Stephen Armourae

STEPHEN ARMOURAE
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DEMIAN ALLAN’S THEATRE OF THE OCCULT
FIRST BLOOD THEATRE SEASON
20 June to 23 June
ART
Adaptation of Reza’s comedy on modern art
CATASTROPHE
Beckett’s last great work. Concerns the persecution of the Czechslovak Dissident Havel
LOVING THE JAMAICAN
A new comedy by Chris Scott. The story of 2 women and the same man in their lives
THE BEAR
One of Chekhov’s short comedies
FOUR
Armourae’s adaptation Of a surreal coemedy in which 4 people kill eachother.
Only to keep coming back to life
26 JUNE TO 1 JULY
SPARSE
A new dark comedy by Demian Allan. Set mostly in a male toilets it examines masculinity and power in modern relationships.
FAUST
New version by Stephen Armourae with references to Marlowe’s play. A mixture of comedy and satire questioning what is real and imaginary. With scenes not found in other versions of the story
BOXOFFICE
07951680903
0207 485 09897
'LION & UNICORN THEATRE'
42/44 Gaisford Street, Kentish Town, NW5
Transport:
Buses - 46, 134, C2, 214
Tube - Kentish Town
I know someone who would enjoy the forthcoming FAUST part of the NEW BLOOD THEATRE FESTIVAL in conjunction with the THEATRE OF THE OCCULT 25 June to 1 July, it being all medieval. Sadly I think you're tied up with rehearsals and performances the whole time. Good Luck XXX
& you have fans amoungst my fellow directors. They can't come to the gigs. They're busy with me
Directed by myself a bit, and a wonderful director called Lora (she is great, without her I'd be more useless than usual). Rewritten by me from Marlowe's text its darker, bloodier, nastier than the original & I've tried to insult everyone who can be offended. Christians: definately. Pagans, neo-pagans, tree huggers won't appreciate being compared to devil worshippers. Music from medieval sources, myself, a bit of Dead Can Dance and a bunch of girls who are far better than Dead Can Dance or myself.... on occassion.
According to a very nice and talented celebrity and actress I'm directing, having tudor beams in the ceiling is bad feng shui. That would explain a lot! Including the cross looking cat that kept sitting on me clearly thinking. "Give me a stroke I'm feeling tense and incompatible. stroke now! And what the hell is it with you and cherry juice?"
3 stabbings in Camden and another in Stoke Newington/Dalston this weekend and I'm in the middle
************************ Actor & mediocre polymath & director, writer, producer at a legendary (those that know it, think it legendary!) theatre near Camden, London; AND back writing music whilst I have use of a recording studio- you don't want to hear it; derivative & clumsy is putting it kindly! & some stuff in the blue section. That bit will make far more sense to most people looking at this) Wish my life was as exciting as it reads on here! "O Mysterious One!" according to someone who is rather special, beautiful& radiant when they're in a good mood with me! & a "great performer" says a really good actor & writer who looks like Stephen Berkoff. "Armourae! What kind of fucking name's that?" says a guy called Nana!
Back onstage at Act Provacteur from 8 May.
'LION AND UNICORN THEATRE'
Tuesday - Saturday: 7.30 pm
An experimetal comedy & an adaptation of Beckett
42/44 Gaisford Street, Kentish Town, NW5 Transport: Buses - 46, 134, C2, 214
Tube - Kentish Town
Concession tickets available for £7 if you added to my guest list
Psychology Test: More than one person I've seen does the following: Come to this page (why? unless its hiring me or checking who I'm promoting)& as soon as a certain someone says "she wanted to seee..." SLAM on the volume button to mute. "I've fucking heard enough of her..." how popular is this response?
