Hotbed 2009 features guest performances from the some of the best theatre companies and solo practitioners out there.  From tea leaves to Helen Mort’s performance poetry, there’s something for everyone!

To book tickets for Hotbed 2009, go to www.junction.co.uk

A Stroke of Genius
PIT

Eccentric female librarian seeks male for good times and illegal sperm harvesting.  Must enjoy: literature, blackmailing and cuddles.  Own turkey-baster preferred…  A new comedy based on the true story of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank.

PIT are a young, multi-award winning company that have been making fun and unusual theatre since 2003.

Performances (click on the dates to book - this will take you to the Junction website)

Sat 4 July - 1pm
£5/£4 | 60 mins

Wittgenstein’s Face
by Jeremy Hardingham

‘The face is the soul of the body’ - Wittgenstein.  What happens to a face glutted from ingesting painted, photographed and filmed images of other faces?  This solo show explores these questions though a series of playful performances in which faces appear, transform and dissolve, complete with ventriloquy, puppets, gravity and light.

Thu 2 July - 9.30pm
£5/£4 | 30 mins

Our Share of Tomorrow
Real Circumstance

Selections from this new play in development. “He asked her out when they were sitting on the Quay.  She was fifteen, he a year older; and they were very happy together.  But then she had to go away…”

Real Circumstance are documenting the creation of Our Share of Tomorrow online.  They are currently building the characters’ imaginary lives, and the rehearsal footage is being streamed live at www.realcircumstance.com/osot, where you can also watch some of the footage to date. You can also be informed when they are about to stream at www.twitter.com/realcirc.

Dan and the Cast are also blogging about the process (links here: http://reallycircumstantial.blogspot.com/; http://tamsinshareoftomorrow.blogspot.com/; http://josomervell.blogspot.com/).

Sat 27 June - 7.30pm
Pay What You Can | 30 mins

The Captain of the School Football Team
by Kenneth Emson
Box of Tricks Theatre

Amid the prefect badges, school blazers and empty B&H packets, a secret lurks that will send shivers down the spine of a small community.  On a warm sunny day, when Kev and Lisa should have been at school, events take a dark turn and it’s no longer just a laugh.  A dark, lyrical tale of teenage tragedy.

Wed 1 July - 6pm
Pay What You Can | 60 mins

Tasseomancy
Small Change

An interactive journey through a Victorian world of magicians, lost souls and tea leaves.  A site-specific promenade performance from Hotbed favourites, Small Change.

Sat 4 July - 3pm, 5pm, 7pm
Pay What You Can | 60 mins

A Pint for the Ghost
by Helen Mort

A night-time encounter with the ghosts of worked-out mines, smoky pubs and deserted highways.  Award-winning poet Helen Mort conjures them all in this compelling odyssey, reinventing and revelling in the voices of her native South Yorkshire.  One more for the road?…

Performances (click on the dates to book - this will take you to the Junction website)

Sat 27 June - 9pm
£5/£4 | 60 mins

LATE ADDITION TO PROGRAMME

Investment

Random Scream is a multi Media performance group from Brussels
Investment playfully examines the issues of consumerism, culture, politics and the environment from the point of view of the “Investor”.  As governments attempt to kick-start the global economy, Investment looks at the moral maze of our created culture and invites the audience to question their values and directly compare the urgency of the issues facing us today. Devious and political, Investment is a dance piece, a theater piece, and quite possibly an advertisement for the lottery itself.

This is a rare opportunity for UK audiences to see a work in progress performance from this unique company just weeks before its premiere at the Impulsetanz festival, Vienna.

Investment is performed by Jerry Killick, who was in Menagerie’s Correspondence last year and is a regular collaborator with Forced Entertainment, Davis Freeman, who, as well as running Random Scream, has also performed regularly with Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods and Forced Entertainment and Fabien Prioville, who has worked for many years with Pina Bausch’s Wuppertaler Tanztheater

Friday 3 July - 9pm
£5/£4 (includes a lottery ticket) | 75 mins