Doppelgangster's TITANIC - National Theatre Wales Community2024-03-28T11:20:05Zhttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/forum/topics/doppelgangster-s-titanic?groupUrl=doppelgangster&commentId=3152760%3AComment%3A255107&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noTitanic - SiteWorks (Brunswic…tag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2016-07-08:3152760:Comment:2551072016-07-08T04:50:37.200ZDr Tom Paynehttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/tompayne
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<p>Doppelgangster is a UK/Australian collaboration between MKA's Tobias Manderson-Galvin and British academic and performance maker Dr Tom Payne. This new theatre company aims to respond to urgent concerns such as climate change, migration, community and class and dives headfirst into all of these issues in the stunningly messy and chaotic <i>Titanic</i>.</p>
<p>If you've ever thought theatre is boring, or tired, or recycling old ideas — then dammit, you owe it to yourself to see this show. Every time we start to describe what the show is about, words fail us; narrative construct isn't exactly what you would call conventional in this reframing of the 1997 film. Filled with cheeky academic dissection, hilarious moments of anti-theatre and astute commentary on climate change and migration, this show is active, present, high energy, funny and politically on point. An amazing prog-rock/jazz-metal soundtrack from Melbourne-based composer Mr Jules Pascoe is just the icing on the cake. Doppelgangster's <i>TITANIC</i> is the definition of coordinated chaos: the ocean lights up in flames, champagne spurts in celebration, a naked man drowns (while standing upright in front of a shipping container sculpture of the Titanic) and at one stage you have to jump out of your seat to avoid being hit by a car coming through the middle of the audience. There's only two more performances, just go see it. Dress warm.</p> Titanic review: MKA and Doppe…tag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2016-07-08:3152760:Comment:2551062016-07-08T04:44:39.902ZDr Tom Paynehttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/tompayne
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<p>Punk performance art inspired by James Cameron's 1997 disaster film<span> Titanic</span>? What better to capture the mood of the nation on the eve of the federal election?</p>
<p>There's probably no way of describing <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.doppelgangster.com/titanic/">Doppelgangster's</a><span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.doppelgangster.com/titanic/"> Titanic</a> </span>that couldn't easily apply to the ballot result. A surreal and satirical rage against the machine, it's a show that rips up all the rules and delivers some uncomfortable surprises, even if the message is a bit incoherent in its defiance.</p>
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<p>Theatrical saboteurs Tobias Manderson-Galvin and Tom Payne have built a suitably epic outdoor set for sinking the blockbuster's aesthetic. A shipping container flanked by a step-pyramid of fibrous bricks, a constantly weeping sheet of stage rain, buckets of icy water arranged in front. </p>
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<p>It begins by setting fire to a puddle. Manderson-Galvin emerges as director James Cameron in full ship's captain attire, Payne is dressed as Leonardo DiCaprio.</p>
<p>They proceed to spew forth a torrent of words: low-key personal anecdotes about the pressure to see the movie everyone else has seen, Dadaist rants cribbed from the <span>Titanic</span> DVD's special features, poetic intimations of refugees on leaky boats, and subversions of the film script that skewer and suburbanise romantic convention, as Jules Pascoe's percussive post-rock score blares throughout.</p>
<p>This may be an anti-epic, and the freezing midwinter night made the audience feel like the iceberg of the piece, but<span> Titanic</span> still delivers lashings of the brazen monumentality it lampoons. At one point, Payne ploughs a car into the seating bank, forcing the audience to pick up chairs and flee. And there's a nude scene from Manderson-Galvin – a blow by blow description would be unpublishable, and I wouldn't want to ruin it anyway – that's pure hilarity.</p>