Machaut would have complained about lack of 12 part harmonies. But the Medaeval Babes are far bettter than some bands in their genre I can think of. No more scoffing at Glastonbury or the tv about this lot! Here's the forthcoming concerts. Replete with garlands & nubile women floating around to an Ars Nova rhythm
5 May 2007 20:00
Carew Castle Wales
12 May 2007 19:00
The Stables, Milton Keynes Milton Keynes
23 Jun 2007 20:00
Three Wishes Fairy Festival Cornwall
29 Jun 2007 20:00
St Leonard, Shoreditch, London. London
The eye's gone. Sick of it! I can't complain about the music of the group in the picture anymore. One of them in the picture might castrate me if I did- the one that looks the fiestiest XXX
BLUE SECTION
There's a section in bluye on this thing. Some can't see it. Including me. This is what is said, I think:
Rocket science, as I have hundreds of research papers on ballistics & the like. Quantum chemistry. Can't remember. Some more things I have no idea what they were. Me as a failed journalist because my articles used to get cut down. Something else. Something about religion and philosophy. Probably something boring. Load of composers most people haven't heard of or care about. God knows what next! Probably something about tantrum throwing bad tempered director.
One evening I was telling someone why I was a complete failure; as like my father and grandfather I had aspired to be a tramp & failed miserably by studying quantum chemistry instead & having something of a minor acting career etc! Later on the train I realised how wonderful she was. However she never mentioned hedges to my recollection! This came up half through another play adaptation I was doing- & my Exit The King is far briefer than yours dear. She appeared on the radio explaining how she wanted to live in a hedge, a shared ambition I didn’t know we had.
Later she was back,” ….amputating babies limbs to take up less personal space…” Iain Lee was less impressed by her audition for a Nuremberg Rally- the crack cocaine is good in her part of town. But I’ve written such things in a couple of plays! More shared twisted thoughts & humour that I appreciated…….Scarlet Armourae? A most beautiful name! A nightmarish thought?
Last time I had an email titled RE: it wasn't the happiest one. Bad tempered girl! Which is why I haven't read the latest one yet. All I did was take them to the circus!...Wish we were working together Wish we were together X
Damn picture isn't cooperating! Anyway better things to do than argue with a machine: MARRIAGE OF FIGARO at Act Provacteur. Best opening night I've seen . An excellent cast keep this comedy fast moving including someone who shows how good she is with comedy roles XXX..
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Back onstage here in May in a very funny play. Then things get very interesting...... Act Provacteur
FAUST(very dark adaptation) & EXIT THE KING coming soon
Amoungst the news items appearing on LBC was the new Sunsilk commercial (which I'm in!) Oddly the World Service forgot to cover this. Apparently there's a few killings in Iraq which they thought should have priority!
O Mysterious One had a long shot for the casting of Abigail Williams. That looks even more unlikely now. It would have given authenticity to the play. I do miss you; I thought I had more sense! X
Film at the NFT in June
Biochemistry & Homophones
Its 11.30 on a Thursday night & I'm ploughing through biochemistry research papers (you don't know the fun your missing!) whilst trying to think how I'm going to construct sketches in to a workable play. Then I hear what sounds like a familiar voice (homophonic) speaking to Clive Bull. Can't be sure & I ain't risking getting my head bitten off. So if I heard right contact via email or phone is necessary. You may have crossed the Rubicon this far; a step more is necessary. Sorry for being so obtuse. X
SCRIPT & PLAYS
I'm producing a series of radio plays & theatre productions. Currently I'm looking for a few submissions of new works. Please comntact me if you have a new play or script that can be adapted for radio or stage
DIRECTORS
Anyone seeing this who has previous directing experience is invited to contact me to work as co-director on a couple of projects. Further details are on STAGEJOBSPRO.COM I know who I would like to see in front of me. Yes you again! X
Next week a couple of new tracks up on a site
Crimson Twilight?? No one's going to be interested in me filling this page up about enzymology, biochemistry or theoretical physics. Miss you dear. That is so irritating! X
Back on stage in May June on stage, directing, producing & something I've written. August big movie in cinemas with me briefly in it
Very, very Happy Birthday to you. Good luck with the London Marathon XXX
Catherine, very happy birhtday XXX
Some directors can't get their own way all the time, no matter how hard they stamp theie foot like a spoilt brat or try to take others down a peg or two
Having fun on a film set as a Medieval Lord. In April I'm in a commercial. It was cold and wet & I have no intention of watching it!
Anomalistic Psychology Thanks to a certain someone for enjoying the astrobiology profile & our shared research & interst in the spiritual!
Also thanks to others who have participated & feedback with previous psychology profiling. Derren Brown who's path has incidentally crossed mine & disagrees vehmently with these conclusions. We agree about the use of generalisations & appealing to the readers self concept explaining & dismissing much of profiling. However this work is more specific than the use of one generic profile being reproduced, whgich is what Derren did, to one o f my Professor's amusement & approval.
