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31 AUGUST | MABLETHORPE

1 SEPTEMBER | SKEGNESS

2 SEPTEMBER | SKEGNESS

One of the biggest family-friendly cultural arts festival in the UK with an incredible programme of outdoor theatre.

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Magna Vitae, Trust for Leisure and Culture welcomes you to SO FestivalI am delighted to bring a distinctively European flavour to this year’s festival with a fabulous programme of spectacular events for all the family.

Lincolnshire’s popular resorts of Mablethorpe and Skegness, like most communities, have had their ups and downs. Despite their many challenges, they each have their individual charm. These two sides of community life are reflected in our 2018 festival programme. We bring together some of the UK’s and Europe’s most acclaimed and diverse artists, who inject these themes into their work. We hope this will encourage debate about the future of the local area.

As an ‘outsider’, it has been a great privilege for me to engage with the people of Mablethorpe and Skegness and an honour to be part of such a great festival. I would like to thank everyone who has played a part in supporting SO Festival 2018.

Jens Frimann Hansen Artistic Director of SO Festival, Helsingør Teater and Passage Festival

CONTENTS PageFestival at a Glance 4Show Information 9Visitor Information 36Map of Skegness 38

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FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE TIME SHOW COMPANY LOCATION DURATION PAGE

MABLETHORPE - FRIDAY 31 AUGUST 2018

12pm The Bookworms

Rhubarb Theatre

Promenade 30 mins 27

12pm The Big Family Fadunito Promenade 1 hr 22

1pm Two Seconds Du Petit Monsieur


1pm Street Theatre Rhubarb Theatre


1.45pm Willy and Wally Cocoloco Promenade 45 mins 15

2.30pm The Bookworms

Rhubarb Theatre


2.30pm The Big Family Fadunito Promenade 1 hr 22

3.30pm Street Theatre Rhubarb Theatre


4.15pm Willy and Wally Cocoloco Promenade 45 mins 15

4.30pm Two Seconds Du Petit Monsieur


SKEGNESS - SATURDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2018

12pm The Actual Reality Arcade

Matthew Harrison

Tower Gardens Spot 1

6 hrs 25

12pm Fazzoletto Circo Ripopolo Tower Gardens Spot 2

20 mins 14

12pm The Brooklyn Healer

Miraculous Theatre Company

Compass Gardens

2 hrs 26

12pm The Bookworms

Rhubarb Theatre

Compass Gardens

30 mins 27

12.30pm Fazzoletto Circo Ripopolo Tower Gardens Spot 2

20 mins 14

12.45pm Bingo Lingo Wild N Beets Tower Gardens Spot 4

35 mins 29

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20 mins 14


Compass Gardens

30 mins 19


Tower Esplanade

30 mins 28

1.30pm Île O Cie Barolosolo Tower Gardens Spot 3

45 mins 13

2pm The Big Family Fadunito Promenade 1 hr 22


Rhubarb Theatre

Compass Gardens

30 mins 27


20 mins 14

3pm Willy and Wally Cocoloco Promenade 45 mins 15


20 mins 14


35 mins 29


Tower Esplanade

30 mins 28

3.30pm Slapstick and Slaughter

Desperate Men Compass Gardens

40 mins 18

3.30pm The Murphy Effect

1Watt Hildreds Shopping Centre

1 hr 9


20 mins 14


45 mins 13

4.30pm Two Seconds Du Petit Monsieur

Compass Gardens

30 mins 19

4.30pm The Brooklyn Healer


Promenade 2 hrs 26

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Tower Esplanade

30 mins 28

7pm Slapstick and Slaughter

Desperate Men Tower Gardens Spot 4

40 mins 18

8pm Willy and Wally Cocoloco North End Car Park

45 mins 15

8pm Amor Bilbobasso Tower Gardens Spot 5

30 mins 11

8.30pm The Big Family Fadunito Tower Gardens 1 hr 22

9pm Wanted eVenti Verticali North End Car Park

30 mins 21

SKEGNESS - SUNDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2018

12pm The Actual Reality Arcade

Matthew Harrison

Tower Gardens Spot 1

6 hrs 25


20 mins 14



Compass Gardens

2 hrs 26

12pm The Bookworms

Rhubarb Theatre

Compass Gardens

30 mins 27


20 mins 14

12.30pm The Small Circus

Fadunito Promenade 1 hr 23


35 mins 29


20 mins 14


Compass Gardens

30 mins 19


Tower Esplanade

30 mins 28


45 mins 13


2pm The Murphy Effect

1Watt Hildreds Shopping Centre

1 hr 9

2.30pm The SOuvenir Walk

Desperate Men Tower Gardens Spot 5

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Rhubarb Theatre

Compass Gardens

30 mins 27

2.30pm The Small Circus

Fadunito Promenade 1 hr 23


20 mins 14


Compass Gardens

30 mins 19


35 mins 29


Tower Esplanade

30 mins 28


20 mins 14


20 mins 14



Promenade 2 hrs 26


45 mins 13

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The Murphy Effect 1Watt

Skegness 1 September 3.30pm Hildreds Shopping Centre

Skegness 2 September 2pm Hildreds Shopping Centre

The show sees four middle-of-the-road oddballs visit their favourite town spot…and then gradually let go of their inhibitions.

