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THE JOINT PROJECT OF THE ILKHOM THEATRE and BLOW UP THEATRE (London)

THE IDEA:
• To work with DBC Pierre to adapt his novel Ludmila’s Broken English for the stage;
• To investigate and realise the two worlds in the novel – one set in the UK, and the other in the obscure Russian district of Ublisk Sector 41 – through a collaboration between UK-based company Blow Up Theatre, and the Ilkhom Theatre who are from Tashkent, Uzbekistan;
• To stage this epic tale using a combination of visual theatre, movement, music, and three languages.

THE STORY
Two parallel stories, in Britain and Ublisk Sector 41, inevitably collide like the continental plates of Europe and Asia, creating the landscape for a darkly comic tragedy: a story about former-Soviet territorial conflicts, conjoined twins, Russian mail-order brides, the struggle to find sense in the chaos of Western society, and
whether or not you can run a tractor on goats’ piss.
In Ublisk, Ludmila kills her abusive alcoholic grandfather when he tries to rape her.
This causes a major problem as, thanks to his pension vouchers, he was the only breadwinner in the Derev family. Her brother, Max, lost his job when the US corporation Global Solutions turned the ex-Soviet propellor factory, over to munitions production. (It doubles as a “sandwich applicator” factory on UN inspection days.)
Her mother and grandmother decide that Ludmila must leave and find work to support the family. Little do they know that Ludmila was planning on going anyway, by eloping with her lover Misha - a soldier in the Ubli army. And all the time the Gnez army is getting closer…
Meanwhile, in terror-struck London, Blair and Gordon (nicknamed Bunny due to his snaggle teeth and albino complexion) become the first adult conjoined twins to be successfully separated. Their care home is being privatised (Albion House was rumoured to have been set up to hide aberrations of nature by Charles II) and they are sent to London to integrate. As the weaker, more dependent twin, Bunny longs to return to the predictable comfort of Albion House; Blair yearns for the high life and to lose his virginity. Heady with ambition and new-found freedom, Blair lands a job with the “Sandwich Applicator Company”. They meet the CEO of Global Solutions, Harry Truman, who plies them with a “Howitzer”, a newly-developed Global
Solutions raspberry-flavoured Solipsidrine cocktail which loosens both your inhibitions and your conscience. That night Blair surfs the net, finds a Russian bride’s website, and sees Ludmila for the first time. High as a kite and armed with a handful of Howitzers, Blair tricks Bunny onto a plane bound for Ublisk to find the love of his
life…

Work above the joint project will pass in some stages:
The first stage - - will pass rehearsals of the first stages in London from June, 22 till July, 7 2007
The second stage - - will pass rehearsals in Tashkent in October - November 2007
Premiere of performance it is planned to the first quarter 2008
Premiere will take place in Tashkent and London.
Directors of the project - Mark Weil, Dominic Burdess and Tom Godwin

BLOW UP THEATRE
Formed in 1999 by Dominic Burdess and Tom Godwin, graduates of the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris, as an
umbrella for collaborative projects and artists producing new and innovative work, Blow Up have toured
nationally and internationally. Their latest show, The Illusion Brothers, directed by Marcello Magni, won a Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. As actors they have worked with companies such as Company F.Z, Told by an Idiot, The Clod Ensemble, Brouhaha, Theatre O, Cirque du Soleil, The Flying Machine, and
numerous theatres in the UK. They teach Physical Theatre, Mask, and Clown at various British drama schools.

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