Here is the only negative aspects from the natal chart of someone I know. The rest is REALLY postive. TOO positive for my liking! Or for reproducing here! :-O
Despite everything (I know most of it) I am serious about you. Its up to you. If it doesn't work out- we can always kill eachother! Wouldn't be the first time would it?
x.x.'s Sun Square armourae's Saturn:
You each act like an authority figure with the other---and each resent and fear the other's authority. You each feel you are right. You are stoic, serious and unbending with each other. This is to cover up your fear. armourae must be very careful not to harshly criticize or judge xx. There is a strong tendency for xx to feel blocked, frustrated, and discouraged by armourae. Typically, armourae will feel surprised by xx's feelings of frustration and anger, and feel that s is just being overly sensitive to criticism. There is an element of truth to both viewpoints: armourae tends to be too critical of xx and xx tends to be too sensitive to the criticism; the combination can be disastrous! xx may try to ignore the problem, but ignoring the problem will not cause the problem to disappear. On the positive side, you are often able to work together effectively in meeting challenges and responsibilities. However, the tendency to become overly concerned with your responsibilities and be too conservative, cautious, and restrictive towards each other must not get out of hand, or you will both feel severely confined and restricted by being together.
armourae's Sun Square xx's Mars:
The sexual energies between you are very strong. Your impatience and anger with each other make you extremely competitive together. You challenge the other's need to be dominant. You each want your way and become angry when you don't get it. Each of you HAS to win. This is a dynamic, energetic relationship, but unfortunately also a rather aggressive and combative one at times. As long as you don't end up fighting and competing with each other, you can accomplish a great deal together. However, the aggressiveness of this relationship is prone to foster anger and hurt feelings -so be careful not to incite hostility in each other.
xx's Sun Square armourae's Neptune:
You each seem too good to be true to the other. You do not see each other clearly because you want to believe the dream rather than reality. You can put the other in a bubble on a pedestal to be worshipped and adored. This can leave you open to deception and disappointment.
A rising theatre company FIRST DRAFT have their monthly performances in AprilTo a certain writer. Yes I do wish I had said that. They can probably write better plays than I can. Forgot to tell you some interesting Tarot readings!
Anomalistic Psychology: Most of the time things are just coincidence; as is believed in physics- although there is debate about metaphysical ideas such as tachyons. But, the last couple of days a certain name appeared in the press. Then on Thursday, as I was busy writing a play (badly!) as a result of someone who was meant to be with me at a certain theatre on a Sunday getting lost & not turning up & so not being able to offer roles in a similar piece he is working on; a voice appears on the radio which causes mixed feelings & starts dissembling. Mixed? Schizophrenic is more apposite X
Thanks to a couple of the staff at the NME awards. & very nice meeting you, a certain someone x. Worrying when the biggest stars at the NME party were Jarvis Cocker &....me!? I'm in a tabloid somewhere!You sketch out a script do some occassional work on it set in 1930's USSR mental ward as there are massive radical shifts in Soviet society & psychiatry. Then someone produces a play about a Brighton mental Hospital in the 1950s. Claudette Flints All They Need is Love directed by Victor & Dumle starts on March 27. I'm hoping its very different from my own. Can't see how the 2 can be similar Act Provacteur for details
Soon it will be the anniversary of GOSHA VALENTINE'S eternal rest. Those who attended, I was the person who gave the eulogy. Gosha was a Polish designer based in London. Her shop became an epicentre for the various artists in the area. A free and independent spirit some would say eccentric, Gosha’s colourful personality made an impression on all who met her. When the pair of us were together working on theatre designs, art or talking philosophy and particularly Leibnitz we were able to scare people out of the shop simply by how we acted and stimulated our enthusiasms. Something we were proud of! Gosha is fondly remembered by all of us who knew her; especially Tom and her brother. No doubt she is still arguing with deceased Communist authorities and is waiting to disagree with me about Wittgenstein’s philosophy- again!
You still between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea? You've already revealed more than you intended & you know mostly my feelings. They are similar in all respects probably. X
Anomalstic Psychology. Our work maybe relocating & actually getting more done. That is all that ESP, meditation & parapsychology stuff. I've sent a short message concerning bloodstones & clairaudience to Pocahontas
Need a new agent! & preferably more than one to handle the various skills:actor, broadcaster,presenter model, voice artist.
