madolesance
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How much carbon can be captured from manufacturing steel as compared to growing trees?
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
None. How much can be captured from manufacturing CLT? And what assumptions does your answer make, about what happens to it when the building reaches the end of its life?
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
What on earth have they done to the Mansions? It looks like they have turned them into a factory.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
That's a bit of a shame - I'm a fan of things that end up with the wrong place in their name for historical reasons. If we can have Fulham Timber and the Surrey canal why not Oval House theatre.
Brixton House sounds a bit like a DJ bar.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Because the canal was covered or because Surrey moved?
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Good to see a truly diverse selection here Brixton House theatre announces its inaugural Associate Artists ahead of their late 2021 opening
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First major project from Brixton House
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Brixton House launch ‘On These Streets’ – an interactive audio experience around Brixton, 27th Aug – 30th Sept 2021
The new Brixton House on Coldharbour Lane is yet to be completed, but the theatre company has launched their first major project called, ‘On These Streets.’
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Really excellent opportunities for young people looking to get some more info or experience in the creative arts, as well as practitioners offering an insight to what they do.
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Soar Creative Careers Programme | Brixton House
Find out how to get a career in the arts. FREE sessions for young people aged 13–16. Visit Brixton House before it opens, have a mini workshop with our Associate Artists and talk to the team about their jobs.
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spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
This sounds amazing, but all the dates on that page are in the past…(?)Really excellent opportunities for young people looking to get some more info or experience in the creative arts, as well as practitioners offering an insight to what they do.
Soar Creative Careers Programme | Brixton House
Find out how to get a career in the arts. FREE sessions for young people aged 13–16. Visit Brixton House before it opens, have a mini workshop with our Associate Artists and talk to the team about their jobs.
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Jobs on offer
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Brixton House theatre are hiring – drop in today (11th Nov) to see what’s on offer…
Brixton House theatre company are inviting locals to their ‘Drop into our Job Shop’ event today (11th November) and find out what it’ll be like to work in their new theatre in the heart…
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Purdy lights!
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Brixton House lights up as the theatre nears completion
Progress continues on the new Brixton House theatre in central Brixton, which is located on the corner of Coldharbour Lane and Somerleyton Road. Ahead of their opening in early 2022, the strips of …
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Opens on the 24th Feb
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Brixton House theatre to open to the public on the 24th Feb 2022
Brixton House will open its doors to the public on the 24th February 2022 with two international shows and a taster programme of activities until 5th March when the venue will open all areas includ…
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Very vibrant !
blameless77
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My god! Where is the actual pavement? That will be a nightmare to navigate if there’s a show on. What about people that might want to get past without having to cross the road?
Gramsci
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These so called anti terrorist measures don't make a lot of sense to me.
Plus this is particularly in your face and out of keeping with a conservation area.
Does not make the new theatre seem open and welcoming.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
My favourite Oval House production was Nabil Shaban and Gaeae doing "The Flesh Fly" - an adaption of Ben Johnson's "Volpone"
Graeae had a star lead actor in Nabil Shahan - of extra appeal in my semi-autistic eyes because Nabil had played "Sil" - a revoltingly megalomaniac reptile-dictator of a slave mining planet in the BBC series Dr Who. His contempt for anyone and everyone was a grandiose as Servelan in Blake's Seven.
In Volpone/The Fesh Fly Nabil played a fake invalid conning people out of all their inheritances by changing their wills.
Seems rather topical for a play originally written in 1605, but it seems scamming is eternal!
A 1999 book on Ben Johnson describe Graeae's production The Flesh Fly thus:
Post-colonial appropriation of Jonson in Australia was matched the same year within the metropolis by a daring appropriation of Volpone as Flesh Fly by Graeae Theatre Company for the Disabled (Oval House, 1996). The programme actually defined their objective as a conscious ‘abduction’ of a classic in the wake of their success in staging Jarry’s Ubu. The marginalised were given creative voice in a complete rethinking of the comedy; and this point was quickly established by the director’s decision to present the whole play from the perspective of Volpone’s servants, Nano, Androgyno and Castrone (the sexually and physically marginalised). Rarely has the imagery of disease and degeneration in the text carried such weight, which only made the counter-theme of the increasingly manic cerebral inventions of the characters seem that much more desperate and absurd. The wheelchair-bound Nabil Shaban playing Volpone opined that, as a disabled actor impersonating an able-bodied man pretending to be disabled and afflicted, he could push his comic invention to levels of the grotesque and surreal that no able-bodied performer in the role would dare to do. Consequently, the sheer physicality of the action in depicting a mass rush for wealth was marked. There were other gains, particularly in the playing of the two main female roles by a deaf actor (Neil Fox). It is a tradition with Graeae that the performance is accompanied by a Sign Language Interpreter who is integrated into the action and not marginalised, as in conventional theatre, to the side of the stage. It was therefore a considerable surprise when this hitherto mute figure suddenly spoke aloud Celia’s words even as she signed them, while Fox mimed exquisitely Celia’s plight. Fox transformed himself deftly into Lady Politic Would-be with a minor adjustment to his costume; his miming in this role became grosser, caricatured and more rapid, while the voice was now provided by the other female member of the cast, Mandy Colleran, who adopted a thick Mancunian accent and an unstoppable volubility. This casting decision incisively problematised the whole issue of male constructions of the feminine both in the play and in Renaissance theatre practice: women as the silenced presences whose voices are disturbingly ventriloquised. Equally disturbing was the performance of Jamie Beddard, whose speech and movement are affected by cerebral palsy, as Corbaccio. The text makes fun of the ways Corbaccio’s age and near-senility affect his speech, sight and movement, which Mosca and Volpone satirise with cruel glee. Here it was less easy for the able-bodied members of the audience to laugh (the cruelty was more apparent than the fun), though the disabled members of the audience found his performance uproarious, as if they had earned the right to laugh. Here that factionalising of the audience which Jonson frequently promotes came forcefully alive to one’s awareness, causing one to question the grounds on which one might laugh. A theatre for the marginalised had here appropriated Jonson, had creatively interrogated the text and had found from a distinct and unusual perspective the means to reinstate elements of danger within the performance, particularly for able-bodied spectators.