<p>Sure, there's a puerile aspect to<span> Titanic's</span> humour, and large chunks of the show converge on some underworld where post-dramatic and post-taste theatre converge, but it's also very funny in a baffling, offbeat way. It's the kind of restless, utterly original indie performance Melbourne used to have a lot more of.</p>
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Doppelgangster’s TIT…tag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2016-07-08:3152760:Comment:2552122016-07-08T04:36:57.381ZDr Tom Paynehttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/tompayne
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<div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>I missed the memo about Doppelgangster’s TITANIC being performed outside so I was pretty cold as I watched the performance, in March, in the arts centre car park. I hate the cold. Everyone who knows me know I’m always cold and can be seen wearing my warm winter coat throughout the year. However, as cold as I was, <strong>I was gripped by this wonderful show</strong>and desperate to see where the <strong>one hour tour de force </strong>would take me.</p>
<p>Inspiration for the piece has been drawn from the screenplay from James Cameron’s Oscar-winning film,<em> Titanic</em>.</p>
<p>The ‘Titanic’ of this performance was a large metal shipping container, situated in the car park.</p>
<p>The audience, which sadly only numbered around twenty people when the piece deserved to be seen by many more, assembled in the arts centre box office before being led to the container, where the captain of the ship waved us, his passengers, to our seats. Well, sort of.</p>
<p>Plastic stacked seats for the audience to put out themselves, buckets of water in rows in front of the container to make us wonder if we were going to get wet and very loud music, set the scene.</p>
<p><strong>The soundtrack to the show was fantastic, </strong>setting the fast pace matched by the performers, Aberystwyth based academic and performance maker Tom Payne and Australian actor/writer Tobias Manderson-Galvin. It did, at times, drown out their voices, especially at the start of the show, but a small tweak on the levels will sort that out.</p>
<p>Tom and Tobias play various parts from the film including Jack and Rose, and Celine Dion even gets an outing!</p>
<p>With so much water, electricity and a car driving through the audience (yes, you did read that right), I can see why the arts centre had reservations about safety, but the edginess of the performance enhanced my enjoyment and almost made me forget the cold.</p>
<p>This is the kind of theatre you usually see at Edinburgh Fringe. To watch it in Aberyswyth was<strong> a real treat.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Review by </strong><br/><strong>Julie McNicholls Vale</strong></p>
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</div> New date for show deemed ‘too…tag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2016-07-08:3152760:Comment:2549572016-07-08T04:34:24.159ZDr Tom Paynehttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/tompayne
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<p class="pfont-xsmall">Thursday, 10 March 2016 By <a href="mailto:julie@cambrian-news.co.uk?subject=Article:%20New%20date%20for%20show%20deemed%20%27too%20dangerous%20to%20perform%27">Julie McNicholls Vale</a> in …</p>
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<p class="pfont-xsmall">Thursday, 10 March 2016 By <a href="mailto:julie@cambrian-news.co.uk?subject=Article:%20New%20date%20for%20show%20deemed%20%27too%20dangerous%20to%20perform%27">Julie McNicholls Vale</a> in <a href="http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/archive.cfm?sectionIs=news&cat=Entertainment">Entertainment</a> from <a href="http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=102879&headline=New%20date%20for%20show%20deemed%20%27too%20dangerous%20to%20perform%27&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2016">CAMBRIAN NEWS</a></p>
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<p class="pfont-lead">A NEW date has been set for a show that was initially deemed too dangerous to perform.</p>
<p class="temp-fix-brad">UK/Australian company Doppelgangster announces a one off showing of the controversial site-specific performance, Doppelgangster’s TITANIC. The company performed the piece on Monday at Aberystwyth Arts Centre as part of SITE 2 / SAFLE 2 Festival. It was due to be performed again on Tuesday evening, but was cancelled because of serious concerns about performer safety.</p>
