LEARNING PIECE
by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Premiered at The Place, January 2020
Made with students from Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance
Directed by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Performed by Tilly Woodward, Holly Smith, Sapphire Sumpter, Joshua Freeman, Matt Brion, Ludmilla Gilles, Hannah Lucas, Harry Foster
Photos Alex Brenner
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Jaz Woodcock-Stewart's Learning Piece
made me think far more than I expected.
Fascinating .
Bruce Marriott, Dance Tabs
A complete one-off experimental event
Megan Edwards, Dance Tabs
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CIVILISATION
Complex, raw and insensibly smart...I could watch it forever. Under Jaz Woodcock-Stewart’s astute direction, nothing is of note and everything is noticed.
★★★★ THE GUARDIAN
A profound piece of visual poetry...Civilisation is many things at once: theatre, dance, performance art, illuminating and baffling, hilarious and heart-breaking.
★★★★ THE LIST
With poise and precision, Civilisation conjures a dreadful kind of beauty
BEN KULCHIVIT, EXEUNT
Civilisation has immense confidence and wears its broken heart with a dignified sorrow. This is a show about loss and grief which begins by appearing to be about a single woman’s grief in the wake of a death but becomes about collective loss, the need to move beyond grief for what we have built and for what has been destroyed to create a new world...
Jaz Woodcock-Stewart has always had a consistent willingness to push at the boundaries and play with form. That's something that is all too rare with UK companies, and Antler's Civilsation is no different as it shifts from one form into another as it dances its way across the stage with under-stated authority. It is like quietly watching a bruise spread.
LYN GARDNER, STAGE DOOR
Wonderfully understated, this snapshot of civilisation is fascinating in its mundanity
★★★★ REVIEWS HUB
CIVILISATION
by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart with Morgann Runacre-Temple
A day in the life of a woman following a tragic event.
An experiment in theatrical realism and contemporary dance.
Jaz Woodcock-Stewart from award-winning company Antler collaborates with choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple. From the creator behind critically acclaimed Lands, Civilisation is a sideways look at the untheatrical reality of loss. Music by ABBA and Bach.
Directed by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Choreography by Morgann Runacre-Temple and the company
Performed by Alethia Antonia, James Olivo, Sophie Steer, Emily Thompson-Smith, Seda Yildiz
Designed by Charlotte Espiner
Lighting Designer Alex Fernandes
Assistant Producer Eve Allin
Videography Richard Perryman
Production photos Alex Brenner
Developed with Lise Smith, Claire Gaydon, Laura Lorenzi, Fern Grimbley, Jack Anderson, Chihiro Kawasaki, Gabriella Schmidt, Amy Drew and Riley Wolf
Supported by New Diorama Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, HOME Manchester, Arts Council England
Originally developed for First Drafts at the Yard Theatre
Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe, 2019
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SOMETHING NEW
SOMETHING NEW
A piece by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Performance Laboratory Salzburg
Nominated by National Theatre for Mitos21
Mitos21 is a theatre network in which several of Europe's most influential producing theatres have joined together to promote exchange between European theatremakers across political and linguistic borders
Direction Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Performers Alaa Dyab, Giuilia di Stefano, Jonathan Stolze
Photographs Jannik Goerger
Theater im KunstQuartier, Salzburg
Thomas Bernhard Institut
PERFORMANCE LABORATORY SALZBURG: The Provincialisation of Europe
Concept | Concept: Christoph Lepschy, Amélie Niermeyer
Project Management / Dramaturgy | Project Leaders / Dramaturgs: Christoph Lepschy, Frank Max Mueller, David Tushingham
Organization | Organization Mitos21: Iphigenia Taxopoulou
Production Assistance | Production Assistant: Verena Holztrattner
Productions by | Productions directed by:
Anna Balslev (Østerbro Theater, Copenhagen)
Branko Janack (German Theater, Berlin)
Egor Matveev (Theater of Nations, Moscow)
Tom Müller (Thomas Bernhard Institute - University Mozarteum, Salzburg)
Márk Tárnoki (Katona József Theater, Budapest)
Jaz Woodcock-Stewart (National Theatre, London)
With | With: Raban Bieling ,Anna Lena Bucher , Nikita Buldyrski , India de Vere, Giulia di Stefano, Alaaeldin Dyab, Augustin Groz , Eli Hooker, Mariann Yar (guest | guest) Tereza Krejcova, Dylan Labiod, Nicola Manzoni, Elliot Norell, Ella Pelloquin, Edith Saldanha, Anna Seeberger , Anna Stein , Jonathan Stolze
The event will be in German and English.
