A smattering of new works and creative
inklings currently in development —
This Technicolor Play
Conceived and Directed by John Kurzynowski
Created and Produced by Not Quite Theatre co.
Premiering Autumn 2025
Behind the idyllic facade of the postwar American home lurks the melodramatic and flamboyant style of Douglas Sirks’ 1950s Technicolor cinema, shining an overly saturated light on the hypocrisy of outdated social norms that still dominate today’s entertainment and media. By interrogating the impact of Sirk’s 1955 melodramatic masterpiece All That Heaven Allows on contemporary artistic practices, an ensemble of secondary stock characters — the Gossiping Busybody Neighbour, the Local Prominent Businessman, the Stern Moustachioed Police Chief, the Familiar Unassuming Milkman ... and Uncle Bernie — ultimately find themselves searching for sincerity amidst the haze of these outdated norms that permeates their shared liminal space, all while activating the Technicolor tropes of Sirkian filmmaking. What they uncover is the dark underbelly of melodrama — the ugly truth hidden beneath the bright veneer of ridiculously dramatic storytelling. This postdramatic fever dream seeks to expose this underbelly and transpose the lurid worlds of Sirkian cinema to the stage.
Performers: Alex Ansdell, Lauren Lucy Cook, Dean Elliott, Emily Foxton, Harry French, Jack Gogarty, Ellie McCoy
Producing Ensemble Members: Ellie McCoy and Libby Symons
Sound Design: Alex Ansdell and John Kurzynowski
Lighting Design: Valentin Burwell
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Performers: Alex Ansdell, Lauren Lucy Cook, Dean Elliott, Emily Foxton, Harry French, Jack Gogarty, Ellie McCoy
Producing Ensemble Members: Ellie McCoy and Libby Symons
Sound Design: Alex Ansdell and John Kurzynowski
Lighting Design: Valentin Burwell
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Working with film
Filmed and Directed by John Kurzynowski
I have recently started taking courses in filmmaking through the BFI Southbank in an effort to further develop my artistic practice and work in a new artistic medium. My goal is to continue to learn more about the technical process of filmmaking in order to challenge and subvert that process in my own work as an emerging experimental filmmaker and moving image artist.
Below is a test shot filmed at the BFI Southbank that represents the type of work I’m interested in creating as I continue to interrogate the process of filmmaking:
If you are interested in learning more or would like to support the further development of my film work, please contact me.
Below is a test shot filmed at the BFI Southbank that represents the type of work I’m interested in creating as I continue to interrogate the process of filmmaking:
If you are interested in learning more or would like to support the further development of my film work, please contact me.