<p>“It’s a show about a terrible tragedy, and we hope that a fraction of the terror comes across in the work,” said TITANIC performer, Tom Payne.</p>
<p>“On this occasion, some of the physical action and the sequences involving lots of water looked more believable than we had anticipated. We’ve worked the concerns through with the Arts Centre, who have been really brilliant, and are delighted to announce that Doppelgangster’s TITANIC will be returning next Wednesday, 16 March, at 6.30pm, looking as dangerous as ever.”</p>
<p>Doppelgangster’s TITANIC is described as an hilarious outdoor show that takes a satirical and troubling look at migration through the frame of Cameron’s 1997 Hollywood tearjerker.</p>
<p>Aberystwyth based academic and performance maker Tom Payne and Australian actor/writer Tobias Manderson-Galvin lead the production in the absurdly comic roles of ‘an aging but handsome Leonardo Dicaprio’, and ‘James/David Cameron’.</p>
<p>“We’ve ripped up the screenplay from Cameron’s film and a maelstrom of other sources including the Titanic DVD Special Features Disk and eyewitness, survivor accounts of people who actually saw the film at the movies. Doppelgangster’s TITANIC is about ‘educated guesses’, ‘operational matters’ and the impossible pursuit of ‘truth,” said Tobias.</p>
<p>The production features an original prog-rock/jazz metal soundtrack from Melbourne based composer Mr Jules Pascoe (The Conglomerate, Husky), and will be performed from a shipping container located outside the Arts Centre, kindly provided by mid-Wales based Dylan Thomas Cranes.</p>
<p>Doppelgangster’s TITANIC was developed with support from National Theatre Wales, and has been presented at Chapter Arts Centre (Cardiff), and in Paris as a part of ArtCOP21, a global festival of cultural activity that ran parallel to the UN Climate Talks in December, 2015. Doppelgangster’s TITANIC is the first piece to be performed by Doppelgangster in Aberystwyth since its official appointment as an Associate Company at the Arts Centre.</p> 28 FEB 2016 TEXT | TITANIC, H…tag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2016-07-08:3152760:Comment:2550262016-07-08T04:31:28.414ZDr Tom Paynehttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/tompayne
<h2 class="entry_title"><a href="http://www.doppelgangster.com/text-titanic-h-spoon/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">28 FEB 2016 TEXT | TITANIC, H. SPOON</a></h2>
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<div class="post_info"><span class="time"><br/></span><div class="blog_share qode_share"><div class="social_share_holder"><div class="social_share_dropdown"><div class="inner_arrow"><b>The following piece responds to the performance of <em>TITANIC</em> by Doppelgangster’s Tobias and Tom, and co-conspirator Rachel Helena Walsh at La G</b><span class="s1"><b>é</b></span><b>n</b><span class="s1"><b>é</b></span><b>rale artist/activist cooperative in Paris on 9th December 2015, deep in the midst of the state of emergency, the COP21 climate negotiations, and the many associated activist interventions. La G</b><span class="s1"><b>é</b></span><b>n</b><span class="s1"><b>é</b></span><b>rale is a huge whale’s belly of a room, ripe for filling by any challenging ideas ambling in. DOPPELGANGSTER really provided the plankton.</b></div>
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<p class="p1">HooOOoOOO0o0o0o000O0O0OooooooOO0000O0o0o0o0o0o0OOOwl!</p>
<p class="p1">DOPPELGANGSTER became comrades of Howling Spoon in Paris, and, since a still unascertained number of spoons were lost in the sinking of the Titanic, laying now still somewhere beneath sediment on the ocean bed – rusting in peace we hope – our movement felt a (literally) deep connection to their performance at 19.30, 9<span>th</span> December, 2015 at La Générale, 14 Avenue Parmentier, Paris, France, Europe, Earth, Milky Way, The Spooniverse.</p>
<p class="p1">Of (first) course, the line, “I ate a spoon once”, was draw-shakingly chilling for us, reminding each spoon in the audience of their primary function to feed, to provide, as counterpoised against the restrictions we commonly face in fairly fulfilling this purpose, this promise. Was the spoon mentioned in TITANIC eaten out of decadence or desperation? Was it a perpetuation of, or a reaction to, the inequality against which we conscious spoons howl? In either case, it is a terrifying prospect. This was one of many moments in which Doppelgangster lent us fuel for HOOo0oooo00o0o0o0OOOOo0o0o0o00wling!</p>