Premiere 1st March 2019
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LANDS
★★★★ Mightily moving TIME OUT
★★★★★ Lands is a proper theatrical rollercoaster, journeying into the emotional worlds of cruelty, despair, anger, injustice, deep sorrow and plenty more GREATER MANCHESTER REVIEWER
★★★★ About everything and anything from intoxication, loneliness, despondency, desensitisation...it starts to feel like a ticking time bomb, as we wait for horrifying results WHATSONSTAGE
LANDS
An Antler and Bush Theatre Co-production
Created by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart in collaboration with Leah Brotherhead and Sophie Steer
Directed by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Performed by Leah Brotherhead and Sophie Steer
Initial Development with Richard Perryman and Nasi Voutsas
Producer Claire Gaydon
Design Charlotte Espiner
Lighting Design Rajiv Pattani
Stage Manager Rachel Darwood
Production Photographs Helen Murray
Rehearsal Photographs Alex Brenner
Developed at Battersea Arts Centre
Kindly Supported by New Diorama Theatre and Arts Council England
WIFMON
By Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
A new play
In development
Photo from workshop at National Theatre Studio with Antonia Kinlay, Caoiflhionn Dunne and Leo Bill
March 2018
THE BACCHAE
THE BACCHAE
By Euripides
In a Version by David Greig
From a Literal Translation by Ian Ruffell
Direction Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Set Design Susannah Henry
Costume Design Jiyoon Jung
Photography Andrew H Williams
Corbett Theatre, East 15 Acting School
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ANNA
ANNA
East 15 Acting School
Direction Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Design Zoe Brennan
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LANDS
By Antler
Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe, 2017
Created by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart in collaboration with Leah Brotherhead and Sophie Steer
Directed by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Performed by Leah Brotherhead and Sophie Steer
Initial Development by Richard Perryman and Nasi Voutsas
Produced by Claire Gaydon with support from Hannah Smith
Photographs by Meurig Marshall
Developed at Battersea Arts Centre
Kindly Supported by The Bush Theatre and New Diorama Theatre
Antler’s two-hander is a clever piece of contemporary theatre…Lands asks whether we can ever really understand each other or relate to other people’s tragedies. Smart stuff.
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian Recommended Shows 2017
A late and very welcome addition to the programme is LANDS by Antler Theatre, a sparse, desolate evocation of loneliness.
Exeunt recommended shows 2017, The Word of Mouth Favourites
Incisive, tender, tough and heartbreaking.
Definitely enormously recommended.
Andrew Haydon, Postcards from the Gods
Unlike anything I’ve seen at the fringe before.
Hannah Greenstreet, Exeunt
Lands is an instantly engrossing exploration of obsession, of relationships and communication, of drive and determination, and fear of failure.
Expect to be taken on a surprising rollercoaster of emotions, from belly-laughs to anguish.
**** To Do List London
Very affective and eloquent about the harm we sometimes do to ourselves and the people who care about us.
*** Natasha Tripney, The Stage
The simplicity is genius
Sheer brilliance of the writing, directing and acting
**** Broadway Baby
Difficult to tie it up in a neat conclusion.
Theatre Bubble
Lands is a fantastic, quietly intelligent allegory
****Arthur’s Seat
For many years Antler have been one of the most interesting companies producing work at the Edinburgh Fringe. Their unique style has won them critical praise and is wonderfully exemplified in Lands, which may just be their most engaging work to date.
strikingly ambitious
**** Reviews Hub
DAYS LIKE THIS
By Richard Perryman and Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Produced by Antler
A man and a chair. A show about failing.
Battersea Arts Centre
BEFestival (Birmingham European Festival)
2016
Performed and Devised by Richard Perryman
Directed and Devised by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Photographs (Top, middle right, bottom left) by Paul Samuel White
Photographs (Middle left, bottom right) by Alex Brenner
WOYZECK
by George Buchner
JMK Award Finalist production 2016
In collaboration with designer Alex Lowde and producer Ania Obolewicz
In Development
YOU'RE SO RELEVANT
By Joel Horwood
As mouthpieces for cliches, compliments, feminist and anti-feminist rhetoric, two women attempt to reconcile themselves over a cup of tea.
A show about the war on women and the wars women wage on themselves.
Young Vic
Five Plays Project as part of the Jerwood Assistant Director Programme, supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation
Performed by Nadia Albina and Joan Iyiola
Directed by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Designed by Frankie Bradshaw
Photographs by Slav Kirichok
IF I WERE ME
By Antler
It’s spring. The world is in bloom. Phillip tends to his dying potted daffodil.
A copywriter at an advertising agency, fading into the background of a pale office wall, he rearranges words until they work. But life isn’t so easily edited.
Phillip doesn’t want to be Phillip. But what if he never really has been? What if Phillip is yet to become Phillip?
And then there’s Person, who isn’t anybody…yet
Previous IdeasTap Underbelly Award winners Antler present If I Were Me, a playfully surreal portrayal of the performance of identity.
Winner of the Pulse Suitcase Prize 2014
Pulse Festival, New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, 2015
Camden People’s Theatre, 2015
Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe, 2015
The Bush Theatre, RADAR Festival, 2015
Soho Theatre, 2016
Performed and Devised by Daniela Pasquini, Nasi Voutsas, Daniel Foxsmith and Merce Ribot
Directed and Devised by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Produced by Hannah Smith
Lighting Design by Seth Rook-Williams
Photography by Richard Davenport
SHORTS
WHISTLEBLOWER
by Nasi Voutsas
Theatre 503
ObamAmerica Festival
2014
Performed by Julian Moore-Cooke and Robin Toller
Directed by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Produced by OverHere Theatre
SCHOOLBOY
by Sam Grabiner
The Cockpit
Little Pieces of Gold
2014
Performed by Nasi Voutsas and Haydn Whiteside
Directed by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Little Pieces of Gold produced by Suzette Coon
DREAMS OF A SCHOLAR
by Emma Denis-Edwards
Ovalhouse
33% Festival
2013
Performed by Daniela Pasquini, Milly Prett and Eleanor Dillon-Reams
Directed by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Produced by Ovalhouse
THIS WAY UP
By Antler
C Venues, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Debut Festival, East 15 Acting School
2012
Performed and Devised by Richard Perryman, Nasi Voutsas, Daniela Pasquini, Louise Trigg, Jessica Stone, Daniel Ainsworth
Original songs by Richard Perryman and Nasi Voutsas
Directed and Devised by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Originally performed and devised with Nicola Rainford and Anthony Stephen Springall
Designed by Lucy Attwood
Film stills from footage by Alex Pasquini