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News: May 2010: After a fantastic run of My Prosthetic Soul Mr & Mrs Clark would like to thank the dedication and commitment of cast and crew (check the shows section for full listings). The two shows were really well received and completely sold out both nights. Clarks are now preparing to work with Marc Rees and The National Theatre of Wales as well as developing a visual exhibition of Marega's art and performance work in tactileBOSCH in September. My Prosthetic Soul is also being developed on a smaller scale to tour in collaboration with Volcano Theatre Company in 2011, opening at Chapter Arts Centre in March. April
2010: After a magnificent run of Bezerkus at Chapter Arts Centre,
Mr and Mrs Clark now embark on their biggest and most ambitious project
to date with some of the country’s best up and coming talent.
Mr and Mrs Clark in association with Swansea Metropolitan University
will present My Prosthetic Soul “a
medical musical extravaganza” at The Townhill Theatre,
Swansea on 12th and 13th May 2010. If you have enjoyed any of the Clarks
past projects for their entertaining and at times moving examination
of the human condition then this will be unmissable!!! Book now to avoid
disappointment. Dec 2009 - You Tube clip of "My Prosthetic Soul" now available to view. Also available in the Shows section of this site. Full production is scheduled for next year with support of the Arts Council For Wales. Mr and Mrs Clark will also be working with Marc Rees in Barmouth as part of the National Theatre of Wales project For Mountain, Sand and Sea. --- Click to find out more. This is a site specfic piece in July ..... so lovely weather then! December 2009 - Mr and Mrs Clark will running audition workshops in Swansea Metropolitan University for next years Unknown Pleasures to be directed by Simon Harris. Dates have also been confirmed for February’s performance of Bezerkus at Chapter Arts Centre, featuring the talented Lara Lloyd and Rosalind Brookes. Mr and Mrs Clark are also delighted to announce they will be guest lecturing a Physical Theatre module at Swansea Met as well as directing a second year production in the spring. Marega Palser's short film "Mark Making - Time To Be A Corner" is available to view on www.culturecolony.com/videos October 2009 - Back again for more. The Clarks are returning to performance installation for a short tour of the more experimental theatre festivals. Starting with a return to the Dylan Thomas Fringe festival on Friday 6th November with the reflective and perhaps indulgent "NINE", a montage of past pieces placed on a menu to be selected by the audience in a jukebox type format. This performance will be repeated at Tactile Bosch in a pre-cursor to the long-standing Experimentica season at Chapter Arts Centre. The week ends at the Barbican Theatre Plymouth with the intermit performance Lullaby - a show for an audience of one, repeated many times. The Clarks will also be delving into the world of Fairy Tales with Filmmaker Aly Simpkins and have plans to show Bezerkus in the New Year at the newly revamped Chapter Arts Theatre. August 2009 - Blysh festival was a big success and many thanks to everyone that attended the show. Cardiff needs this type of experimental celebration in it's biggest venue. Shame the bars were not open after however. Onwards now to Penpynfarch where Mr and Mrs Clark are working intensely with a cast and collaborating designer to initially develop the first phase of the musical 'My Prosethetic Soul'. There is a work in progress showing at Chapter Arts Centre on Sunday 2nd August but capacity is limited so book if you are interested in viewing the development. We are delighted to be working with Fern Smith, artistic director of Volcano Theatre Company, the award winning writer Phillip Ralph, and the multi talented Alex Alderton as well as the set designer Igor Vasiljev. The Clarks will be performing a new show at the Weston Studio in The Wales Millennium Centre on 21st July. More details to follow. April 2009 - Website has been launched for Walk The Dead Dog. Click on the link www.unknownpleasures.info. 22nd, 23rd, 24th January - Mr and Mrs Clark are resident at Chapter Arts Centre in the small theatre with the show Cabba Hey which premiered here at Expermentica 2007. The