I hope we may get productions of this quality and political clout at Brixton in due course.
Graeae had a star lead actor in Nabil Shahan - of extra appeal in my semi-autistic eyes because Nabil had played "Sil" - a revoltingly megalomaniac reptile-dictator of a slave mining planet in the BBC series Dr Who. His contempt for anyone and everyone was a grandiose as Servelan in Blake's Seven.
In Volpone/The Fesh Fly Nabil played a fake invalid conning people out of all their inheritances by changing their wills.
Seems rather topical for a play originally written in 1605, but it seems scamming is eternal!
A 1999 book on Ben Johnson describe Graeae's production The Flesh Fly thus:
Post-colonial appropriation of Jonson in Australia was matched the same year within the metropolis by a daring appropriation of Volpone as Flesh Fly by Graeae Theatre Company for the Disabled (Oval House, 1996). The programme actually defined their objective as a conscious ‘abduction’ of a classic in the wake of their success in staging Jarry’s Ubu. The marginalised were given creative voice in a complete rethinking of the comedy; and this point was quickly established by the director’s decision to present the whole play from the perspective of Volpone’s servants, Nano, Androgyno and Castrone (the sexually and physically marginalised). Rarely has the imagery of disease and degeneration in the text carried such weight, which only made the counter-theme of the increasingly manic cerebral inventions of the characters seem that much more desperate and absurd. The wheelchair-bound Nabil Shaban playing Volpone opined that, as a disabled actor impersonating an able-bodied man pretending to be disabled and afflicted, he could push his comic invention to levels of the grotesque and surreal that no able-bodied performer in the role would dare to do. Consequently, the sheer physicality of the action in depicting a mass rush for wealth was marked. There were other gains, particularly in the playing of the two main female roles by a deaf actor (Neil Fox). It is a tradition with Graeae that the performance is accompanied by a Sign Language Interpreter who is integrated into the action and not marginalised, as in conventional theatre, to the side of the stage. It was therefore a considerable surprise when this hitherto mute figure suddenly spoke aloud Celia’s words even as she signed them, while Fox mimed exquisitely Celia’s plight. Fox transformed himself deftly into Lady Politic Would-be with a minor adjustment to his costume; his miming in this role became grosser, caricatured and more rapid, while the voice was now provided by the other female member of the cast, Mandy Colleran, who adopted a thick Mancunian accent and an unstoppable volubility. This casting decision incisively problematised the whole issue of male constructions of the feminine both in the play and in Renaissance theatre practice: women as the silenced presences whose voices are disturbingly ventriloquised. Equally disturbing was the performance of Jamie Beddard, whose speech and movement are affected by cerebral palsy, as Corbaccio. The text makes fun of the ways Corbaccio’s age and near-senility affect his speech, sight and movement, which Mosca and Volpone satirise with cruel glee. Here it was less easy for the able-bodied members of the audience to laugh (the cruelty was more apparent than the fun), though the disabled members of the audience found his performance uproarious, as if they had earned the right to laugh. Here that factionalising of the audience which Jonson frequently promotes came forcefully alive to one’s awareness, causing one to question the grounds on which one might laugh. A theatre for the marginalised had here appropriated Jonson, had creatively interrogated the text and had found from a distinct and unusual perspective the means to reinstate elements of danger within the performance, particularly for able-bodied spectators.
I hope we may get productions of this quality and political clout at Brixton in due course.
urbanspaceman
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There is a long article in the Evening Standard
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Brixton House: London’s newest theatre is ready for its audience
The theatre formerly known as Ovalhouse has a state of the art new home in Brixton - and its artistic director Gbolahan Obisesan wants to turn its audience into artists
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I wasn't invited to last night's opening show but I'll be there for the press night in the 1st and will post up pics...There is a long article in the Evening Standard
Brixton House: London’s newest theatre is ready for its audience
The theatre formerly known as Ovalhouse has a state of the art new home in Brixton - and its artistic director Gbolahan Obisesan wants to turn its audience into artists
The cafe/bar space on the ground floor looks very nice and looks like somewhere I could hang out!
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Went on Saturday to Tonderai's Zimbabawe show.
It was very apt as an opening show.
Hope to go again soon. Everyone was very welcoming. Great this has happened amongst all the doom on arts funding.
It was very apt as an opening show.
Hope to go again soon. Everyone was very welcoming. Great this has happened amongst all the doom on arts funding.
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
It's "somewhere" in the middle of things whereas Oval House felt like nowhere despite being a bit more central. I hope it thrives. It looks a good place just meet up during the day too.
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Photos from the marvellous opening night
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In photos: Brixton House theatre opens in Brixton, Tues 1st March 2022
Last night, the new Brixton House theatre on Coldharbour Lane opened and despite the awful weather and tube strike, a large crowd were in attendance.
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Theatre review
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New Brixton Theatre sets marker with sardonic look at colonialism, race and sexuality
As Tonderai Munyevu leaves the stage, an elated cheer erupts like a huge breath of fresh air, pushing upwards into the wet and windy Brixton night. And the work Mugabe, My Dad and Me, which he wrot…
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Loving the new exhibition space
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In photos: Perception is Reality art show by Damilola Odusote at the Brixton House theatre
Currently on display at the splendid new art space in the recently opened Brixton House theatre is Damilola Odusote’s solo show, ‘Perception is Reality.’
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