Not Your Circus Dog Collective!
Crip Queer Punk Cabaret-Theatre
1 minute trailer of Not F**kin' Sorry!
2 minute film of behind-the-scenes of Not F**kin' Sorry!
NOT F**KIN' SORRY! PRODUCTION TIMELINE:
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Not F**kin' Sorry! 2016-2022
NoT YoUr CiRcUs DoG CoLlEcTiVe (NYCDC)
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Not Your Circus Dog Collective is:
Adam Smith, DJ (Housni Hassan), Daisy Hale, Emma Selwyn, Liselle Terret, Stephanie Newman, Emily Norris and Heather Johnson
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Consists of learning-disabled & neuro-divergent artists. NYCDC makes radical, political, subversive & shameless sexy punk queer crip cabaret-theatre. NYCDC is produced by The Hale, an Associate Company of Access All Areas.
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This archival website offers an insight into some of the processes, considerations and outcomes of Not F**kin' Sorry! so far. However the story continues.
Not F**kin' Sorry! is an artistic political response to the ongoing systematic discrimination and exclusion of learning disabled and neuro-divergent artists from the performing arts. NFS! is founded by the Arts Council of England.
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NOT F**KIN' SORRY! PRODUCTION TIMELINE:
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Sep/Dec 2022: National Tour of Not F**kin' Sorry!
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The Attenborough Centre Leicester Sep 2022
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A Bit Of A To Do, Croydon: 27 Oct 2022
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Contact Theatre, Manchester: 15 & 16 Nov 2022
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Unlimited at Southbank Centre, London: 17 Dec 2022
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Aug/Sep 2022: Soho Theatre, London (Main-house)
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Nov/Oct 2019: Soho Theatre, London
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Watch a fabulous NFS one min trailer
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Dec 2018: Royal Court Theatre, London
Take Up Space Cabaret at Royal Court Theatre: I co-curated, performed and directed feminist/queer public event & also directed an extract from my larger production of Not F**kin’ Sorry! & my own solo act, Flushed as Doris La Trine. Royal Court Theatre’s Take Up Space Cabaret , London Photos Available https://royalcourttheatre.com/cast/dorislatrine
https://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/takeupspacecabaret/
March 2018: Southbank Centre, London
Curated, produced and hosted Women Of The World Wickedly Wild Women Cabaret (800 people in the audience) at the Southbank Centre, London Photos available https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/126936-wickedly-wild-cabaret-2018 (INcl. testimony from Jude Kelly – website
Doris la trine and NFS
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Jan 2018: Soho Theatre, London (R&D)
Research & Development week at Soho Theatre to invited producer’s performance. Arts Council recognition, & direct impact into their Let’s Create 10year plan & focus on disability-arts. (Elevate Funding) http://www.accessallareastheatre.org/news/creative-collaborator-search
Dec 2016: Duckie's at the Electric Brixton
1,500 audience https://twitter.com/AAATheatre/status/805200123370307584
Photos available: http://www.duckie.co.uk/events/duckie-is-21
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Nov 2016: Bar Wotever at the RVT
Not Sorry! at Bar Wotever at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern
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July 2016: Performance Making Diploma for learning disabled & autistic adults at RCSSD
Not Sorry! ensemble performance at Royal Central School of Speech & Drama following a 3-week intensive devising
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Liselle co-curated Take Up Space Cabaret for Royal Court Theatre, London, Dec 2018 also directing an extract from Not F**kin' Sorry! with Emma & Steph as well as performing as Doris La Trine.
December 2018
Liselle co-curated Take Up Space Cabaret for Royal Court Theatre, London, Dec 2018 also directing an extract from Not F**kin' Sorry! with Emma & Steph as well as performing as Doris La Trine.
March 2018
I was commissioned to curate & host (as Doris La Trine) the WoW Cabaret March 2018 , Wickedly Wild Cabaret. I directed a shorter version of Not F**kin' Sorry! Katy, Emma and Steph. We had 800 people in the audience at the Southbank Centre, London
November 2017
Funded by Arts Council ELEVATE we had a week's R&D at Soho Theatre, London, to create a 20 minute iteration of NFS! This culminated to an invited sharing to prospective producers and the Arts Council. This followed by us gaining our first producer, Daisy Hale.
December 2016
I was commissioned by Duckie (Simon Casson) to create a version of of F**kin’ Sorry! for 1,500 people. We had 6 cast members, we rehearsed at UEL, & performed at The Electric Brixton to 1,500 queers. www.duckie.co.uk/archive
December 2016
Dec 2016, we performed Not F**kin’ Sorry! iteration at the fantastic Bar Wotever at Royal Vauxhall Tavern to about 100 people - it was a night to remember & to celebrate. To watch this short version, just click on the video below
https://woteverworld.com (please contact me for the film l.terret@uel.ac.uk)
July 2016
In 2014, Liselle co-formed (with Nick Llewellyn, AD of Access All Areas) the Diploma in Performance Making for adults with with learning disabilities and Autism with Access All Areas hosted at Royal Central School of Speech & Drama . Liselle regularly taught and directed on the course as well as co-developed the performance-art re-representing yourself anti-traditional-acting approach to the curriculum. In 2016, Liselle directed one of the Exit Festival shows to create a show, Not Sorry! with 8 of the actors.
This sewed the seeds to Not F**kin' Sorry!