<p class="p1">Of (main) course, within such a thoroughly anthropocentric artistic landscape, we have come to expect no less than a de facto exclusion from most cultural discourse, however, to our comrades at DOPPELGANGSTER, we exhort them to consider in future performances the intersections between the political and ecological injustices affecting spoonkind as well as humankind, and all the sister species we share. UNITED WE FEED; DIVIDED WE BLEED!</p>
<p class="p1">Of (third, and final) course, we would like to raise a ladle to DOPPELGANGSTER, applaud their subversive buzzing above that auld sinking ship orchestra, and thank them for the spoons we shared. ADIEU, ADIEU!</p>
<hr/><p class="p3"><span><strong>Howling Spoon is </strong><b>a member of a revolt of conscious cutlery with its epicentre</b><strong> in a kitchen in Glasgow, Scotland.</strong></span></p> 22 FEB 2016 TEXT | TITANIC, H…tag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2016-07-08:3152760:Comment:2551052016-07-08T04:28:14.694ZDr Tom Paynehttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/tompayne
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<p class="p1"><span><b>The following piece responds to the performance of <em>TITANIC</em> by Doppelgangster’s Tobias and Tom, and co-conspirator Rachel Helena Walsh at La G</b><span class="s1"><b>é</b></span><b>n</b><span class="s1"><b>é</b></span><b>rale artist/activist cooperative in Paris on 9<span>th</span> December 2015, deep in the midst of the state of emergency, the COP21 climate negotiations, and the many associated activist interventions. La G</b><span class="s1"><b>é</b></span><b>n</b><span class="s1"><b>é</b></span><b>rale is a huge whale’s belly of a room, ripe for filling by any challenging ideas ambling in. DOPPELGANGSTER really provided the plankton.</b><span class="s2"><b><br/></b></span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span>I’ve been thinking recently about what to term performance that escalates the absurdity of tragicomedy and goes beyond it, and, mostly in conversations with myself, although sometimes in conversations with others (humans, pigeons, and spoons), I’ve tentatively begun talking about mogitramedy. I think that DOPPELGANGSTER’S TITANIC, as performed in Paris during COP21, was mogitramic. By this I mean I consistently found the performance simultaneously hilarious and crushing; unabashedly fun whilst absolutely non-frivolous; simmering with hyperactive disillusion.</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span>For instance, a recurring song about a ‘floatation device’, increasingly funny with each preoccupied repetition by the ‘director’, James Cameron/Tobias Manderson-Galvin, carried with it an unavoidable reminder of the smug self-centredness of privileged tokenism regarding climate change: ‘<em>the sea may engulf Bangladesh, but I’ve got my floatation device’</em>. The later inclusion of a racist ragtime tune, sang as the ship inevitably sinks, the performers lingering over each patronising, prejudiced lyric, produced a similar unsettling effect that remained darkly humorous in its unspoken-yet-seething criticality. Such a mogitramic device served to underline the farcical privilege of those who could minimise the harm caused by climate change (wealthy / powerful / disproportionately white) in contrast to those who face the gravest dangers (poor / disempowered / disproportionately brown).</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span>Such witty critique was omnipresent throughout TITANIC, as further demonstrated by the slapstick eruption of champagne into Tobias’ crotch, and subsequent change of underwear meticulously stuffed with wine-engorged socks. This was immediately funny, whilst a man with a champagne-soaked-penis-extension directing a collision with an iceberg needs little unwrapping as a critical metaphor for the dominance of wealthy men in orchestrating false solutions to climate change. In sharp connection to all this, the line, “music to drown by, now I know I’m in first class”, delivered with jolting solemnity by Jack/Tom Payne, hung in the air until I could smell it. As artists responding to an age characterised by ever-increasing climate catastrophe, escalating religious fanaticism and conflict, and the tightening of borders that should never have existed, it does often feel like we’re making music to drown by. And, whilst it is awful, there is somehow often humour within this condition. TITANIC spoke to me because it harnessed and exploded this paradox with aplomb.