Conflux PITCH Scratch Night - Cabaret and Live Music

Pitch is back! Conflux’s scratch night has been revamped to be bigger, better, and bolder, with emerging and established artists performing work-in-development alongside live music acts.

Whether you're an artist, producer, or just interested in what we do, come join us for a night of physical performance, music, drinks and more.

PITCH Cabaret Acts

Fraser Hooper
World-renowned clown Fraser Hooper is bringing his skills from New Zealand to Glasgow to perform a scratch piece at PITCH!
Fraser has been in the clowning business for 25 years and has appeared in nearly every major street theatre festival in the world, was a regular tutor at The National Circus Centre in London, and has won several awards. At PITCH, Fraser will try out a new piece, ‘Getting there!’ Take one desperate clown, add a dose of eccentric dance and wood chopping, mix in sounds effects and audience participation, sprinkle on some mime, serve and enjoy.

Katie Rebich
Katie is a circus performer, stilt walker, and aerialist, originally hailing from the US but now based in Edinburgh where she teaches aerial skills. At PITCH she’ll perform ‘Lamplighter’. Lighting the streetlight and putting it out again marks a passage of time we all go through no matter who we are. ‘Lamplighter’ focuses on the ritual that happens at each sunrise and sunset, highlighted for an instant, and then let go.

Suzie Ferguson
A woman is seduced, and in turn seduces, her fur coat…Suzie Ferguson’s new piece at PITCH is based on the short story Baby Bunting by Rose Ruane and inspired by the documentary Grey Gardens. It also takes something away from Roald Dahl’s The Twits: “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.”

Héloïse Thual, Ilias Poimenidis, Despina Isaia, Clare Marcie, and Jen Martin
‘Butterfly to Be’ is an exploration of pop culture’s utopian views on female and male bodies and the distorted representation of love and consumption in contemporary advertisement. Héloïse Thual received the New Playwright Award for her project ‘Unequally of Clay and Diamonds’, and Ilias Poimenidis is a theatre director with extensive experience in improvisation and physical theatre.

Lewis Sherlock
Lewis will bring ‘Forgiveness from the ‘art(s)’’, the unconventional Confessional Box in which artists and art enthusiasts alike come and seek forgiveness for their artistic sins – no matter how grave or mundane they may be. Single audience members will be invited into the cathartic process of expunging their artistic burdens.

Compère: Izzy Stott
Izzy Stott is a Scottish multi-disciplinary artist and idiot. She applied to PITCH with an exciting new solo show, hoping to dazzle the theatre people of Glasgow with her wit and talent. Conflux were less enthusiastic however, and asked her to be the compère for the evening instead.

Live Music: TeenCanteen
TeenCanteen are Carla Easton, Sita Pieraccini, Chloe Phillip, and Deborah Smith, four young women from Glasgow who will bring their indie-pop and girl-group harmonies to PITCH. They’ve performed at several festivals around Scotland as well as playing a live session on Marc Riley’s radio show on BBC Radio 6. They’re currently recording their debut album Sister, for which they’ve just succeeded in raising the needed funds. You can still support them and order some of the many things for grabs on their PledgeMusic page! http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/teencanteendebutalbum

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