Category Archives: Theatre

Practice -Sat 26 Nov 2011


Practice is a platform giving artists and audiences the opportunity to test and see new and innovative contemporary performance and dance in development. more…

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Bryony Kimmings – 7 Day Drunk


From Jackson Pollock to Keith Richards; Oscar Wilde to Charlie Sheen, everyone’s on something, but why? From the Total Theatre Award winning creator of Sex Idiot (seen at ICIA earlier in 2012), came a hilarious and moving one-woman show investigating the historical links between artists and mind-enhancing drugs.
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Bobby Baker – Mad Gyms & Kitchens


Bobby Premiered Mad Gyms & Kitchens at ICIA. She developed this show out of her own experiences of illness and hard-won recovery. Designed in collaboration with sculptor Charlie Whittuck, an extraordinary set of fantastical ‘recovery’ apparatus delivered surprises galore as well as state-of-the-art technical equipment, all developed with wellbeing in mind. more…

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National Theatre Connections: Those Legs

ICIA took part in the National Theatre’s Connections project in Spring 2011. A brand new play by BAFTA-winner Noel Clarke was presented at the University’s Arts Theatre and later at a regional ‘Connections Festival’ in Bristol. Connections is an annual, … more…

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Victoria Melody – Northern Soul

An observers guide to unobserved Britain Sat 21 May – ICIA Arts Theatre Victoria Melody is a performer and filmmaker with a curiosity for other people’s passions. Part artist, part ethnographer she gives audiences brief glimpses into the worlds of … more…

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Quarantine – Entitled

21 May 2011 Questioning accepted conventions of theatre, Entitled is about hope, privilege and disappointment – and the things we do to try to make our life complete. It’s about sometimes being centre stage and sometimes waiting in the wings. Devised with three technicians, three dancers and a writer, … more…

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Tom Marshman – Artist-in-Residence


Tom Marshman was artist-in-residence at ICIA during the 2010-11 academic year. His playful interventions raised smiles, eyebrows and interesting questions amongst students, staff and visitors on campus. more…

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Me & The Machine – When we meet again

Wed 6 & Thurs 7 Apr – University campus “The first time we met, you could see me but I couldn’t see you” the invisible woman recounts. When We Meet Again is a wearable film and one-to-one performance, a bizarre sensuous experience featuring you, your invisible friend, a 3D soundtrack, … more…

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Bryony Kimmings – Sex Idiot

Sat 12 Mar – ICIA Arts Theatre Following her very first STI test, 29 year-old Bryony discovered she had a common sexual disease. Not one for looking back, she was faced with the arduous task of retracing her sexual footsteps. … more…

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Practice

Sat 26 Feb – ICIA Arts Theatre & Arts Barn Practice is a unique opportunity to see new professional theatre, live art and dance, then to help shape ideas by having a dialogue with the artists and performers. Practice consists … more…

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