LIFT '99 Blasts Off Today
Date: 14 June 1999
The tenth London International Festival of Theatre opens today for its bi-ennial three-week run. Fifteen shows from countries including Caracas, Italy, France, Hungary, Israel, Australia and South Africa will be shown at venues around London to 21 June. In addition to the international participants, LIFT '99 will include five special festival commissions from UK artists.
Highlights from abroad include Urban Dream Capsule, a two-week, 24-hour a day performance from Australia featuring four guys living in an apartment that will be staged across four, un-curtained windows of the Arding and Hobbs department store in Clapham, south London. Meanwhile, Italy's Romeo Castellucci company will perform Gulio Cesare, the Italian drama rooted in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, at the South Bank Centre.
LIFT has also collaborated for the first time with the Barbican Centre to bring two productions to London as part of both LIFT and the Barbican's BITE:99 event. These include a French production of Marivaux's The Game of Love and Chance, directed by Jean-Pierre Vincent, and Heiner Goebbels' music theatre piece Black on White, first staged in Frankfurt in 1996.
Additional discussions, workshops and cabaret events will be held at the Lift '99 Club aboard HMS President, moored on the Victoria Embankment. For further information, contact the festival box office on +44-171-638-8891.
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