tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70929432919498535412024-03-18T19:34:54.342-07:00The Vile BlogTheatre and Culture from Scotland, starring The List's Theatre Editor, his performance persona and occasional guest stars. Experimental writings, cod-academic critiques and all his opinions, stolen or original.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15731978565369620342noreply@blogger.comBlogger4627125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092943291949853541.post-83516306913990992442021-09-08T02:30:00.001-07:002021-09-08T02:30:00.300-07:00 Push The Boat Out, Scotland’s second poetry festival<p> <strong style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">Push The Boat Out, Scotland’s second poetry festival, launches inaugural programme on 8 September in Edinburgh</span></span></strong></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7OzsLerHc6I/YTeqhU3UqFI/AAAAAAAAMB4/9ctWxc_UgGgaECg0k71jZvvHmWU_j-gVACLcBGAsYHQ/s1345/AlyciaPirmohamed.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1072" data-original-width="1345" height="255" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7OzsLerHc6I/YTeqhU3UqFI/AAAAAAAAMB4/9ctWxc_UgGgaECg0k71jZvvHmWU_j-gVACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/AlyciaPirmohamed.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><strong>Push The Boat Out</strong> (PTBO) Scotland’s newest and most boundary-bending poetry festival, launches its inaugural programme today, Wednesday 8 September in Edinburgh.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Taking place from the <strong>15 – 17 October 2021</strong> within the creative hub of Summerhall, <strong>Push The Boat Out </strong>will be the second poetry festival ever to be held in Scotland and its aims to do what it says on the tin, by challenging perceptions of what poetry is and how it can be enjoyed. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0nXDm1q428g/YTeqhk4skjI/AAAAAAAAMB8/ak1AsU9IuRQRNojfHQzoo0KgeU0WvuuDQCPcBGAYYCw/s2048/GerryCambridge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1539" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0nXDm1q428g/YTeqhk4skjI/AAAAAAAAMB8/ak1AsU9IuRQRNojfHQzoo0KgeU0WvuuDQCPcBGAYYCw/s320/GerryCambridge.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />Named after the poem “At Eighty” by the first Glasgow poet laureate Edwin Morgan, <strong>PTBO </strong>is inspired by the vibrancy and range of contemporary <strong>poetry, hip hop and spoken word</strong> coming out of Scotland, the UK and indeed the world. The aim of the festival is to not only give poetry a new platform, but to create an environment where all variations of this vital artform are encouraged to <strong>grow, evolve and even collide</strong>. </span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Taking place within the creative spaces of <strong>Summerhall</strong> in Edinburgh, the PTBO programme will seep into every nook and cranny of this established arts venue through multiple means, including film, imagery, song, music, dance, singing, debate and other forms of poetry performance.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Underpinning the festival are four key themes; <strong>social justice and representation</strong>; <strong>healing and recovery</strong>; <strong>climate crisis and ecopoetics</strong>; and <strong>virtual and other realities.</strong> Audiences can expect first-class performances from around <strong>60 poets</strong>, emerging and established, including the newly appointed <strong>Scots Makar Kathleen Jamie</strong>.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NbkZjPYbnKQ/YTeqhtm0rUI/AAAAAAAAMCc/L5JmqzwplBUoMShldGSsNCm9NAWQy4feQCPcBGAYYCw/s2048/Caroline%2BBird%2Bheadshot%2B2020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NbkZjPYbnKQ/YTeqhtm0rUI/AAAAAAAAMCc/L5JmqzwplBUoMShldGSsNCm9NAWQy4feQCPcBGAYYCw/s320/Caroline%2BBird%2Bheadshot%2B2020.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Other key programme highlights include performances by Scottish hip hop legend <strong>Solareye / Dave Hook</strong> of Stanley Odd, celebrated Caribbean poet<strong> Lorna Goodison, </strong>and the author the first-ever <span style="color: black;">poetry collection to win The Guardian First Book Award, </span><strong>Andrew McMillan. </strong>Joining them on the many and varied Summerhall ‘stages’ are<strong> Roseanne Watt, Hannah Lavery, Nova Scotia the Truth, Harry Josephine Giles, Ray Antrobus, Clare Pollard, Caroline Bird, Salena Godden</strong> and many more.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Another key element to the PTBO programme is <strong>the Poetry Mile initiative</strong> which, through a dedicated web app, allows users to experience Edinburgh differently, filtered through the eyes and ears of some of the country’s finest poets. Featuring over <strong>50 specifically commissioned poems from over 25 poets,</strong> all locations featured are within a square mile of Summerhall. The app generates bespoke walking tours depending on the type of experience the user requests to have.