Sleepdogs bring The Bullet And The Damage Done to Bristol Proms
Another completely different sort of concert gripped the Bristol Old Vic as Sleepdogs brought a remixed version of their acclaimed production, The Bullet And The Bass Trombone, to Bristol Proms.
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Sleepdogs presented a special late-night remix of their theatre show The Bullet And The Bass Trombone.
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It was a fractured narrative comes together around a haunting soundtrack, part-electronic, part-orchestral.
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It was a portrait of a city in chaos, an orchestra caught up in a military coup and a new music being made of the voices, stories and sounds that emerge.
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The Guardian described The Bullet And The Bass Trombone as "Harrowing, intelligent, beautifully crafted... and ultimately incredibly uplifting in an impossible-to-describe kind of way."
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Sleepdogs are Tanuja Amarasuriya and Timothy X Atack. They make stories and prompts to the imagination for theatre, film, sound and online.
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"We like to be wilfully interdisciplinary in our creative process", say the pair about their work.
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"the live art we make is often heavily rooted in narrative fiction; our theatre is regularly described as cinematic, despite its often simple, sparse staging; our films might be inspired by stand-up comedy or the experimental texts and processes of live art", say Sleepdogs.
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"We make work because we want to share stories, imagine alternative existences and discover new perspectives with audiences"
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"We’re not especially interested in a purity of artform, and our projects often get remixed from one form to another as they develop"
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Sleepdogs with The Bullet And The Damage Done ably rounded off day three of Bristol Proms.