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ASTRA: Multimedia Theatre (2022)

ASTRA, a stage adaptation of The Gaia Chronicles designed and directed by Raven Kaliana and written and produced by Naomi Foyle, won the 2022 Brighton Fringe ONCA Green Curtain Award for work that engages artists and audiences with social and environmental challenges. ASTRA is currently being upscaled for future performances – for more information visit ASTRA: THE EPIC.

Trailer & Documentary | Programme

ASTRA Theatrical Trailer and Mini-Documentary

‘ASTRA Theatrical Trailer’, directed by Raven Kaliana, is a one minute video introducing ASTRA (2022), a multimedia stage adaptation of The Gaia Chronicles by Naomi Foyle. The trailer features footage of table-top and shadow puppets designed and built by Raven Kaliana, reviewer quotes from Reviews Hub and Fringe Review, and interview footage with Voice Actress/Singer Susanna Paisio. An Arts Council England funded production.

‘At the Heart of ASTRA’ is a six minute video documentary on the making of the multimedia theatre piece ASTRA (2022), featuring footage of table-top and shadow puppets designed and built by Raven Kaliana, and interviews with (in order of appearance) writer/producer Naomi Foyle, director/puppet maker Raven Kaliana, theatre critic Simon Jenner, puppeteer Gun Suen, voice actress/singer Susanna Paisio, puppeteer Sara Guedes, voice actor Cornelia Colman and Community Outreach Officer Ümit Öztürk. An Arts Council England funded production.

Programme

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Johnny Boyfriend is an audio piece by Naomi Foyle with music by Richard Miles. 9mins 30sec.
Listen to it on Soundcloud here

Good Definition: a videopoem by Naomi Foyle and Anneliese Holles, with camera, editing and SFX by Amy Hope & music by Richard Miles.
Watch it on Vimeo here

Urban Pillow is the spoken word/electronica duo Naomi Foyle and Richard Miles.

Urban Pillow works include:

'Forgive the Rain' (34'33"). Featuring poems by Rumi and Naomi Foyle and recordings of zippers and steam engines (1997).
Listen to it on Soundcloud here

'Not Quite Arrived' (5'19''). From the limited edition CD Aphrodite's Answering Machine (2003), a prose-poem about transience and vulnerability, inspired by Lady Godiva, Nico's passport ('No Fixed Address'), an elegant Montreal squatter, and a cocktail bar in Seoul.
Listen to it on Soundcloud here

'Good Definition' (3'41"). From Aphrodite's Answering Machine, a spot of Anglo-Saxon up-frontery . . . also available in The Night Pavilion, and as a videopoem on Viemo here.
Listen to it on Soundcloud here

'Liberties' (3'16'').  Two libertines in a Montreal railyard meet Jean Genet and a pack of stray dogs. A shaggy ink cap story from Aphrodite's Answering Machine.
Listen to it on Soundcloud here

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