</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span>The activist and politically engaged artist condition is, in my experience and observations, inescapably absurd, in that huge socio-political shifts are desired, yet in reality we temporarily shut down one business, or perform a show in front of a small audience, whilst ‘the machine’ keeps turning almost entirely unscathed. Candidly acknowledging such limitation and incorporating its humour into performance practice itself, laughing at ourselves as well as those we oppose, I augur allows us to, echoing Beckett, ‘go on’ despite what might otherwise be a crippling absence of hope. I feel TITANIC displayed this reflexive self-awareness in droves, playing with purposelessness in an invigoratingly generative way, re-evaluating through practice the role of performance in the face of catastrophe and chaos. This was summarised with Tobias’ utterance of the single word, “theatre”, followed by silence, succinctly drawing the audience to consider what ‘theatre’ might mean in relation to the socio-political and ecological issues cacophonously juggled before them.</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span>The apex of the performance, for me, was the delivery of Celine Dion’s <em>‘My Heart Will Go On</em>’ (relevant in sentiment to the themes of coping and continuance mentioned above), but with the first line ‘Every night in my dreams’ repeated throughout the tune, accompanied by the projection of footage from Paris ’68. Expressing grievance at the successful oppression of contemporary mass uprising, I feel TITANIC’s critique of the farcical status quo of power and wealth distribution within contemporary climate-change-perpetuating capitalism could have easily become too on-the-nose. However, through the condensing of Celine Dion, in stark juxtaposition with silenced footage of quasi-mythical protest, the audience were not assaulted with accusations of apathy, but instead made to step back and laugh at a gamut of ridiculousness running from pop-culture superficiality and short-term political and cultural memory, through to myopic emphasis upon aspirations/dreams which ignores disproportions in cultural capital.</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span>The song and footage provided a moment of reflection on the previous moments of the performance and its setting within the elaborate circus of COP21, and, on a more personal note, gave space for me to consider what had brought me to Paris and what I hoped to achieve there.</span></p>
<hr/><p class="p3"><span><strong>Hugh Sillitoe is an artist, activist, poet, performer, and academic researcher based in Glasgow, Scotland.</strong></span></p>
<p><em>Photo Credit: Sebastien Jamain</em></p> Amidst All the Melting Iceber…tag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2016-02-12:3152760:Comment:2456142016-02-12T12:00:00.971ZDr Tom Paynehttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/tompayne
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<div class="body-text"><p>I have one more story from Paris. A fun one. About a Rose, an unsinkable ship, and a freezing Nazi warehouse.</p>
<p>During the second week of the climate talks, I the dynamic performance art duo, Tom Payne and Tobias Alexander Edward Manderson-Galvin – i.e. DOPPELGANGSTER – and sassy, sacrilegious Irish artist Rachel Helena Walsh, their resident Doppel-co-conspirator. They are funny. They told me about their upcoming performance: a new interpretation of James Cameron’s TITANIC. Très intèressant. And with the group tagline “a cultural response to climate change, forced migration and globalization,” how could I stay away?</p>
<p>Dopplegangster’s TITANIC. Based on every sappy fool’s favorite ship-sinking, car-steaming, jewel-tossing, trans-Atlantic romance of star-crossed lovers. I admit to being such a fool. You know the movie, right? Picture that scene, Rose balancing on the bow of the Titanic, with Jack nestling up behind her supportively, affectionately, as notes of Celine Dion blow past on the sea wind. Now, let the colors and the salty breeze melt away. Let the bow of the ship morph into the second-floor railing of an old Nazi-boot-factory-turned-community-space-and-bar. Let Rose morph into a manically somber woman, with fear into her eyes, and Jack into a violent, screaming alcoholic. An impassioned James Cameron paces the gray, concrete floor below them, wildly shouting WHAT IT TAKES TO PRODUCE THIS EPIC MASTERPIECE OF A FILM. THERE WILL BE CASUALTIES. Jack borrows a lighter from the audience and the fireworks commence, singing off only a bit of Tom’s fingertips. Rose eats rose petals. The ship is sinking, as we all knew it would. I forgot to wait expectantly for Rose and Jack’s passionate kiss. Only yelling and burning, frantically running and frantically sitting still-as-ice as the reeled scenes from France’s 1960s student riots.</p>