performance is a version of the show that includes special guest appearances from The Fun Girls. Tickets are on sale now and are limited due to refurbishment. Book now to avoid disappointment at www.chapter.org . January 2009 has provided some fine opportunties to meet and work with a talented bunch of people in Swnasea. The result is an installation version of Cabba Hey with a cast of local performers at The Elysium Artspace on Friday 16th from 7.30pm. This will be an unusual and enticing event full of the usual surreal and provocative imagery with a new exciting twist from some of Swansea's finest resident performers. This event is sponsored by the Credit Crunch as is completely FREE. Happy New Year Dec 2008/Jan 2009: Mr and Mrs Clark present "A Christmas Cabba Hey". 4/12/08 Milgi's, City Road Cardiff, 16/01/09 Elysium Art Space, Swansea, 22nd, 23rd & 24th January Chapter Arts Centre, Canton Cardiff. More details and dates to follow. For a glimpse at past experiences click on the link.........HERE A brief review of "Lullaby II" was included on the Expermentica Blog. "The Clarks' performance was, as ever, incendiary. It was a new collaboration with The Fun Girls, exploring Cyndi Lauper and the phenomenon of 'festival-fanny.' I couldn't recommend the Clarks' more, and nothing will be said of my assistant's ungainly fall up the stairs upon our entrance to the space in which they were performing.” Unicorns!Unicorns! 16th November - Mr & Mrs Clark perform "Cabba Hey" at the Barbican, Plymouth, as part of the IN THE FLESH Festival The November performance of Alan Osborne's "This Is The Time" has been postponed until the spring due to unforseen circumstances. November 2008 - Marega (Mrs Clark) will be exhibiting her art work in the bar at Chapter Arts Centre. 19th November 2008 - Mr & Mrs Clark will feature in Alan Osborne's Opera "This Is The Time" at Merthyr College. The performance is an oratario.......erm a read through type affair.....with full orchestra and the Dowlais Male Voice Choir. The Clarks are Seamus and Ruth weird and wild forest folk who are "ancient and modern". 14th October 2008 - Mr & Mrs Clark are back at tactileBOSCH Andrews Road, Llandaf North for a further performance of "Lullaby" with an additional twist........will you be brave enough to come and find them or will you be chosen? 27th September 2008 - Mr & Mrs Clark perform at "Track and Field" at tactileBOSCH Andrews Road, Llandaf North. The installation piece "Lullaby" is a short intiment performance for an audience of one. The piece will run through the evening starting at 7pm-9.30pm. July 2008 - Mrs Clark (Marega Palser) completed her fine art degree and has a selection of her prints for sale on www.newbloodart.com July 2008 - Mr and Mrs Clark have been commisioned to make a theatre piece with students from Swansea Metropolitan University in May 2009 under the Unknown Pleasures banner. The show will premiere at the Taliesin Arts Centre the week commencing 25th May 2009 and a short tour will be announced forthwith. 14th June 2008- Mr & Mrs Clark perform at the Blue Lagoon Festival in St. Davids, Pembrokeshire. Tickets available from mark Chapel.....contact this site if you are interested further. Beautiful location, small fun festival, lots of bands and things. 8th June 2008- The Clarks deliver more musical musings as part of Meltdown at Milgis on City Road Cardiff. Entry is free and the setting is the Yurt behind the joint. Come on down for a sing song. Alex Alderton may well be joining the band for an injection of power and poignance. 7th June 2008- Mrs Clark performs "Feeling Horse Peep Show" as part of her Print Exhibition in Howard Gardens on Saturday June 7th between 2.00 and 3.00pm. The performances are selected by the individual viewer who will also be able to see a selection of the print work Mrs Clark has been developing over the last three years. The whole college is open to all. 25th - 29th March 2008- Mr and Mrs Clark will feature in the Volcano Theatre Company production "What Am I Doing Here?" in Swansea. The show takes place in a secret location, a bus leaves from Taliesin Arts Centre at 7.30pm.You never thought it would come to this. But now you have little choice to leave your homeland. Fortunately, there is a safer country next door, which has everything you need in abundance. All you have to do is get in....The opportunity of a lifetime: a new life in a better place. Will you be allowed in? 