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club piranha

Dende Collective in collaboration with Contact Young Actors Company

22 - 29 April 2006

Contact Theatre (Manchester)

 

Enter the world of the Club Piranha at your own risk and encounter bandidos, prostitutas, dictadores, and all the characters that inhabit this magical space. Let the famous storyteller Eva Luna guide you through the stories, lives, loves and sometimes deaths in this little part of South America.

 

Club Piranha was devised by the Contact Young Actors Company and then written by Dende's Montserrat Gili and directed by André Pink and Montserrat Gili.

About Contact Young Actors Company (CYAC)

CYAC is North West England’s most exciting and respected young acting company, formed by a diverse group of young people aged 15 to 25 who hail from across Greater Manchester. This next generation of emerging artists are encouraged to be forward thinking and innovative while working with the best of international, national and regional directors, producers and designers.

About the collaboration

The result of DENDE COLLECTIVE’s one month residency at Contact Theatre in April 2006 was a cabaret styled piece loosely inspired by short tales from the novel Stories of Eva Luna by the Chilean writer Isabel Allende.

CLUB PIRANHA fittingly married Dende’s Educational and Artistic ethos. While working with young people we devised and produced a professional show that became a sold out success during the whole run... and the CYAC was the perfect company to rise to the challenge. Together we took the audience to a Latin American Club populated by the characters of those stories, where their highly emotional lives were portrayed using all sorts of theatrical devices.

 

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