The French-based artists all have eclectic backgrounds in theatre, dance and music and come together in The Murphy Effect in improbable and often unrepeatable ways. Let yourself indulge in letting nonsense take over your daily lives.

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Amor Bilbobasso

Skegness 1 September 8pm Tower Gardens, Spot 5

A couple in a ring. They’ve got quite a few years of marriage under their belt, and now their tenderness is made up of cruelty and violence. Today, on edge, they can’t get close without murdering each other. The smallest thing can ignite the situation. Actually everything ignites in their home! Cooking, laundry, vacuuming: all these activities and everyday objects find themselves in the middle of a real domestic and unpredictable bullfight where flame, smoke and coloured flying sparks transform an all-too-common situation into a stunning, giant firecracker. This show is a comedy, a fight, a duel. It’s ambivalent, crazy, playful, savage and tenacious. You’ll never quarrel the same way again!

Hervé Perrin and Delphine Dartus started Bilbobasso in 2006 in France.

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Île O Cie Barolosolo

Skegness 1 September 1.30pm & 4.15pm

Tower Gardens, Spot 3

Skegness 2 September 1.30pm & 4.15pm


A circus show ankle-deep in water? Why not! Two clowns step into the spotlight in this unique show where the Chinese pole becomes a flute, the water turns into a drum and the stage… is filled with water. While one gets his feet wet, so to speak, the other goes to great lengths to avoid a dunking. In a production over flowing with wildly hysterical shenanigans and adorably poetic scenes, the show will leave the little ones – and their parents – in fits of laughter.

Since 2006, the Barolosolo company has built an unseemly poetic and farcical world diverting our every days items’ purposes. This circus company creates a peculiar closeness with its audience exploiting technical acts in its performances.

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Fazzoletto Circo Ripopolo

Skegness 1 September 12pm, 12.30pm, 1pm, 3pm, 3.30pm & 4pm


Skegness 2 September 12pm, 12.30pm, 1pm, 3pm, 3.30pm & 4pm


A circus tent, which was not shrink-resistant, was thrown in the boiling-hot laundry. The result is a circus tent size 3m by 4m and 3m high. The audience, as well as the artists, have shrunk. Gabriële and Giancarlo did NOT and perform six humorous acts: a tight-rope walker, magician, trapeze, human cannon-ball, Russian pyramid and a lion tamer!

Limited capacity, booking advisable – visit sofestival.org/fazzolettoCirco Ripopolo have travelled throughout Europe with their non-verbal performances since 2003.

Willy and Wally Cocoloco

Mablethorpe 31 August 1.45pm & 4.15pm Promenade

Skegness 1 September 3pm 8pm

Promenade North End Car park

Willy and Wally are up to their necks in mountains of plastic but they carry on clowning regardless. As well as talking a load of rubbish, they perform a multi-dimensional, slapstick comedy that highlights the effects of climate change.

Cocoloco presents raucous, hilarious and ever so slightly bent theatre. This is cabaret performance and street theatre with a twist.

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The SOuvenir Walk Desperate MenSkegness 2 September 2.30pm Meet at Tower Gardens, Spot 5

The SOuvenir Walk is an open invitation to take a creative ramble with friends and strangers through the streets of Skegness in the company of two dancing Desperate Men, an accordion playing trumpeter and a magic mandala making bag lady. Jon and Richard will regale you with tales and absurd improvisations; introduce you to hidden gems, beautiful ideas and important places. There will be games, souvenirs, mascots, interventions, play, song, poetry and motorbikes, and we’ll join in the attempt to build to the world’s biggest Insect Hotel and enter the Guinness Book of Records at our final destination.The walk will last about two hours. You can join in from the start or find us at rest stops along the way.

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Showcasing on 1 September. Visit sofestival.org for

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Slapstick and Slaughter Desperate MenSkegness 1 September 3.30pm

7pmCompass GardensTower Gardens Spot 4

Two men recklessly attempt to confront the absurdity of war in just 35 minutes, using their bodies, their voices and the surrealist toolbox of DADAism. Playful, physical and blackly comedic, Slapstick and Slaughter examines how the barbaric chaos of World War One manifested itself in the nihilistic, nonsensical art that grew from it. This theatre show splatters big ideas on a small canvas, exploring art’s reaction to the war’s wholesale destruction of lives, the old order and old hypocrisies and finding echoes in equally absurd modern conflicts.

