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Seductive Alchemy 09 - Happy Noir Eve
December 31st, 2009
Once again, we're joining forces with Seductive Alchemy, to bring you a New Year's Eve party to remember.
This year, on 31 / 12 / 2009 from 10pm - 6am, we'll be providing performers for Happy Noir Eve - a night of dancing, play, performance and costume set in a dark Victorian apocalyptic universe.
Masked revellers, fire, DJs, puppets, fortunetellers, soothsayers, human lab rats, Victorian servants and strange contraptions on a night of Steampunk, hedonism and live interactive performance.
Winter in the Willows
19th to 21st March, 2010.
Firecat Masquerade are currently looking forward to March 2010, when we'll be running the first event of "Winter in the Willows : The Knifewinter" - a new Live Action Roleplay system set in a twisted alternate version of the classic story "The Wind In The Willows."
Click Here for more details of the game, including rules, setting and how to book for the weekend-long event...
... or Click Here to see some various masks for the game that other people have been producing.
It's All In The Delivery
Friday 20th February, 2009. 11pm-3am
The Loft, 10 Ship Street, Brighton, BN1 1AD
A Fundraising Event for Maternity Worldwide.
Pregnancy and childbirth is one of the leading causes of death in women of reproductive age in Africa. In some countries, the lifetime risk of pregnancy-related deaths is as high as 1 in 7.
Maternity Worldwide is saving lives in childbirth by helping those women who most need access to professional care. With the help of donors, they are achieving this through the employment and training of medical and midwifery staff, setting up women's community education and empowerment groups and providing a Safe Birth Fund for those unable to pay for care.
On Friday 20th February, in association with Maternity Worldwide, the Firecat crew are running a fundraising night at The Loft in Ship Street, Brighton.
Stiltwalkers, Pop Banjo duo The Disappointments , Drag from Jenny Taylor and visitors from the Sussex Magic Circle will be coming together to provide a night of fun and fundraising, set to a soundtrack of top Indie tunes from Brighton Dj's Muffy and WISIWIG.
Tickets will be availiable on the door and are £6, or £4.50 conc. Guests must be over 18.
All profits raised at this event will go to Maternity Worldwide.
November 2008. Pitchy Breath - 'Shorts II'
Following the success of 'Shorts' in 2006 - Pitchy Breath's next production is 'Shorts II'.
Firecat performer Arwen Matthews has been working with Pitchy Breath on a variety of previous projects.
Shorts II is the latest of these.
Local writers submitted scripts and four were chosen to producehe - they are outlined below. They will also be showing four very short devised pieces that Pitchy Breath performed in June at the Capitol Theatre in Horsham for 'Scene It'. This promises to be a compelling and contrasting evening of new drama.
Thursday 6 - Saturday 8 November at 7.30pm in the Hawth Studio.
Tickets: £6.50 (£5.50). Box Office: 01293 553636
The Angel on the Ceiling by Louise Hume
Lisa, a tour guide at the Brighton Royal Pavilion comes in after hours to investigate ghostly activity. She is accompanied by Rich the new security guard - but who exactly is he and will they discover anything at all supernatural?
Dreamcatcher by Paul Norman
Stella, recently divorced, has arranged to meet a man she has met on the internet in the foyer of the Regis Hotel and has dressed to kill! Her blind date is typically late, leaving her vulnerable and slightly embarrassed in front of the seemingly judgemental hotel staff.
The Flat Next Door by Gareth Brownbill
Jane has just moved into a new flat to try and sort her life out. She hears strange noises coming from next door flat so goes round to investigate with surprising consequences.
The Last Quest by Andrew Lane.
One Monk. One Knight. One Dragon. One Quest.
Plus 'Strangers on a Train', 'Waterloo Sunset', Who's the Daddy?' and 'A Momentary Lapse'
October 2008 - Yours Abundantly, From Zimbabwe
Firecat Masquerade's premier logistician and Cat-Wrangler,
Sarah Johnson is currently a Producer for a new Gillian Plowman play.
Yours Abundantly, From Zimbabwe
Directed by Annie Castledine and Ben Evans.
Production Design: Iona McLeish. Lighting Design: Ben Payne
A new play by Gillian Plowman
For the last eight years, foreign journalists have been banned from Zimbabwe. For the last eight years, orphaned Zimbabwean children have written to the playwright Gillian Plowman.
Inspired by these funny, quirky, joyful, sad and often poetic letters, Yours Abundantly, from Zimbabwe tells the story of Nell, a white British woman who travels to Zimbabwe on holiday and meets a young orphan boy named Enock. The subsequent correspondence between the two of them forms the basis of this poignant and heartbreaking tale, and offers a powerful glimpse into the lives of those living in the shadow of Mugabe.
Cast includes Gillian Wright, Aïcha Kossoko and Nicholas Beveney,
and Zimbabwean actors Denton Chikura and Tonderai Munyevu.
30 September - 18 October
Tues-Sat 7.45pm
Matinee Sat 18 Oct 3pm
Post-show discussions
(these events are included in ticket price)
Friday 3 October
Audience question and answer session with the director Annie Castledine
Tuesday 7 October
Britain and Zimbabwe: global responsibility or neo-colonialism?
