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Photograph: curtsey Reckless Sleepers

Photograph: Reckless Sleepers

RECKLESS SLEEPERS

Installation-based performance, Performance, Performance lecture, Site-specific, Experimental theatre

SIZE OF COMPANY
2–7 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small-to middle-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Mole Wetherell

General Manager
Lucia Hogg

International Producer
Sarah Ford

ARTISTIC POLICY
Reckless Sleepers creates original theatre pieces, installation projects and interventions for theatres, galleries, museums, and site- and seasonally-specific projects that both entertain and challenge its audiences, viewers and participants.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
The Guardian ()

The Herald ()

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
A performance piece where the audience are invited to dinner, to eat and drink with the company, while they hear and then eat the last words of the famous, the not so famous, criminals, victims, heroes, heroines and stars.

A bear and a girl lost in a wood. A performance about fear and control in 12 parts, and three 3 acts.

Lecture performance accompanying the publication of a book about Reckless Sleepers’ working process.

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Two man performance written and performed by Mole Wetherell and Tim Ingram. Two men on a journey of discovery – karaoke singing, Club Tropicana and all the drinks are free.

A seasonally specific performance project that place outside, inside a wood.

A collaboration with Belgian company bonbon vzw. A piece created for children.

WRAP-AROUND
Mole Wetherell has created many projects for and with students or young practitioners in the UK, Portugal and Belgium. Examples include , a two week, city-based residency programme for young people on creative writing and devising techniques culminating in exhibitions and performances; and Creating the Past, a large-scale exhibition, installation and series of performances developed together with 100 young people from Edinburgh. Reckless Sleepers also offers , a lecture performance that accompanies the launch of Trial, a book illustrating the working processes used in developing projects over a period of 15 years.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 Belgium ()
2006 Netherlands, Switzerland (), Portugal ()

TOURING AVAILABILITY
All year round.

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