The UK’s Desperate Men’s mischievous, warm hearted work invites audiences to ask serious questions about the world.

Two Seconds Du Petit MonsieurMablethorpe 31 August 1pm & 4.30pm Promenade

Skegness 1 September 1pm & 4.30pm Compass Gardens

Skegness 2 September 1pm & 3pm Compass Gardens

This one-man show by Paul Durand offers the audience a unique performance, which looks at modern-day life in a creative and artistic way. Lots of laughter guaranteed as this silent artist faces the trials and tribulations of everyday objects, from pop-up tents to suitcases!

Amandine Barrillon and Ivan Chary created La Compagnie du Petit Monsieur in 1998.

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Wanted eVenti Verticali

Skegness 1 September 9pm North End Car Park

WANTED is a virtual animation… live!

A 2d cartoon with 3d heroes. The videography, inspired by comics and videogames of the 80s, portrays different landscapes and scenarios with which the characters interact. The two artists are tossed around between spy-story scenes and acrobatic combats. From Pac Man labyrinths and Super Mario settings to a risky ‘Mission Impossible’ … you’ll be be watching with bated breath! With the police running after them, the two heroes go on an adventurous trip balanced between real world and fantasy.

Performing for the first time in the UK, the artists are SO excited about bringing their world-renowned show to a British audience.

eVenti Verticali is a cultural association aiming to promote an unusual type of theatre to be performed on vertical and aerial stages.

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The Small Circus Fadunito

Skegness 2 September 12.30pm & 2.30pm Promenade

The smallest circus in the world presents “The Flea Circus show!” The circus staff will extract hair lice from the audience in order to perform their show.

Since 2003 Fadunito have performed street theatre for all audiences. Countries around the world have been invaded by their bustling shows, which constantly have a second critical point of view, beyond pure entertainment.

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The Big Family Fadunito

Mablethorpe 31 August 12pm & 2.30pm Promenade

Skegness 1 September 2pm8.30pm

Promenade Tower Gardens

A mother and her children are going for a walk around the village. Walk-act with really special characters.

Fadunito is a Catalan street theatre company which was founded by Ferran Orobitg and Ivan Alcoba. They have performed in more than 30 countries, at the most popular festivals around the world.

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The Actual Reality Arcade Matthew Harrison

Skegness 1 September 12pm to 6pm Tower Gardens, Spot 1

Skegness 2 September 12pm to 6pm Tower Gardens, Spot 1

The Actual Reality Arcade is a life-sized interactive game zone for all ages, inspired by classic arcade games. Pilot spaceships, dodge barrels, avoid lasers, build Tetris walls, fire rockets, shoot alien invaders and become Pac-Man. Enter the Actual Reality Arcade for physical fun where you bring the games to life.

A place for children of all ages, 0-100, to play and laugh together whilst also providing a healthy dose of nostalgia for the classic games of the past.

Instagram your photos at #actualrealityarcade

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The Brooklyn Healer Miraculous Theatre CompanySkegness 1 September 12pm to 2pm Compass Gardens

4.30pm to 6.30pm Promenade

Skegness 2 September 12pm to 2pm Compass Gardens

4pm to 6pm Promenade

After unexpectedly receiving the healing gift from a dying Chinese man, Charlie O’ Taney was forced to make an abrupt career change from hit-man for the Mafia, to healer. Step inside Charlie’s faithful automobile, his cabinet of miracles, where the audience becomes the centre of a refreshingly funny and profound miracle. This act is personalised for groups of up to four people at a time.

Miraculous Theatre Company specialises in devising immersive, outdoor theatre for the public realm.

The Bookworms Rhubarb Theatre

Mablethorpe 31 August 12pm & 2.30pm Promenade



Wriggling their way in and out of trouble, the Bookworms pop-up to bring their stories to life! With a rickety handcart library and some novel ideas, surprises leap off the page wherever they roam. Join our funny guides as they worm their way into twisty and fantastic adventures through imaginative worlds. Rhubarb Theatre’s new touring festival show is ‘bound’ to be crazy!

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Street Theatre Rhubarb TheatreMablethorpe 31 August 1pm & 3.30pm Promenade

Skegness 1 September 1pm, 3.30pm & 5pm

Tower Esplanade

Skegness 2 September 1pm & 3.30pm Tower Esplanade

Keep an eye out for these mischievous bookworms when you’re out and about with your day. Lincolnshire based, Rhubarb Theatre, tours locally and nationally, taking its unique style of innovative and engaging theatre to small and large communities alike.