Aphrodite! I think you're better looking than many painters depictions of the goddess. & I'm not being sarcastic. Half the family are artists, including me, so I'm surrounded by it. Patronising, untruthful, repressed, excessively formal, tantrum throwing, I accept you with your irritating faults (having more than I do)
Filming nude scenes this week fo r an arthouse film. Brazen & shameless! Then a commercial Things are progressing steadily & yet it feels unexciting at present. Nothing disruptive such as having to rush to a circus job or waiting for someone to return from overseas; & so not wanting to mess someone else around or hurt their feelings. Despite being screeched at that "I've never made a decision in my life". I have. X
If the mountain won’t come to Muhammed… Here O Mysterious One ain’t movin’. If O Mysterious One moves he might find a bad tempered volcano. If the mountain moves O Mysterious One is more likely to find a Mediterranean version of Heidi gamboling about the mountain meadows- with a temper slightly less than an exploding volcano.
Greatest Person of 2006: Most years bets are taken on who's going to die. Journalists are macabre creatures! John Paul II clungon to life like an aethist longer than expeceted. I could of given this a lot of thought, but I couldn't be bothered. The greatest is clearly a 6 year old girl who saw me with one of my directors, who is a younger woman, looked at us and saw from our appearance that I was obviously the younger of the two.Such a wise child. She's going to be a genius in the future.
"How the slave doth Latin it!":Moral aspiration as moral resignation to anothers evertere et lachrimosus is apathy and improves nothing.I can Latin it & I'm no ones slave or scream for anyone. Your evertere et lachrimosus: you should have said.Your actions showed more honesty than anything else.Soon playing the King & I haven’t been “taken down a peg or two” yet
Currently a cycle of acting, music composition & practice. Some work on scripts that are too horendous to produce. Theoretical physics, ballistics, biochemistry, maths texts & papers- my idea of fun! The odd piece of journalism. Various other things & people that aren't going to mentioned here. Much to the annoyance of the sceptics in ANOMALISTIC PSYCHOLOGY a recent test proved successful. At Wicca Moon my own work with tarot was corroborated by an excellent Reader. The one slight error being that I do prefer international travel. Without a word or any prompting from me she was able to correctly identify a nebulous matter of one of my secret questions. The reader identified accurately the past, current situation & the personalities (amusing & accurate) & past histories of the 2 people involved. Interestingly the cards appeared as showing the depth of the other person’s feelings: “Aaaaaaahh!” & what the future currently looks to be between us. “mmmmhhhmmm. Try that later & you’ll put in a cupboard & shouted at!” X
Upcoming: Stanley in "Street Car Named Desire". Couple of films, with one of them featuring me naked. The King in "Exit The King. On stage again in Febuary. In an absurdist comedy called 'Frozen'& 'Table For One': "collapse of emotional bonds between people and the failure of relationships" according to the director. A change from my usual psychopathic mass murderer, terrorist, the most evil thing ever roles. Or if its a woman director: romantic roles! Except when I was cast as Pinochet
I have not recently married. In case some people have seen it: Amoungst the various sites declaring things about me including some celebrity and others linking with gay matters via celebrity and acting-suits me I used to brighten the morning of the boys in Soho when I was working for a Soho design company! This year an error appeared once AGAIN declaring I had just got married. After a couple of days laughing it off I contacted the company to spare the person any embarrassment. The person in question is wonderful, great and lovely in so many ways.
More accurate would be stuff about journalism, all the sciences, philosophy, any religion & stuff about anti-gulf war speeches & databases I'm involoved with.
Starting work on radio recordings of Thomas Kyd's 'Spanish Tragedy', a heavily chopped 'Cherry Orchard', Macbeth, Ionoscu "Exit the King", Beckett: Waiting For Godot. Busy February!
O MYSTERIOUS ONE has had a TERRIBLE realisation & there was no stifling possible. Devil´s card does NOT say it all. Since O Mysterious One knows various books and interpretations of the card he overlooked the common agreement of interpretations: the heavier and permanent ones. No, no, no! Oops!
