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PILOT #4 - A night of raw and untested material from regional theatre and performance companies, with post-show pizza.

It's good to say you were there at the beginning of something. It's even better to say that you helped make it…

Wed 23 July - 7:00pm
Sozzled Sausage
Regent St, Leamington Spa

After a sell-out back in April at the Pump Rooms, the unique regional performance night, PILOT returns to Leamington for the fourth time.
PILOT aims to provide a space where artists and performance companies in the West-Midlands can develop their own practice in an informal and supportive atmosphere.
Theatre, live-art, multi-media, scripted, devised or directed and no matter how rough round the edges - PILOT is a platform for any new work in need of an audience.
A host of diverse, new work will be performed by artists from across the West-Midlands, including Suzanne Cantwell and Babyslave.
Suzanne is an experienced choreographer who has only recently arrived in Coventry from America. She will be showing a solo section from a larger work entitled "Mrs. Someone", and is looking forward to showing her work for the first time in the UK.
Babyslave is a new project from Birmingham featuring Hypnotique, a multi-instrumentalist and leading thereminist plus electronic processing by a member of the experimental music project Carya Amara. Babyslave will be incorporating audience's interjections and responses into their music through electronic processing and the response of acoustic and etherwave instruments.
There aren't many rules about what can go on, as long as the work isn't finished! PILOT aims to provide a space where regional artists are free to experiment and try out new ideas on a willing audience. Always lively and unexpected, PILOT is the place to come to watch the beginnings of the theatre and performances of tomorrow.
But the night doesn't just end when the lights go down on the last act. May be there's something you would have done differently? Or perhaps you think your favourite bits need developing further? Well, the pizza has been ordered, the bar remains open and the performers want to hear everything you have to say in order to help them develop their work.
So don't just sit back and watch…watch and feed-back, eat pizza and party! When the talking stops the music begins and goes on until midnight, with DJ's from Leamington's Music Room laying down their unpredictable and compelling mix of classic and contemporary beats.
PILOT continues to go from strength to strength thanks to the generous and continuing support of Warwick Arts Centre.
Neil Darlison, Events Director, Warwick Arts Centre commented:
"Warwick Arts Centre is delighted to be able to support an initiative which encourages and develops the region's theatre-makers, dancers, film-makers, writers and so on. It is exciting and rewarding to be able to see and encourage the artists and art-forms of tomorrow."
The next PILOT event will be held in another local venue at the end of October. Anyone requiring further information, or interested in performing material should contact The Wrong Crowd at admin@thewrongcrowd.co.uk or call on 01926 421497.
You can check out the new autumn diary at Warwick Arts Centre by visiting www.warwickartscentre.co.uk or calling the box office on 024 7652 4524.

PILOT is organised by The Wrong Crowd and Swinging Man.

Notes:
PILOT #4
New night of live performance at The Sozzled Sausage
Regent St. Royal Leamington Spa
Wed 23 July 7pm - 12am

For further press information, photographs, interviews etc. please contact
Simon Day, Artistic co-director, the wrong crowd, on 07989759915 or email
simon@thewrongcrowd.co.uk

Date of release: 30 Jun 2003

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