Sprint

[one_sixth_first] Submissions are now invited to take part in Camden People’s Theatre’s Sprint Festival 2012.[/one_sixth_first]

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Sprint is an annual festival of unusual, adventurous and experimental theatre from the most exciting new artists and companies in the UK. It includes completed works and works-in-progress, ‘scratch’ performances and on-site artist development. It happens inside CPT and outside, in the streets and buildings, on the waterways and byways beyond the theatre’s doors. It happens in the virtual world and in the audience’s imagination.

Since its inception in 1997 as a showcase for ‘physical, visual and unusual theatre’, Sprint has continued to grow in scope and reputation. Sprint runs for three weeks in March (the exact dates for 2012 are still tbc – please check website for updates or join mailing list). To see last year’s programme click HERE

Companies who found early success at Sprint have included Tell Tale Hearts, Unlimited Theatre, Cartoon de Salvo, Metro-Boulot-Dodo, Fevered Sleep, Shunt, and more recent companies include Idle Motion, Plasticine Men, Tom Marshman, Mamoru Iriguchi, Paper Birds, Stoke Newington International Airport, Search Party and Unpacked. Workshop leaders have included David Glass, Annabel Arden, Marcello Magni, John Wright, Ken Campbell, Polly Teale, Cal McCrystal and Jonathan Kay.
Starting Blocks

Applications are also invited for Starting Blocks 2012, a creative community for developing new theatre work that runs alongside Sprint.

Starting Blocks offers the opportunity to develop new theatre work with the support of Camden People’s Theatre, as part of a peer support network that encourages collaboration and engagement between participating artists. Over ten weeks, the selected artists will meet weekly to share practise, ideas and their developing works. They will also be given space to develop their particular project and practise. The scheme runs from January into March, allowing time for the participants to develop work, or work-in-progress, to be shown at CPT’s prestigious Sprint festival in March over a dedicated weekend.

Applicants can apply with just an idea, or if you have started to develop the idea but now need space, structure, and peer support to develop it further, this would also be acceptable. However the piece must not have been already been developed at another organisation, or with the financial support of a funding body.

The scheme will be overseen by CPT’s directors Brian Logan and Jenny Paton, who will select participants by application form and interview from an open call for submissions.
The deadline for Sprint and Starting Blocks applications are both midday 20th December.
Please email admin@cptheatre.co.uk for an application form for Sprint or Starting Blocks, or more information.[/five_sixth_last]