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Rêve d’Herbert

Compagnie des Quidams

This spectacular outdoor celebration of the senses transformed Cathedral Close into a luminous dreamscape where performers became giant lanterns.

 

Photo from NNF13 show Reve dHerbert. It is night time. In the background there is Norwich Cathedral, which is illuminated in a purple/blue light. In the foreground there are hundreds of people, all gazing at eight large, white, glowing, inflatable figures.
Photo from NNF13 show The Kindness of Strangers, two huge white, inflatable figures stand facing each other, surrounded by a big crowd.
Photo from NNF13 show Reve dHerbert, a crowd of people watch something out of shot.
Photo from NNF13 show Reve dHerbert, four men standing on tall stilts dressed all in white, hold onto an old style street lamp. They are surrounded by a large crowd.
Photo from NNF13 show Reve dHerbert, a man dressed all in white, standing within a huge white glowing suit.
Photo from NNF13 show Reve dHerbert, two women smile up at a large glowing white figure.
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The Kindness of Strangers

curious directive

World Premiere

The Kindness of Strangers, a once in a lifetime theatre experience for the adventurous, set in the back of an ambulance.

★★★★ ‘Superb…a show with brains and a heart.’ The Guardian

★★★★ ‘I watched a real ambulance on call with renewed admiration’ Financial Times

A curious directive and Norfolk and Norwich Festival co-production.

Photo from NNF13 show The Kindness of Strangers, two ambulances parked outside Norwich Playhouse.
Photo from NNF13 show The Kindness of Strangers, a man wearing headphones sitting in the back of an ambulance. A paramedic stands with her back to the doors of the ambulance, an image of a street is projected over her.
Photo from NNF13 show The Kindness of Strangers, people performing surgery.
Photo from NNF13 show The Kindness of Strangers, a paramedic looks through a window. Inside the building there are four people performing surgery.
Photo from NNF13 show The Kindness of Strangers, taken from inside an ambulance with the back doors open, a paramedic steps out of the ambulance. There is a woman sitting on a chair on the pavement outside.
Photo from NNF13 show The Kindness of Strangers, a woman wearing a pair of headphones sitting in the back of an ambuland & gazing out of the window.
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Ideas of Flight

The Voice Project

Ideas of Flight

World Premiere

The hundred-strong Voice Project were joined by Andy Sheppard and Trio Zéphyr for a choral song-cycle inspired by bird in flight in Norwich Cathedral and at St Benet’s Abbey.

‘This 100-voice choir are amazing, creating such soaring harmonies, so many variations of the most versatile instrument of all, the voice.’ Eastern Daily Press

Commissioned by The Voice Project and Norfolk & Norwich Festival.

Photo from NNF13 show Ideas of Flight, a large broads boat, with fairy lights on the roof floats in the water, surrounded by reeds.
Photo from NNF13 show Ideas of Flight, a large audience watch a man who is standing in front of a huge wooden crucifix.
Photo from NNF13 show Ideas of Flight, a choir of approx. 20 members, all dressed in black, stand in the middle of a derelict building.
Photo from NNF13 show Ideas of Flight, a choir of approx. 20 members, all dressed in black, stand in the middle of a derelict building.
Photo from NNF13 show Ideas of Flight, a line of people walk in pairs, the sun is setting behind them.
Photo from NNF13 show Ideas of Flight, St Benets Abbey in Norfolk, a field of golden reeds surround the abbey. The sky is blue, with some clouds, the sun is setting.
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Les Enfants Perdus

World Premiere

A fusion of the rib-tickling, the awe-inspiring, the sensational and the downright surreal, Les Enfants Perdus was a modern day variety show featuring contortionism, acrobatics, comedy and burlesque.

A Norfolk & Norwich Festival Production.

Photo from NNF13 show Les Enfants Perdus, a group of performers stand on a circular stage in the spiegeltent, a busy crowd surrounds them, clapping.
Photo from NNF13 show Les Enfants Perdus, a man is creating a large painting on stage, a busy crowd watches him, clapping.
Photo from NNF13 show Les Enfant Perdus, a woman on stage, swallowing a sword.
Photo from NNF13 show Les Enfants Perdus, two circus performers dressed in white, perform a body contortion piece.
Photo from NNF13 show Les Enfants Perdus, two circus performers dressed in white, one performing the splits in the air, while the other bends over backwards.
Photo from NNF13 show Les Enfants Perdus, a woman wearing a big blonde wig and a tiny black beret holds a microphone to her mouth.
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All 2013 companies & artists

Family

  • Aurora Orchestra & Little Angel Theatre
  • Commotion Dance
  • Fevered Sleep
  • Monski Mouse
  • Travelling Lights

Literature

Presented in association with Writers’ Centre Norwich

  • Ali Smith
  • Amit Chaudhuri
  • Chris Thorpe
  • Don Paterson
  • Eduardo Halfon
  • Eletronic Voice Phenomena
  • Hannah Lowe
  • Hannah Walker
  • Luke Wright
  • Nathan Penlington
  • Sophie Hannah
  • Will Self

Performance

  • Bluemouth inc.
  • Circa/I Fagiolini
  • Compagnie Galapiat
  • Curious directive
  • Franko B
  • Les 7 doigts de la main
  • National Theatre of Scotland
  • Nature Theatre of Oklahoma
  • Still House

Visual Arts

  • Brian Griffiths
  • Caroline McCarthy
  • Funki Porcini
  • Houghton Revisited
  • Lynda Morris
  • Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
  • Rhona Byrne
  • Sven Werner

Free Outdoor

  • Bad Taste Company
  • Compagnie des Quidams
  • Inspector Sands
  • Ljud Group
  • OCM
  • Rag and Bone
  • Superhallo
  • Tilted Productions

Music

  • Alasdair Roberts
  • Aurora Orchestra
  • Bang On A Can All-Stars
  • Britten Sinfonia
  • Clarinet Trio
  • Emily Portman
  • Festival Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • James Boyd
  • John Grant
  • Kayhan Kalhor
  • Khyam Allami & Vasilis Sarikis
  • Kristine Balanas & Reinis Zarins
  • Leporello Quartet
  • London Sinfonietta
  • Mariza
  • Oliver Coates
  • Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Rokia Traoré
  • Sam Furness & Matthew Fletcher
  • Sam Lee & Friends
  • Steven Osbourne
  • The Bad Plus
  • The Bartholdy Quartet & Kei Takumi
  • The Soul Rebels
  • The Voice Project Quintet & Trio Zéphyr
  • Woodkid

The Adnams Spiegeltent

  • Arthur Jeffes
  • Circa
  • Les Enfants Perdus
  • Meow Meow
  • Mikelangelo and The Black Sea Gentlemen
  • Ragroof Theatre
  • The Bo Nanafana Social Club
  • The Tiger Lillies

Arts make life better

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This year we begin an exciting new initiative, Festival Connect & Create that will bring creative opportunities to those schools and communities with least provision. Creativity transforms people’s lives. It builds cohesive communities, develops vital skills and supports health and wellbeing. We want more people to have access to creative opportunities.

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