Act provocateur international
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Act Provocateur International was the resident theatre company at the Lion & Unicorn in Kentish Town
until 2008. A Fringe theatre, most productions run between two and four weeks. The company has taken productions to various theatre festivals around the world, including eleven visits to the Edinburgh Fringe
. Content varies between classic and new writing. 2007 saw the company run a festival of one-person shows.
(Principal Actor).
Best known for "hard-hitting in-yer-face" style of theatre and for supporting young actors, it became well-known as a company that actively promoted new writing, as well as obscurer Eastern European writers who had fallen out of fashion. The company produced many shows at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre in Kentish Town, London, including touring to various festivals around the world.
Described as 'the most fearless theatre company in London' [First Act] but also more commonly reviewed in terms of the excessive sexual nature of their productions ("The director, Victor Sobchak, is disconcertingly obsessed with the women in this play...Sobchak takes rather too many opportunities to put them on display"
API disbanded in June 2008 following a takeover, which saw a former employee of Sobchak's take over the day to day running of the theatre.
Iaione Perez is now based in Spain working on her film career.
Andy McQuade
released his autobiography, 'Breaking The Chain' in April 2008. McQuade set up his own theatre company with William Whitehurst, http://www.secondskintheatre.com Second Skin Theatre
, producing original writing and slated to produce an original production of the mythical tale of 'Rasputin'.
Victor Sobchak is in the final stages of opening London's first baroque theatre and the launch has been reported as taking place in May/June 2010.
Kentish Town
Kentish Town is an area of north west London, England in the London Borough of Camden.-History:The most widely accepted explanation of the name of Kentish Town is that it derived from 'Ken-ditch' meaning the 'bed of a waterway'...
until 2008. A Fringe theatre, most productions run between two and four weeks. The company has taken productions to various theatre festivals around the world, including eleven visits to the Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh Fringe
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world’s largest arts festival. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August...
. Content varies between classic and new writing. 2007 saw the company run a festival of one-person shows.
an "In your Face" Theatre Company
Act Provocateur was founded in 2001 by Victor Sobchak (Artistic Director), Iaione Perez (Principal Actor) and Andy McQuadeAndy McQuade
Andy McQuade is a British theatre director and writer. Co-founder of defunct Act Provocateur International is now a writer and theatre director, with his own theatre company Second skin theatre which 'promotes new writing and readaptations of classics'....
(Principal Actor).
Best known for "hard-hitting in-yer-face" style of theatre and for supporting young actors, it became well-known as a company that actively promoted new writing, as well as obscurer Eastern European writers who had fallen out of fashion. The company produced many shows at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre in Kentish Town, London, including touring to various festivals around the world.
Described as 'the most fearless theatre company in London' [First Act] but also more commonly reviewed in terms of the excessive sexual nature of their productions ("The director, Victor Sobchak, is disconcertingly obsessed with the women in this play...Sobchak takes rather too many opportunities to put them on display"
API disbanded in June 2008 following a takeover, which saw a former employee of Sobchak's take over the day to day running of the theatre.
Iaione Perez is now based in Spain working on her film career.
Andy McQuade
Andy McQuade
Andy McQuade is a British theatre director and writer. Co-founder of defunct Act Provocateur International is now a writer and theatre director, with his own theatre company Second skin theatre which 'promotes new writing and readaptations of classics'....
released his autobiography, 'Breaking The Chain' in April 2008. McQuade set up his own theatre company with William Whitehurst, http://www.secondskintheatre.com Second Skin Theatre
Second Skin Theatre
Second Skin Theatre was formed by actor/director Andy McQuade and prize-winning American author William Whitehurst in 2007.McQuade was one of the co-founders of notorious Act provocateur international who were renowned for their hard-hitting 'In yer face' style of theatre...
, producing original writing and slated to produce an original production of the mythical tale of 'Rasputin'.
Victor Sobchak is in the final stages of opening London's first baroque theatre and the launch has been reported as taking place in May/June 2010.