Missfit Mondays is a four-month long mini festival celebrating innoventive writing in theatre, poetry, storytelling and the moving image/film. It is set up as a festival fundraiser for DYS(THE)LEXI 2009, a festival celebrating the work of dyslexic writers.
Missfit Mondays is conceived as an experience space in which new audiences bring forth new writing and vice versa. We welcome new ideas and want to work with people who want to dissolve boundaries and are particularly keen to work with artists whose work does not fit easily into conventional ‘boxes’. We are particularly keen to celebrate dyslexic and dyspraxic artists’ work, but our remit is wide and we welcome submissions from all.
Missfit Mondays will take place on consecutive Mondays--February through May--at The Troy Bar, Hoxton Street, London from 7:30-10:30PM. Tickets are £6/5.
For further reading, check out the Missfit Mondays blogs here and here.
About The Organisers
missfit Productions, the storytellers’ pedestal, is the brainchild of Lennie Varvarides, who has high standards, but doesn’t like rules, and has learned to love the inconsistency of her imagination.
Leon Conrad, co-founder of Touchwaves, gets excited when people allow their soul-light to shine through their voices in performance–in any way–to tell their stories.
Their distinct interests and joint energies come together to bring about the creative performance space which is Missfit Mondays.
And This Is Where You Come In...
Missfit Mondays is a four-month long mini festival celebrating ‘innoventive’ writing in theatre, poetry, storytelling and the moving image/film.
Touchwaves and missfit Productions are co-producing Missfit Mondays every Monday at the Troy Bar in Hoxton Street from March–May 2009. This is a fundraiser for a new charity called DYS(THE)LEXI that will celebrate, develop and produce the work of dyslexic and dyspraxic writers.
We are looking for artists that are keen to experiment with both form and content, artists that are not afraid of their audience, and artists that have got something evocative to say. We are looking for:
- PERFORMANCE POETS Performance poets will be offered a performance slot of 10-20min depending on material and delivery. STORYTELLERS Storytellers will be given a time slot of 15-30min depending on material and delivery.
- PLAYWRIGHTS Playwrights will be offered either a reading of their work, or a staged production, depending of the material. Performance nights available are from 1-4 consecutive Monday nights. The producers will provide both the actors and the director, unless the writer has an existing team they wish to work with. The producers will provide a limited amount of weekly rehearsal space.
- MOVING IMAGE Filmmakers will be offered a weekly screening of their shorts or experimental moving image work. The time slots available are 60sec – 15min max. Please email links to your work, or send in a copy of your DVD. (Contact producers for postal address).
Submission Deadlines March 20. We ask all enquires be sent to missfitmonday@gmail.com and that your submissions is made via our short application processes.
MISSFIT MONDAYS 2009 Festival Fundraiser For DYS(THE)LEXI 2009: CALL FOR NEW WORK!
missfit Productions, the storytellers' pedestal, in collaboration with Touchwaves, are set to produce high quality storytelling, of all kinds, crossing all media. We’re looking for tellers, poets, visual makers, playwrights, players, improvisers, directors, dreamers, idealists, rebels, and our favourite of all, missfits.
If you have a story or an idea for a story and you are looking to test it out or show it off, please get in contact ASAP.
There are three submission deadlines for the 2009 season which runs from February to May - Friday 30th Jan 09; Friday 27th Feb 09 and Friday 10th April 09. Download the entry form and return it per email to missfitmonday@gmail.com. The earlier we receive your application, the greater your chance of being able to participate.
