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All Wear Bowlers - Presented in association with barbicanbite07

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Date:  Friday 26 January 2007 Time:  7.45 pm Venue:  Barbican, The Pit Price:  £10.50 SCGB members, £11.50 non-members Deadline:

Join us to see Geoff Sobelle , a Stanford alum ‘97 and Co-creater and performer in “All Wear Bowlers” at the Barbican. After the performance , Geoff has invited our guests to meet up with him for an informal chat (details to follow).   All Wear Bowlers 'As slick and funny as anything you'll see. It is a technical tour de force, so accomplished that it takes your breath away.' The Guardian   In this absurdist vaudevillian comedy, two silent movie comics fall literally off screen to find themselves unexpectedly in front of a live audience. Amidst mounting mayhem, struggling to make sense of the situation and get back into the film, they become only more disoriented. With moments of pathos reminiscent of a Laurel and Hardy film and the desolate humour of a Beckett play, All Wear Bowlers is a deliriously oddball exploration of identity, memory, nostalgia and amnesia. In a surreal landscape at once funny and mysterious, the quick-fire action unfolds in a series of hilarious variety routines, stage magic and venomous ventriloquism. Rainpan 43 are actors Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford. They created and premiered All Wear Bowlers in Philadelphia in 2003, since when the show has enjoyed successful seasons in New York and Los Angeles, at the Edinburgh Fringe and has toured in Europe and Asia. London premiere   Geoff Sobelle - Stanford ‘97   (Co-Creator / Earnest) is the co-artistic director of rainpan43. He is a Philadelphia-based theatre artist, where he is a company member of the Pig Iron Theatre Company, an Obie Award-winning ensemble-based physical theatre company that has just celebrated its ten year anniversary. Regional credits include Hal in Proof and Jacques/Oliver/Silvius in As You Like It with Arden Theatre Company, Sebastian in Twelfth Night at Folger Theatre and Antipholus of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors at Lantern Theater Company as well as Kinesias in Lysistrata and Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Stanford University. Geoff was awarded an Independence Foundation Fellowship and a grant from the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative (PTI) to create all wear bowlers with Trey, which won an Innovative Theatre Award in New York and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. He recently received a second grant from PTI to produce an absurdist Rube Goldberg-inspired piece, machines machines machines machines machines machines machines next season in Philadelphia with rainpan43. He has been nominated for three Barrymore Awards—including the prestigious F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist—and was named “Best Theater Talent 2004” by Philadelphia Magazine. MosT recently, he received a 2006 Pew Fellowship in the Arts as a performance artist. Geoff is a graduate of Stanford, and trained at École Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France   BOOKING   Price: £10.50 SCGB members, £11.50 non-members   To sign up, please click on the following link: > http://www.eventbrite.com/event/45325570 < (A new page will open up)   OR Send your cheque, made payable to: The Stanford Club of Great Britain c/o 11 Charleville Circus London SE26 6NR Please give your full name/s, degree/year and contact information. Guests are welcome.     Bookings & Club Membership Info.: Contact our Events Director, Lesleyanne Hunt - lesley.hunt@stanfordalumni.org.uk

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