O Mysterious One, is too busy to attempt a portrait- probably to your relief! O Mysterious One is being quiet- delectable q. though it is.The "truly", is an exagerration. Got carried away by what happened back then.That's not the I. word thats the U. one. That's what the audience thought. Regretting that evening!
Happy belated birthday Lucy! I'm still going through that quantum teleportation book that turned out to boring with so much postgrad. maths in it!
Jaal's back performing next week. One of the best flamenco players in the country. It looks like it could be the last Tuesday I'm there Jaal as I have film work! Start doing some recording in February?
La Tasca on St Martins Lane 7.15 .
Some updates about Anomalistic Psychology I'm sending to my collegue at: Pocahontas
Right now composing the worst choral music I've heard
3 feature film contracts, play, other film work & more lining up!
3.50 am Friday 22 December. So you can't sleep either!
Working again as a reviewer and journalist.
Just completed a religious film & apparently I'm in Hello magazine & OK at some point as well as Pirate TV
I AM NOT A GIRL!
Those at South Bank University. Before I'm back there again please explain to the security that at 6ft 2 & sounding a bit like Richard Burton, it is unlikely that I can get pregnant! I'm there to work with Lucy & not 10 minutes explaining that I'm NOT LucyYou may have seen me in films or stage- though pretty unlikely! But my last movie is now in cinemas in the USAThere's some of the other things I'm involved with on and off in the blue column and those who know me, know there's a few ommissions!
Movie Database but theres a few not on there!
Casting Call Pro
some demented fan somewhere- thanks Site with other links
Street of Crocodles
Wickipedia
One of the modelling sites Presenter's page
There's a MYSPACE MUSIC SITE nothing there currently, when time permits etc etc: Music and compositionpage
Well that pretty much blows the cover! At the bottom there's more of me going on about me. I moved it there so you don't have to read it!*****************CURRENT THINGS***************** My last movie is now in USA cinemas.
Back on the London stage from October 10: The Silent Woman
This is now finished. Myself and the other actors were fortunate to work with an exceptional director Scarlett Comnas - SHE'S GREAT
Those who have avoided being deafened by my 100dB performance- I had come straight from open air theatre, should catch Scarlett's EXIT THE KING in December. !
I'll be on Pirate TV & a DVD sometime following fellow actor & great guy TERRY STONE'S book launch party. I give a load of advice to upcoming actors & answer various things. You tell me I don't remember most of what I said
Still waiting for dates on 2 TV shows
Back on the journalist work- but nothing spectacular: commentaries, religion, art reviews, current affairs- the usual!
Continuing to run the meditation, para- & anomalistic psychology course, from October
Back in the recording studio in December and actually get something done. May even have a gig as well
The feature film (in IMDB) is now on release in USA. Melissa & I attended the main premier in Leicester Square and somewhere there's some press photos & interview with me & Melissa. The main star MICHAEL BRANDON (Remember Demsey and Makepeace) was also there. Melissa has another movie (again leading actress! coming out in 2007)
Writers. Anyone who has or can write short comedy scripts which will be performed or work with me to revise or write comedy scripts are welcome.
May be filming some short pieces. Since I trained in film (& other things) I might be getting something down myself over September and October. Those in London and with EQUITY cards remember Madam JoJOs : first Sunday and Monday of the month.
more about me. If you haven't fallen asleep:OK other things then:I tell Iain Lee how to make things that shouldn't be made and James Max about Relativity and I write on just about anything too; and now can explain bits of quantum teleportation.Not all of it, I'm not omniscient or anything. Sometimes heard on LBC, BBC and TalkSport you can hear me on a few pod casts from LBC- particularly: Clive Bull, Markus Churchill adn the Psychic Show. Put into Google: Podcast LBC Radio :& you should be able to find them.
Also writes on and have been involved with counter culture such as anarchism and contacts with Church of Satan- nice ideas, but you want my money too. No! Some of the plays Armourae has written are a mess of blood letting and probably a pathological problem with authority. Either genetically or just his personality.
A very good actor I trained with, Dean, is convinced I'm of arabic descent. HE's got that partly right. A lot of Irish ancestery as my ancestors ruled much of Ireland (I'm being serious) but we lost all that from continuously fighting the English. You in Iraq, maybe if you role over the Amercian govermentwill piss off a