipate working with people from all over the world (yay!) – we thought we’d cover the big ice-y south continent.
Having said that if you know someone working down in Antarctica, or living anywhere who is a performer who might be interested in contributing to our #WallForAll – we would LOVE to be put in touch to continue building this project. We are looking for more collaborators and people interested, the more diverse and varied the better.
Our next batch will be released in early 2017 but we are looking for people interested beyond that.
This project was always about connecting people but we are now actively pitching it as a narrative disrupting-art-winning-unite-the-world thing. What better way to continue the celebration of Shakespeare’s work than to make new work inspired by one of his most beloved characters that links us all in new ways.
Big love for the holiday season!
xx
Tilly and Victorine.
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
Snout In Souliloquy – Christina Jolie Breza – New York from In Souliloquy on Vimeo.
A Wall for All. Built by Christina Jolie Breza, 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
Nicasio Zanetti: DP
Hannah Rose Deflumeri: AD
Gui Agustini: Editor
Song: Vivaldi Four Seasons (Winter)
Christina graduated from University of North Florida where she earned her AA degree in English, then went on to graduate from Florida Atlantic University with a Bachelor of Arts Magna Cum Laude in performance, combat, and make-up design. Christina has extensive training in across the board acting techniques. She recently graduated from a two-year acting conservatory in NYC. Christina has also been honored and blessed to have studied intensively under Aaron Speiser, Lenard Petit a Michael Chekhov specialist, Andrew Wade, Anthony Meindl, Chuck Cooper in a Musical Theatre Workshop, Tim Carroll and Daniel Davis for Shakespeare Technique.
She has put her training to good use by starring in multiple indie films, producing indie shorts with her husband and starting their production company “PowerCouple Productions” She has also performed in the off-Broadway Traveling Company of “Tony and Tina’s Wedding.” Other stage work includes, Sylvia in “Sylvia,” Columbia in “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” and Sister Prejean in “Dead Man Walking.” Christina is an all around actor with a broad range of abilities including choreography, combat, and makeup design. She has a passion for fashion with her costume design and deep knowledge of dramatic history.
Snout In Souliloquy is a continuing international digital theatre project celebrating artistic connection and collaboration across the world.
Snout In Souliloquy – Ziyun Hong – Seoul from In Souliloquy on Vimeo.
A Wall For All. Built by Ziyun Hong, Seoul, South Korea.
Snout In Souliloquy (after William Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream).
Written by Tilly Lunken
Produced by Victorine Pontillon and Tilly Lunken
The Actress: Ziyun Hong
Friends in Restaurant: Jialiang Bi, Linjian Dai, Zhen Jin, Zhijun Huang and Jinhan Wang
Directed by Ziyun Hong
Filmed and edited by Ziyun Hong
Narrated by Ziyun Hong
Since graduating from East 15, Ziyun has worked on many projects as an actor, puppeteer, stage manager, director, and workshop leader. Recent credits include WAR HORSE, HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, THE VILLA 1.0 & 2.0, COSI, THE OWNER etc. Ziyun is thrilled to get involved in the Snout In Souliloquy project. As a UK-trained Chinese actress who is currently residing in Seoul, she hopes to present something interesting in her self-directed short.
Snout In Souliloquy is a continuing international digital theatre project celebrating artistic connection and collaboration across the world.
In Souliloquy 