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th March. 18th October - A review from the Expermentica performance of Cabba Hey has been posted in the 'REVIEWS' section of the this site. A really enjoyable evening and a great full house certainly enhanced the piece. More Experimentica news from Chapter website. 2nd November - Mr and Mrs Clark present "Cabba Hey" at The Elysium Gallery, Swansea. 20th October - Mr and Mrs Clark guest appearance at Peppermint Patti, Chapter Theatre, Cardiff. 17th October - Mr and Mrs Clark premiere"Cabba Hey" at Expermentica 2007, Chapter Studio, Cardiff. 22nd September - Mr and Mrs Clark "Yeah, Yeah" Installation at tactileBOSCH, Llandaf North, Cardiff. Mr and Mrs Clark will be performing at this years Expermentica season in the Chapter Arts Centre Studio on Wednesday 17th October 2007. The piece is loosely named Cabba Hey and is a culmination of this years research and develpoment project featuring dance, theatre, music and song procurred and produced by the Clarks. In addition to the show Mr and Mrs Clark will make a special guest appearance at the Pepparmint Patti event on Saturday 20th October in the Chapter Arts Centre Theatre. The night consists of local electronica bleep twiddlers Applefish and a big headline act yet to be announced. All very exciting. Pepparmint Patti introduce an outstanding array of new music to Cardiff from all over the world on a consistent basis, so the Clarks are delighted to be involved. September 2007 - Mr and Mrs Clark perform a new installation piece at tactileBOSCH the week commencing 17th September. More details to follow. July 2007 - Completed film project with Christopher Nurse is now available on the link below. "From Shirley Temple and Bill Robinson to Chris Cunningham, and from Gene Nelson, June Haver & Hermes Pan to contemporary Japanese horror; dance and choreographed movement, have always had a distinct marriage with moving image and film." Flicker intends to synthesise the highly visual directorial approach of filmmaker Christopher Nurse with the surreal performance choreography of Mr and Mrs Clark. Click on and let us know what you think. July - The Clarks have started recording new material for the next phase of the development project with the excellent producer, musician, composer extraordiniare Tom Raybould (aka Proober Glombat aka Acoustic Wallpaper). Two brand new tracks recorded with more to come. All very exciting and ready for the Small nations Gigs next weekend. Pray for sunshine. Ongoing News: Mr and Mrs Clark start a development project in June. We are looking for alternative venues and opportunities to perform to new audience. Any thoughts, collaborations or proposals will be welcome. Please use the contact section to get in touch if you wish to recieve regular updates of work or performances. Just email the address and we'll endeavour to keep you informed. 13th/14th July - Mr and Mrs Clark at the Small Nations Festival. Closing the cabaret tent with some surrealism and heart felt joviality The Clarks are researching the place and the space to develop new work to a new audience. More details about the festival can be found at smallnations@cilycwm.com. 26th June - Mr and Mrs Clark perform at Aberystwyth Arts Centre as part of Welsh Independent Dance Performance Platform. A number of great short pieces by esteemed choreographers including the very splendid Tanja Raman. Doors open at 8.00pm...tickets are £5 and £3 payable on the door. 9th June - Mr and Mrs Clark will be performing at the Blue Lagoon Festival near St. Davids. This intimate festival has a camp site very close to the beach and provides a chilled alternative to the weekend. Lots of other live music on the bill. 2nd June 2007 - Mr and Mrs Clark at Powys Dance Centre, Llandrindod Wells. As part of Welsh Independent Dance sponsored Performance Platform. Show starts early at the very civilised time of 5pm and consists of a number of short perfromance pieces from a number of choreographers and dancers. 24th May 2007 – Mr and Mrs Clark perform at Howard Gardens with performance posse White Rope and the absurd but loveable Taffia. All at Tommy’s Bar where the beer is cheap and the company fresh.
