Fail Better's Residency at The CAPITAL Centre

Working with Warwick students and staff through practical workshops, performance projects and work-in-progress showings, Fail Better's residency delivers CAPITAL's objective of developing creative thinking through forms of teaching and learning that emphasise active performance on the part of both teachers and learners. This will involve:

Learning Events: embedding the workshop methodology

• Applied Performance: a range of creative learning experiences (from Chemistry to Commerce) and continue to develop an ensemble of performers to contribute to public events (from Neuroscience to Networking).
• Performing Philosophy: an induction session for first-years, a third-year workshop as part of Textual Studies and the annual Phil/Lit Weekend. These events continue three years of collaborative work with the Philosophy and Literature course.
• Rehearsing Beckett: practical workshops for a range of modules within the departments of English and Theatre Studies. A specific area of expertise for our company's director, these sessions offer cutting-edge performance-based learning.

Theatrical Production: offering production placements

Fail Better are re-staging their critically acclaimed show Diary of a Madman (after Gogol, celebrating his 200th anniversary). This piece was named one of the best shows of 2007 in Time Out London and will play the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as part of the Underbelly's 10th Anniversary over a two week run (16th-30th August).

To continue develop the professional learning strand of the residency (crucial to the success of last year's Lorca project), we would like to offer four production placements to Warwick students. Following an application and interview process, we are delighted to announce the Fail Better Production Placements 2009:

• Assistant Producers: Jesse Meadows and Jenny Mills
• Assistant Director/Performer: James McPhun
• Assistant Stage Manager: Nat Rossetti

The students will be working as collaborators and colleagues with key company members. They will document the process and evaluate their work.

Performance Research: developing a student ensemble

Fail Better will continue their Research and Development work within the centre and our Artistic Director would like to offer the student ensemble the opportunity to continue their collaboration on our new projects, extending the work on 'recyclings' of Myth, Shakespeare and/or Beckett.