Natural PRESS RELEASES
NATURALS OFF TO CHINA FOR 5 MONTHS
19th February 2010
Bath’s Natural Theatre Company is pleased to announce that it has been invited by the British Council to perform at the British Pavilion at World Expo 2010 in Shanghai.
The Naturals have performed their particular brand of humorous and quintessentially British street theatre at many of the international Expos in recent years, including Osaka, Kunming, Seville, Korea, Lisbon and Brisbane. They were of course resident at the Millennium Dome throughout 2000.
The British Pavilion in Shanghai is designed as a cathedral of light and has the appearance of a sculpture that has just been unwrapped. The ‘wrapping paper’ forms an undulating green piazza the size of a football pitch around the building and it is here the Naturals and other UK performers will be working.
The contract begins April 19th and will last for five months. Twenty two of the company’s performers will be travelling to Shanghai, in groups of four or five. Temperatures in the city reach the middle nineties in August and what with the exceptionally high humidity, it remains to be seen if our Flowerpot masks, or rather the people wearing them, will wilt!
The Expo is huge and a metro line is being constructed to cope with the expected eighty million visitors. Over forty thousand people per day will pass through the British pavilion, which will help Natural Theatre’s audience figures no end!
The organisers have requested the company’s classic scenarios such as the Flowerpots and the Pink Suitcases, but in the week leading up to the Bath Comedy Festival, the entire company will be devising some new characters and pieces which will be presented for the first time on the streets of Bath on the festival’s opening day, which falls appropriately on April 1st. The best scenarios will then be transferred to Shanghai. You saw it here first, folks!
Further details:
Ralph Oswick
ralph@naturaltheatre.co.uk
Tel. 01225 469131