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The brainchild of director <strong>Jenny Niven</strong>, former head of literature at Creative Scotland, and co-founder <strong>Kevin Williamson</strong>, writer, publisher and founder of the Edinburgh arts events collective Neu! Reekie!, PTBO is convinced of the need for poetry more now than ever before, particularly as we emerge from lengthy lockdowns and seek new ways to express ourselves.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Kq6qWFhl6Bg/YTeqmcZIblI/AAAAAAAAMCg/hkAOYzEWwMMGYF7vjbaeYhR3_r5hoR-mwCPcBGAYYCw/s640/jennyniven.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Kq6qWFhl6Bg/YTeqmcZIblI/AAAAAAAAMCg/hkAOYzEWwMMGYF7vjbaeYhR3_r5hoR-mwCPcBGAYYCw/s320/jennyniven.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Jenny Niven, co-founder of Push The Boat Out, said:</span></strong><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"> <em>“We are so excited to be launching our inaugural Push The Boat Out programme after what has been a difficult year for everyone, not least those working within the arts.</em></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">That said, poetry is all about using language in new ways, to express new experiences, so if ever there was a time to explore this vital and vibrant art form, it is now.</span></em></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">We feel incredibly lucky to be hosting our inaugural festival in a city so full of talent, at a time when there is so much to say, and off the back of a summer festival season that saw performance take over more city spaces than ever before.</span></em></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">With performers and artists spanning the full spectrum of this spectacular artform, from classical verse to hip hop, we can’t wait for audiences to come along and enjoy.”</span></em></span></p><p></p>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092943291949853541.post-43517621305471798542021-09-07T11:31:00.002-07:002021-09-07T11:31:24.642-07:00THE CAT AND THE CANARY @ THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW MONDAY 13 - SATURDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2021<h2 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;"> </span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;"><u>BILL KENWRIGHT </u></b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;"><u>PRESENTS</u></b></div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u>THE CLASSIC THRILLER THEATRE COMPANY</u></b></div></span><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"> </span></span></u></b></div></b><b><h1 style="text-align: center;"><b><i><u><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-large;">THE CAT AND THE CANARY</span></u></i></b></h1></b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u>THE CREEPY COMEDY THRILLER BY JOHN WILLARD</u></b></div></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u>ADAPTED BY CARL GROSE</u></b></div></span><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"> </span></b></div></b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u>STARRING </u></b><b><u>ANTONY COSTA, TRACY SHAW, MARTI WEBB</u></b></div></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u>GARY WEBSTER, BEN NEALON, ERIC CARTE</u></b></div></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u>AND </u></b><b><u>BRITT EKLAND</u></b></div></span><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"> </span></span></u></b></div></b><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW</span></u></b></div></b><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">MONDAY 13 - SATURDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2021</span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></u></b></div></b></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Bill Kenwright, The Classic Thriller Theatre Company and Theatre Royal, Glasgow are pleased to welcome the creepy comedy thriller <b><i>The Cat and the Canary</i></b> next week as part of a UK tour.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">The stage adaptation of <b>John Willard’s</b> screenplay of the same name, <b><i>The Cat and the Canary</i></b> is the third show to be staged at Theatre Royal since it reopened on Sunday 5 September.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Starring silver screen and Bond-girl legend <b>Britt Ekland</b>, the chilling play is set 20 years after the death of Mr West as his descendants gather to learn who will inherit his vast wealth and the hidden family jewels. Within moments, the heritage hunters turn into prey. Walls crack open, shadows loom, and dark secrets are revealed.