The Irrepressible Mr. Flay - Shot in Face by Tracey Emin
June 2008
Stephen Webster Jewellery Launch - "London Calling"
This June, jewellery designer Stephen Webster released his new "London Calling" range of men's silver. The event played host to Firecat performers Doctor Gore, The Irrepressible Mr. Flay and Ed Wills, playing Vaudeville acts, including Mr. Flay's famous Bullet Catch routine, with artist Tracey Emin chosen from the audience. Shenanigans ensued.
The Event was hosted at Wilton Hall, London's oldest music hall, as part of London Jewellery Week.
Lysistrata
3rd April 2008 to 5th April 2008 - 19:30
Play: Love, war and women's lib.
The women of Greece are tired of wars which remove their men from their lives and their roles as husbands and fathers. Led by Lysistrata the women resolve to withhold sex from their men until they agree to peace…
Arwen Matthews and Pitchy Breath again bring their own innovative style to classical theatre with this anti-war Greek comedy. Arwen can also be seen on much of this site, modelling Firecat's masks.
Playing at The Hawth, Hawth Avenue, Crawley, West Sussex, England
Box Office: 01293 553636
Midsummer's Night Ball, 2008!
Your hosts, Oberon and Titania, cordially invite you to enter their magic hall with your best finery and indulge in mischief, glamour, and magic in historic Salisbury, a few miles from sacred Stonehenge.
The ball is taking place on 20 June, 2008, Midsummer's eve, from 7:00pm till 1am. Be whisked away by a horse and carriage to the marble steps of the Salisbury guildhall, where the Oreo String Quartet will be playing music for the season in the Foyer. Fine wines and casked ales are being provided by Shipseys for your enjoyment while DJs Sexbat and Ravensable keep the music going until the early hours.
Seductive Alchemy
1st December 2008
A very Happy New Year, from Firecat Masquerade. By way of a New Year's present, have some photos:
Steampunch
28th November 2007
We're currently working hard towards producing acts for Seductive Alchemy, where Firecat Masquerade will be brining stilt-walkers, indoor hot-air baloons, zeppelins, belly dancing, sword dancing and fireplay. We were also very happy to be working with SteamPunch - a work of dark puppetry from The Professor.
Seductive Alchemy
November 2007
We have teamed up with the House of Wheat, ARTHOUSEPARTY, Zombies Ate My Brain and Unit 7 to bring you SEDUCTIVE ALCHEMY, a masked steampunk New Year’s Eve of costumes, interactive theatre, mischief, fire, absinthe and mayhem.
Expect helium pornaoke, interactive theatre, clowns on stilts, pedal-powered cinema, mad scientists and human lab rats. Dress in frock coats, stovepipe hats, goggles, bustles, rubber gloves, lab coats, gas masks, parasols and bonnets. Bring your own experiments. NO COSTUME, NO MASK, NO ENTRY.
Tickets:Click Here
£15 early bird - Get them while you can!
£20 normal
£25 at the door
Date: December 31
Time:10pm-10am
Location: Cable St Studios, 566 Cable Street, Limehouse, London.
Map:Click here
DJ’s:
The Bee
Cristiano Pixeldot
Shane Watcha
Glade Festival
July 20th-22nd
Stiltwalking, walkabout & character comedy at the 2007 Glade Festival
"The Glade Festival, now in it's 4th year, is on the weekend of the 20th-22nd July. Having been the renegade dance stage at Glastonbury, it exploded out into its own multi-genre music festival and has steadily grown to be the premier cutting edge electronic music event in the UK. With a strong aversion to all things corporate and mainstream and with a great love of all things alternative, underground and interesting, the Glade this year will have a mind boggling array of artistic ideas; musically, sonically, visually and extra sensorily, from all over the world.."
More information can be found on the Glade Website
Burning Love Masked Ball
May 5th - The House of Wheat
Cable Street Galleries in Limehouse was transformed for The Burning Love Masked Ball - 12 hours of club tunes, DJs, extravagant cabaret performance and beautiful costumes. The review of the event can be found here.
Staffordshire University Summer Ball
May 19th 2007
A fantastic night was had by all at Staffordshire University’s 2007 Summer Ball.
This year had a circus theme – Dominic was happy to provide stilt walking and poi-twirling, working with a number of other Dark Arts performers... stage acts from David Straightjacket and Dr Gore, burlesque strip tease from The Circus of Satan, the witty compere skills of Mr Flay as well as angle grinding and stilt walking from Asha!
(Copy shamelessly stolen from www.darkarts.org.uk – thanks Asha!)
The Oxford Dark Masquerade
January 27th 2007
In January 2007, The Oxford Masquerade filled the ballroom of Oxford's prestigious Randolph Hotel with a sumptuous masquerade ball laid on in the theme of "A Dance With the Damned". Firecat Masquerade was involved from the early stages back in October 2006. We provided decoration, spectacle and performers for the evening who played everything from entertainers as the guests arrived, to guards at the door of the ballroom, to the set-piece entertainments throughout the evening. The night culminated in the arrival of trio of stilt-walking angels, stalking in to the delight of the guests.
