Hull Takeover: Previews
This summer, Hull headed back to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as Absolutely Cultured’s Hull Independent Producer Initiative, in partnership with Middle Child, supported by Hull Truck Theatre and Back to Ours, supported shows by five, highly acclaimed and exciting theatre companies from Hull.
The festival once again saw a “Hull Takeover”, as Hull-based theatre companies The Herd, Middle Child, Roaring Girls, Just Club and Back To Ours commission, Casus Circus – a troupe of international acrobats – took to the stage to show the world what Hull is made of.
Ahead of the festival (2-26 August 2019), three of these companies performed previews at Hull Truck Theatre on 13 July.
The Herd – Slime
12:45
Perfectly pitched to engage the youngest of audiences, The Herd performed Slime, the story of a slug, a caterpillar and the quest for a leaf. This squishy, squelchy, hilarious play for two to five-year-olds is a unique, accessible theatrical experience with immersive and colourful play for the very young.
The Roaring Girls – Beach Body Ready
19:00
The Roaring Girls create work that is fierce, feminist and fun. The company was founded in 2014, when Rachael Abbey and Lizi Perry created Skirts, Shirts, and Vintage Dresses for Assemble Fest. Since then, they have been a New Diorama Graduate Emerging Company, performed at BeSTival in Switzerland, collaborated with the University of Hull and grown the company to a core team of five. They took their radically and riotously joyful new show Beach Body Ready, to this year’s Fringe, defiantly championing body positivity and sticking two fingers up at how the media says you should look.
The Herd and The Roaring Girls were Supported Companies at Hull Truck Theatre and The Herd was a Hull Libraries’ Associate Theatre Company.
Just Club – Standing Too Close on Our Own in the Dark
20:30
Formed by University of Hull graduates, founding members and best mates, Jamie Nowell, Matthew Collins and Jake Marsden, Just Club is a new theatre company established in Hull in 2018. Standing Too Close on Our Own in the Dark is the company’s first ever show.
A gig-theatre event as vibrant and hopeful as it is melancholic, is part stand-up, part gig and part spoken word ramble, which sees its performer pour over a journal of original poetry and comedic monologue, with encouragement from a live band.
Standing Too Close on Our Own in the Dark was supported by Middle Child’s First Show Fund.
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Installation view, 2020. Lucy Clout, ZZZ. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artist, 2020. © Jules Lister
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Lucy, 2019. Aniara Omann, Equanipolis. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artist, 2019. © Jules Lister
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Installation View. Mike S Redmond and Faye Coral Jones (MSR FCJ), Ecstatic Rituals.Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artist, 2019. © Jules Lister
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IETM Hull © Tom Arran
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PRS Foundation's New Music Biennial 2019, Absolutely Cultured © Tom Arran
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Candoco Dance Company © Hugo Glendinning
IETM Hull 2019 Plenary Meeting

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Installation View. Practice in Place. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artists, 2020. © Jules Lister
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50 Queers for 50 Years Workshop © Chris Pepper
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Nnena Kalu, Wrapping. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artist, 2019. © Jules Lister
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Frances Disley, The Cucumber Fell in the Sand. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artist, 2019. © Jules Lister
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Installation View. Jade Montserrat, Instituting Care. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artist, 2019. © Jules Lister
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Ella Dorton, Journey to the Centre of the Couch (Couches & Other Good Ideas). Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artist, 2019. © Jules Lister
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Installation view. Measures of Life, The Lumen Prize for Digital Art. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artists 2018. © Tom Arran
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Installation view, 2020. Jamie Crewe, Solidarity & Love. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artist. © Jules Lister.
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HIPI Hang Out Forum, Absolutely Cultured © Absolutely Cultured
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Installation view, 2019. Ollie Dook, Proboscidea Rappings. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artist, 2019. © Jules Lister
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Dance Exchange Programme, Absolutely Cultured © Absolutely Cultured
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Hull Takeover: Previews © The Herd/The Roaring Girls/Just Club
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Athena Papadopoulos, A Tittle-Tattle Tell-a-Tale-Heart, courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artist 2019. © James Mulkeen
A Tittle-Tattle Tell-a-Tale Heart, Athena Papadopoulos

Installation view. Place To Place: Liverpool Biennial Touring Programme. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artists 2019. © Tom Arran
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Jamie Reid XXXXX: Fifty Years of Subversion and The Spirit © Jamie Reid
Jamie Reid XXXXX: Fifty Years of Subversion and The Spirit

John Grant's North Atlantic Flux: Sounds from Smoky Bay © Chris Pepper
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The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca © Hull Truck Theatre
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A Duckie Summer Tea Party/LGBT50 © Tom Arran