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<p>There’s a particular feeling that comes with laughing at . I felt something similar.</p>
<p>From the front row – specifically the cold cement floor – I was partially laughing and partially sitting in semi-comprehending silence. The actors were hurtled along with the audience. Tom later pointed out to me, context matters for TITANIC. The first time they performed it, they did so in an empty storage crate. This time, we were in Paris, and negotiators from around the world were trying to form an agreement to combat global warming. The three of them recorded the revised script the night before, and played it into their headphones as they acted. They change the script with each new audience and setting, it more relevant.</p>
<p>Was it relevant? Was this Titanic? Was this about global warming?</p>
<p>An ocean voyage. What are Jack and Rose but faceless, recently infamous immigrants? Shivering in the cavernous cold warehouse (where they actually use a ping-pong table for “heating”), I could almost imagine shivering in the depths of a boat in third class, as Jack did. Or in the only class that little dinghys attempting passage from Africa to Europe nowadays provide: star-side seats, ocean view, exposed to the wind, and left to the mercy of storms, coast guards, and immigration agents. The Titanic was a journey based on hope too. They didn’t make it to America either. How many more Jacks and Roses will die upon these migrant ships? Global warming will send many more to the metaphorical nation-less sea. They won’t have to worry about icebergs though! *THUMBS UP* *WINK*</p>
<p>Violence. Unfairness. Sacrifice. At one point Tobie-as-Cameron yelled about accidents on set during film production. But for 11 Academy Awards! Worth it? Jack for Rose – worth it? Don’t fill up the lifeboats, they might be too heavy to escape – worth it? The rich for the poor, first class for third – worth it? The solutions seem to be as violent as the problems they claim to solve.</p>
<p>Global warming. Titanic poses the central question for us: are we all on a sinking ship, H.M.S. Mother Earth? Right now, we in the United States are in first class, with full access to the lifeboats. Third class is already filling up with water, and we’re enjoying the orchestra, still left with time to deny that our boat is really in trouble.</p>
<p>I’d call all that relevant, and Titanic. We produced an agreement in Paris, which is the Titanic-equivalent of deciding to put lifeboats on the ship. Now we have to make sure we have enough, and have a proper plan to deploy them when necessary. Kind of all the important parts.</p>
<p>This can be depressing stuff. Thank god we left it to Doppelgangster. I’ve seen Titanic, but not this version. It makes further revisions seem possible. I left thinking and laughing. And hoping. </p>
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<div>Réflexion autour des migrations climatiques avec une pièce décapante (en anglais) du collectif <a href="http://www.doppelgangster.com/titanic/">Dopplegangster.</a></div>
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<p><strong>EXPERIMENTICA15: ARE YOU ASKING FOR EVIDENCE OF THE TRUTH?</strong></p>
<p>EXPERIMENTICA is a 5-day programme of live art, performance and interdisciplinary projects and offers a dynamic platform for UK and international artists. EXPERIMENTICA is entertaining, dangerous, confusing,…</p>
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<h1>EXPERIMENTICA15: Doppelgangster - Titanic 5-7 Nov 2015</h1>
<p><strong>EXPERIMENTICA15: ARE YOU ASKING FOR EVIDENCE OF THE TRUTH?</strong></p>
<p>EXPERIMENTICA is a 5-day programme of live art, performance and interdisciplinary projects and offers a dynamic platform for UK and international artists. EXPERIMENTICA is entertaining, dangerous, confusing, life-affirming, playful, provocative, thoughtful, witty, engaging, irritating and everything in between.</p>
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