Ponyboy Curtis Launch Project

London, GB

Ponyboy Curtis is a brand new permanent ensemble focused on formally experimental performance. The project will draw together a group of young / emergent actors and makers, shaped by the artistic vision of acclaimed director Chris Goode, described by The Guardian as “one of the geniuses of British theatre”. Ponyboy’s work will be bold and challenging but also accessible and appealing, rigorous yet romantic.

The artistic benefits of maintaining a permanent ensemble, especially when working with exploratory formats, are obvious: the building and exploring of sustained relationships between collaborators allows for richer, more layered, and ultimately more sophisticated work – and this is particularly true in respect of a company like Ponyboy Curtis with an interest in highly intimate and risk-taking performance, where the relationships between performers are really critical.

But longterm ensemble activity is hard to support and resource, especially in its early days, when the company is developing its shared language and before audiences and critics have been exposed to the work. That’s why we’re crowdfunding this launch project through Sponsume.

This first project will provide for a week’s workshop in London in December 2014, allowing the initial company members to start working together behind closed doors to explore their first impulses and start to create a shared aesthetic. There will be no sharing of work yet, but it’ll all feed into an ongoing process that will eventually inform our first audience-facing performances next spring.

This is a crucial stage for Ponyboy Curtis. We hope you'll accept our invitation to become part of our journey from the very start.

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Lots of love from Ponyboy

£5.00 or more : Help us out a wee bit and we'll send you a happy email bursting with thanks and love.

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Become Ponyboy's friend

£10.00 or more : We'll add you to our mailing list so you can keep in touch with how we're doing. You won't receive a deluge of emails - just enough to stay close and to allow us to offer you early booking, special offers and other fun Ponyboy stuff.

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For your eyes only

£15.00 or more : As well as adding you to our Friends (see above), we'll send you an exclusive pdf documenting our first research week together, including specially written essays by director Chris Goode and critic Maddy Costa, as well as a revealing photographic record from inside the rehearsal room.

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For your ears as well

£20.00 or more : In addition to sending you documentation of our first workshop week (see above), we'll also link you to an exclusive one-off Ponycast, an hour-long audio document of the first workshop project, featuring interviews with the participants, sound materials from the rehearsal room, and other conversations from the time we spend together.

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Even more for your ears!

£25.00 or more : In addition to all of the above, you'll receive a link to a specially constructed, downloadable online mixtape, providing a very special invitation into the strange and wonderful world of Ponyboy Curtis's record collection...

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Become Ponyboy's Special Friend

£30.00 or more : In addition to everything above, we'll send you an invitation to attend as our special guest every Ponyboy Curtis performance in 2015 - including R&D sharings that aren't otherwise open to public audiences. Come as often or as little as you want -- but you're always welcome.

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All this plus something to read...

£50.00 or more : In addition to becoming one of Ponyboy's Special Friends and receiving all of the rewards above, we'll send you a signed copy of any book of your choice by Chris Goode, the director of Ponyboy Curtis.

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As good as it gets

£100.00 or more : In addition to all of the above, we'd like to offer you a half-day's bespoked creative consultancy or workshop with director Chris Goode or with your favourite Ponyboy. (Exact content, details and terms to be arranged.)

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