We are offering playwrights who submit the most developed work a maximum run of 4 performances and, where necessary, happy to support the writer with casting, as well as sourcing a director. There is no funding for this project, but it is an opportunity to participate in a high quality event to which you can invite industry professionals/agents.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Lennie Varvarides (misfit productions)
Leon Conrad (Touchwaves)
Missfit Mondays Season One
16 March:
Gerard Logan The Rape of Lucrece
Finding the Geocache by Rachel Barnett
Wrapped Up by Ella Simpson
23 March:
Leon Conrad & Sam Fathi
Storytelling
Jonathan Brown Free Beer
Finding the Geocache by Rachel Barnett
Wrapped Up by Ella Simpson
30 March:
Leon Conrad & Sam Fathi
Storytelling
Annoushka Bayley performance
poetry
Wrapped Up by Ella Simpson
Bloody Women by Emer O’Connor
Windfall (by Nicholas McInerny)
"...an unusual winter warmer of a play."
Nicholas McInerny (writer) I write to express my hopes and confront my fears. And to explore that moment of transformation in my characters that will inspire an audience to do the same.
Tanith Lindon (director) I'm truly passionate about developing new work in theatre, and have set up a monthly night in Borough called The Jam to showcase the best of London's new writing and performing talent. I was drawn to missfit for their similar ethos.
Simon Child (actor, Windfall) "To collaborate with talented people, and bring to life that which the writer intended is nothing short of enthralling for me. To arrive at the truth is something surely all of us aspire to!"
Alexander Gatehouse (actor, Windfall) has just graduated from LAMDA: Theatre since graduating: All For Honour (Tara Arts), Persephone (Silver Spoon) 3 Way (Etcetera). Theatre at LAMDA: Lord Fancourt Babberly (Charlie’s Aunt), Brazen (The Recruiting Officer), Father Bojevic (Pentecost), Roy Cohn (Angels in America), Bob Hackabout (Still), Medvedenko (The Seagull), Topolski (The Pillowman). Other roles include: Buster (Hanging Around, Kneehigh RNT), Steward (Valpariso, Old Red Lion), Miles (Eligies, Fortune Theatre), Profulus (The Broken Heart, White Bear), George Matcham JR (A Bequest to the Nation, Jermyn Street Theatre.) Film includes: Bret (The Snow Club), Jake (The one inside, SKA Screen)
Francesca Ellis (actress, Windfall)
trained at University College Salford and The Arts Educational Schools London. After a varied career in both musical theatre and acting, her credits include; Les Miserables UK tour, Gilbert and Sullivan season with the Carl Rosa opera, West End and US tour, Company directed by Sam Mendes, West End, The Caucasion Chalk Circle and Soul Traders both Edinburgh Festival, Joyful Noise (rehearsed reading) Hampstead Theatre, Holby City BBC, Two Pints of Lager and a packet of Crisps for the Comedy Directors Course, Hair Spectrum Arena Norway, solo vocalist for Wonderful West End UK and Holland, The Pirates of Penzance UK tour, Oklahoma UK tour. Workshops; Tony Pratchetts Only You Can Save Mankind, The Amazing Mr Blunden directed by Stephen Dexter and Dearly Beloved adapted from Evelyn Waughs The Loved One. Francesca is delighted to be part of new writing for Missfit Mondays.
Wrapped Up by Ella Simpson
"...An ice-bound liquid thriller of a play!"
More info about Wrapped Up coming soon!
Jumping Off Cliffs
"...a far from funereal funeral story"
Philippa Tatham (Jumping Off Cliffs) My first ever house was a converted pigeon coop with mould on the walls, although my mother insists it wasn’t a pigeon coop, it was a dovecot, which is a classier edifice altogether. I have since ended up in London, where I live in a shambolic Edwardian bedsit because the dovecot infected me with a hopeless sense of romanticism I’ve never been able to shake off, and persuaded me I should live the penniless life of an artist rather than find a proper job. I write because I have to. That’s all.
The Rape Of Lucrece
'Lucrece,' quoth he, 'this night I must
enjoy thee. …’
Gerard Logan (The Rape Of Lucrece) I believe in magic. I believe that happiness is to be found in the full use of one’s powers along lines of excellence.
Sponsors
A special thank you to Dalston 4 London, Hackney Co-Operative Developments (HCD) Limited, and The Barley Mow for the provision of rehearsal space, which helps make these productions possible!