29th April 2007 – Another Cabaret performance at Clwb Ifor Bach. This is part of Meltdowns Unsung night that includes the amazing Lily Green, the barmy Cosmo and big Clarks favourites Eirlys Rhiannon and Alison Clash. Could be an amazing night, recorded live and a special bit of a birthday bash for Mrs Clark. Starts at 8pm. Mr and Mrs Clark perform songs from their Loose Head project at about 8.20pm. “Be lovely to see you all there”. xxxxx 20th April 2007 – Mr and Mrs Clark are performing at the Model Inn, Cardiff as part of Fag Club’s Never Grow Up night of events. Definitely a must for all you people that like life a little different. Fag Club always blend a great mix of bands, singers and performers to great effect. Starts at 8pm. February 2007 – Clarks collaborate with Filmmaker Christopher Nurse on a new film entitled Flicker (working title). Filming commencing at the end of the month and short film should be available for general release in the spring. If you want to be in it……let us know! 28th January – Mr & Mrs Clark perform at the Coal Exchange as part of Tantrums Get Well soon night. Cabaret part 3 at Clwb Ifor Bach that same night included a Happy Birthday to Bud Harper and Jo Osborne. There will be more cabaret coming. 12th January 2007 – Clarks cabaret part 2 at Callaghans. Supporting Toy Mic Trevour and Cosmo. Addition to set including some blue abortive moves and The Alabama Song……more fun. 17th/23rd
December – Crazy Cows at Christmas – Winter Wonderland. 12th December 2006 – Fag Club at the Kings Cross, Cardiff. Mr and Mrs Clarks first adventure in to Cabaret – and what great fun. The Clarks performed their version of Wicked Game and demonstrated some baroque moves to a splendidly queer audience. Massive Thanks to all at Fag Club for such great fun…….there will be more in the new year!!!! 9th December 2006 – Adventures in the Sitting Room performed at the Purcell Room, London, with amazing line up of work including pieces from Sean Tuan John, Mark Baldwin, Mark Lorimer, Jo Fong and Pari Naderi. A great night thanks to the super lush Cath James for putting the Bare Wittiness programme together. 13th October 2006 – Mr and Mrs Clark presented Pants Committee in chapter Arts Centre as part of the Experimentica Season. Pictures will be available to view in the Pants Gallery. Can you spot your pants? 6th October 2006 - “Adventures in the Sitting Room” Kultrafabrik, Esch, Luxembourg. Trios CL festival of Dance featuring Gianfranco Celestino, Emre Sevindik, Raphaela Galdi. Gianfranco and Raphaela become the children for this slightly abridged version of the show first shown in Cardiff in July. The KUFA is an amazing place….a very good time was had and the show complete sold out…..Marvellous!!! 20th – 30th August 2006 -Dance Visions Workshop lead by Daniel Belasco Rogers in Berlin. Re-uniting the touring party from earlier in the year and a great opportunity to improvise all over Berlin….to an unsuspecting public. August 2006 - “Cardiff” - Composition of Short Film and Music mapping the City. We visited all our old haunts and walked from North to South just to see what would happen. Mentored by the one and only Mr John Thorne. 22nd July 2006 –“Un-natural Performance” The Proud Gallery, Camden, London. Part of a Tactile Bosch exodus to the big smoke. The Clarks camped in the gallery in the shell of a dome tent and intermittently peered out, played table football and battered each other with daffodils. A beautiful cultural moment topped with a single dot tattoo on each of their hands to seal the surreal bond. 8th July 2006 – “Adventures” Sold Out….Thanks to everyone who came along!!! 6th/7th July 2006 - “Adventures in the Sitting Room” Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Cardiff. New show featuring The Clarks with the sensational Ri Richards, Moira from Satellite City, as Mrs Brasso the neighbour and Belinda Nieve and Michelle Cahill as the Children. May 2006 - “Queer Filmic Moments” Series of short films with Christopher Nurse of Black Engine Films. Look out for clips on this site or request a copy of the DVD featuring 5 short films. April 2006 - Composition of Music for Film Forge Project 12 animated films. Clarks first film composition work for the Film Forge Project. Series of great short films made by school children in the Blaenavon area. The filn also featured a film of old photo’s with commentary by the older community. Brilliant project, fabulous people and inspirational film work. Check out….. January/February 2006 – Mr and Mrs Clark tour “The Agony and The Tragedy of Enjoying Life and Having Fun Show” as part of the International Dance Roads Tour. Started in Montreal, Berlin, Ljubjana, Luxembourg and Cardiff. Canada was –18 degrees and Berlin was not much warmer but what a great experience. Also on the programme were Susanna Hood, Nilan Perrera, Friederike Plafki, Dusan Teropsic, Emre Sevindik, Gianfranco Celestino and John Collinswood. Friends for life……Rike and Dusan were nearly in a Clarks show but they missed the cue through no fault of their own….such a shame. Hopefully there will be more opportunity for collaboration. |