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FANTASTIC NEWS! With 16 days to go before our Crowdfunder time runs out GROTTO has passed its target of £500. Don't worry, you can still donate if you are int he mood to do so (and want to get in Santa's good books). Just click the link. £20 gets you a personalised letter from the man himself.
GROTTO opens at the New Wimbledon Theatre Studio on June 6th. Tickets are on sale now.
...and GROTTO will be on everyday (bar the middle Monday) of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2023 at Just the Fancy (venue 88).
GROTTO is unseasonable, unreasonable & unsuitable for brats. A legendary figure has signed in for some of out-of-season rehab. Is he the real thing, or another unemployed actor in between Santa gigs? Created and performed by Terry Victor, a jolly fat man who has seen the GROTTO from the dark side: expect juicy namedrops, super-salacious Santa secrets and naff Xmas rapping zhoushed with a bijou touch of drag.
There can only be one Santa but as more and more of the legend’s diverse personalities show up it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas will never be the same. Seeing is believing.
GROTTO will be our first Notional flourish since lockdown... and it promises to be big. Dates are lining up, tickets will be on sale.
GROTTO is unseasonable, unreasonable & unsuitable for brats. A legendary figure has signed in for some of out-of-season rehab. Is he the real thing, or another unemployed actor in between Santa gigs? Created and performed by Terry Victor, a jolly fat man who has seen the GROTTO from the dark side: expect juicy namedrops, super-salacious Santa secrets and naff Xmas rapping zhoushed with a bijou touch of drag.
There can only be one Santa but as more and more of the legend’s diverse personalities show up it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas will never be the same. Seeing is believing.
Notional Theatre has existed as an informal occasional company since 1986, as a small umbrella to shelter a variety of projects initiated by Terry Victor.
Over the years Notional Theatre has presented contemporary political theatre, including: NO OFFENCE (2008) and the Welsh premiere of Caryl Churchill's SEVEN JEWISH CHILDREN (2010); children’s theatre, including: JACKO’S JIGGUMBOB (1989-2005) and Grimms' HANS, MY HEDGEHOG (1993); stage adaptations drawn from literature: WELL THUMBED, a portmanteau of the bawdy, as an ensemble and revisited as a one-man performance (2000, 2016-2018), Tolstoy’s MEMOIRS OF A LUNATIC (1986) and ANISSIA (1990); interactive museum interpretation: THE BUTLER AND THE HOUSEKEEPER at Tredegar House (1998-2006); at Newport Museum, various interactive pieces and themed characters (2003-6).
In September 2011, following advice from ACW, Notional Theatre was reconstituted as a formal enterprise in order to develop and tour FRAGMENTS OF ASH which had just enjoyed a critically acclaimed run on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
In November 2011 the beginnings of AWKWARD TURTLE FLIPS THE BIRD were shown as part of the WMC's Incubator and in March 2012 an 'instant performance' of Liu Xiaobo's YOU WAIT FOR ME WITH DUST was staged in the foyer of the Sherman Theatre. In May and June 2012, FRAGMENTS OF ASH toured to great reviews. AWKWARD TURTLE FLIPS THE BIRD took up much of 2013 and, among other outcomes, became a chapter in “Global English Slang’ (Routledge, 2014).
2014 was very experimental in tone and much concerned with responding to visual art. TWO OLD CORINTHIANS was created and performed for, and in front of, an untitled canvas by Helen Bur as a part of the Solve et Coagula exhibition which opened the Abacus gallery in Cardiff. THE GOSPEL OF NULLIFIDIAN was created with comic book artist Mike Collins and performed at Chapter as a script-in-development; the work explored the possibilities of graphic novels as a theatrical form. The third piece in this triptych was WHAAM! a short radio play by Terry Victor which responded to Roy Lichtenstein's painting of the same title; the play was commissioned for Arts Council Wales and Radio Cardiff. Notional Theatre was back at the Abacus for the Worldwide Reading for Edward Snowden.
In 2016 Notional Theatre was 30 years of age and celebrating our 5th birthday by revisiting a show that was 16-years’ old! There was some talk of developing a site-specific piece from ideas touched upon in AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES and having a birthday party. So far neither of those has happened. In 2017 WELL THUMBED, in collaboration with the fine artist Carl Chapple, enjoyed the full run of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Now, it’s 2018 and Notional Theatre is reformed and reborn again. As of April 24th we became Notional Theatre C.I.C. (that’s a Community Interest Company), with a board of directors and a new bank account. We are the same old notion-driven company but with these structures now in place we should be in a position to bring an extraordinary piece of work to the stage. This one is inspired inspired by Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ and the aging process. It will be a mighty collaboration….