Established in 2000, Rhubarb Theatre offers a diverse range of performances, bespoke workshops and residencies for schools,

communities, festivals, and anyone wishing to work in an exciting, creative and innovative way.

Bingo Lingo Wild N BeetsSkegness 1 September 12.45pm & 3.30pm Tower Gardens, Spot 4

Skegness 2 September 12.45pm & 3.30pm Tower Gardens, Spot 4

Played on oversized bingo cards it’s a chance for everyone to get involved. Beryl and Cyril are your comperes for the game and they love the joy Bingo brings to many. It’s this enjoyment that they want to share with you in the hope to make Bingo an official Paralympic sport. Bingo Lingo is a game for everyone, where disability politics meets cheeky end of the pier humour. A reinvention of a great British tradition. So it’s eyes down for a game like you’ve never played before.

Wild N Beets is the creation of Daryl Beeton and Nicola Miles-Wildin who explore ways to make outdoor work accessible and inclusive.

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Pirate Academy Gary Starr and the

Neverland Theatre Crew

Skegness 1 September 11am to 3pm Outside Hildreds Shopping Centre

The Pirate Academy is a school for wannabe pirates with Captain Filthy McNasty at the helm. Learn to dress and speak like a pirate, learning all of the tricks of the trade. Once you become a fully fledged pirate you will be given your own pirate map and sent on your way to sail around the Hildreds Shopping Centre in search of gold, chocolate Doubloons.

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the following for their continued support and partnership

throughout SO Festival.

SO Festival is a member of the Without Walls Associate Touring Network. Without Walls is the UK’s largest commissioner of outdoor art shows, taking inspiring new work to audiences all over the country and beyond. For more information about Without Walls visit withoutwalls.uk.com

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SO Festival is an associate member of The Coasters Network. Supported by Arts Council England’s Strategic Touring Fund, Coasters is a three year project that brings world-class circus and street arts work to coastal towns across England. SeaChange Arts lead a consortium of 11 organisations with the shared ambition of building relationships with audiences in areas of lower engagement and helping transform perceptions of coastal towns.

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PROGRAMME CHANGESWe do our best to keep everything running on time, however due to the nature of the festival, sometimes changes need to be made. Please visit our website, social media pages, information points and festival assistants to keep up to date with any changes. All programme details are correct at the time of going to print.

ACCESSWe are proud to be an accessible and inclusive festival. This year we have created a new, simple website. SO Festival has been awarded the Attitude is Everything; Charter of Best Practice Award and we have become a bronze status festival. This means we are showing our commitment to improve access for deaf and disabled people to enjoy live music and festivals.If you would like this information in a different format, please contact us on 01507 613449.SO Festival is proud to have received a T.E.D Age Friendly Business Award, ensuring the festival is welcoming and accessible to our older audiences.

STROBE AND FLASHING LIGHTINGWe would like to make our audiences aware that strobe lightning and flashing lights might be used during our performances of Amor and Wanted.

PHOTOGRAPHYMagna Vitae will be taking photos at today’s SO Festival event. These images will be used by Magna Vitae to share news about the festival, and to publicise our events. They may be used in press releases, printed publicity and appear on our social media pages. They will be stored securely for as long as the image remains relevant to the usage purpose. The maximum is likely to be 10 years. If you would like us to delete any photograph that you, or your child, are shown in please email us at [email protected].

FURTHER INFORMATIONMonday to Friday, 9am to 5pm

SO Festival, Meridian Leisure Centre, Wood Lane, Louth, Lincolnshire LN11 8SA01507 613449 | [email protected]

PLAN YOUR VISITWhether you’re travelling, finding a place to eat, or need somewhere to stay during the festival period, Visit Skegness will provide you with all the information you need about the area and much more when planning your trip to SO Festival.skegness.net

GETTING HEREGetting to the festival couldn’t be simpler. When visiting Skegness, you can get here by bus, train, coach and car. If organising a coach trip or taxi, ask your driver to drop you off outside Tower Gardens. Coaches can park at the Coach Station on Richmond Road.nationalrail.co.ukstagecoachbus.combrylaine.co.uk, 01205 364087, Local Bus CompanyRed Bus Taxi, 01754 765555, SkegnessTaxiA2B Taxis, 01754 761761, Skegness Taxi A to B Taxis, 01507 477915, Mablethorpe Taxi

CAR PARKINGCar parks are available at each location. Please note North End Car Park will not be available on 1 September due to the events taking place. e-lindsey.gov.uk/parkingWe will provide all updated information on sofestival.org

INFORMATION POINTSThere will be an information point in Tower Gardens, Skegness during SO Festival to help you during your visit. Keep an eye out for our festival assistants who will be in red SO Festival t-shirts and will be happy to point you in the right direction.

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