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MggwdzYptfg/YTevhoyppeI/AAAAAAAAMC0/mfe1t2rF8LcM05aA9nR1tgAXWALN7qtngCPcBGAsYHg/s1772/%2528L-R%2529%2BGary%2BWebster%2B%2528Harry%2529%2B%2526%2BTracy%2BShaw%2B%2528Annabelle%2529%2B-%2BThe%2BCat%2BAnd%2BThe%2BCanary%2B-%2BUK%2BTour%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BPaul%2BColtas%2B-%2B%25288119%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1181" data-original-width="1772" height="327" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MggwdzYptfg/YTevhoyppeI/AAAAAAAAMC0/mfe1t2rF8LcM05aA9nR1tgAXWALN7qtngCPcBGAsYHg/w491-h327/%2528L-R%2529%2BGary%2BWebster%2B%2528Harry%2529%2B%2526%2BTracy%2BShaw%2B%2528Annabelle%2529%2B-%2BThe%2BCat%2BAnd%2BThe%2BCanary%2B-%2BUK%2BTour%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BPaul%2BColtas%2B-%2B%25288119%2529.jpg" width="491" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Britt is perhaps best known for <i>The Man with The Golden Gun </i>with Roger Moore, <i>The Wicker Man </i>with Christopher Lee, and <i>Get Carter with Michael Caine. </i>She stars alongside singer-songw<br />riter, actor and former member of the internationally successful 00’s boy band Blue, <b>Antony Costa</b>, and <b>Tracy Shaw</b>, best known for her long-running role as Maxine Peacock in <i>Coronation Street. </i>They are joined by<i> </i>West End leading lady <b>Marti Webb</b>, whose credits include <i>Evita</i> and <i>Tell Me on A Sunday</i>; <b>Gary Webster</b>, who played Gary Costello in <i>Family Affairs</i> and Ray Daley opposite George Cole in ITV’s <i>Minder</i>; Classic Thriller Theatre Company veteran <b>Ben Nealon</b>, who played Lt. Forsythe in the drama series <i>Soldier Soldier, </i>and <b>Eric Carte</b>, who played Geoff Roberts in two series of <i>Bouquet of </i><i><span lang="EN-US">Barbed Wire</span></i><span lang="EN-US">.<span style="color: red;"> </span>The cast is completed by<b> Priyasasha Kumari</b>, <b>Martin Carroll</b>,<b> Jack Taylor </b>and<b> Clara Darcy</b>.</span><u></u><u></u></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The Cat and The Canary</i></b> is director <b>Roy Marsden</b>’s fifth Classic Thriller Theatre Company production. Other credits include the West End premieres of Agatha Christie’s <i>A Daughter’s a Daughter</i> at the Trafalgar Studios and Noël Coward’s <i>Volcano</i> at the Vaudeville Theatre. As an actor, he is well-known to television audiences as Inspector Dalgliesh in the long-running P.D. James series.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><u></u> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0p00-CF5wf8/YTevroH13RI/AAAAAAAAMC4/Qp_Z2C2joaMYJOXaN1zXx5UMxN4LrjMxACPcBGAsYHg/s1240/Tracy%2BShaw%2B%2528Annabelle%2529%2B-%2BThe%2BCat%2BAnd%2BThe%2BCanary%2B-%2BUK%2BTour%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BPaul%2BColtas%25286366%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="1240" height="310" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0p00-CF5wf8/YTevroH13RI/AAAAAAAAMC4/Qp_Z2C2joaMYJOXaN1zXx5UMxN4LrjMxACPcBGAsYHg/w466-h310/Tracy%2BShaw%2B%2528Annabelle%2529%2B-%2BThe%2BCat%2BAnd%2BThe%2BCanary%2B-%2BUK%2BTour%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BPaul%2BColtas%25286366%2529.jpg" width="466" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;">Adaptor </span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;">Carl Grose </b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;">was, until recently, co-artistic director of Kneehigh Theatre. His numerous plays and adaptations include book and lyrics for </span><i style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;">The Grinning Man</i><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;">, which Tom Morris directed at the Trafalgar Studios in 2017.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Designer <b>takis</b>’s diverse international credits include <i>In the Heights</i>, Gifford’s Circus and the Royal Opera.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Lighting Designer <b>Chris Davey</b>’s work includes <i>Witness for the Prosecution</i> at London’s County Hall and <i>Touching the Void</i> at the Duke of York’s Theatre.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b>Dan Samson</b> is resident Sound Designer for The Classic Thriller Theatre Company. West End credits include <i>Heathers </i>at the Theatre Royal Haymarket and<i> Evita </i>at the Dominion Theatre.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mw9-4zjX6vg/YTevwcqiX7I/AAAAAAAAMC8/fF0y3EbMmPsfb1hOKCiCccoGVZZST6BhACPcBGAsYHg/s1594/Britt%2BEkland%2B%2528Mrs%2BPleasant%2529%2B-%2BThe%2BCat%2BAnd%2BThe%2BCanary%2B-%2BUK%2BTour%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BPaul%2BColtas%2B%25286487%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1594" data-original-width="1063" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mw9-4zjX6vg/YTevwcqiX7I/AAAAAAAAMC8/fF0y3EbMmPsfb1hOKCiCccoGVZZST6BhACPcBGAsYHg/s320/Britt%2BEkland%2B%2528Mrs%2BPleasant%2529%2B-%2BThe%2BCat%2BAnd%2BThe%2BCanary%2B-%2BUK%2BTour%2B-%2BPhoto%2BBy%2BPaul%2BColtas%2B%25286487%2529.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092943291949853541.post-78786577612658602652021-08-30T09:55:00.000-07:002021-08-30T09:55:57.417-07:00The Enemy (NTS)<p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The National Theatre of Scotland presents</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-25781549-7fff-58eb-63d0-8f5f1a61bf5b"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pk5tld6_suk/YS0LSXx2w0I/AAAAAAAAMA0/CVQ_AnjrXz4ILUF6n65qY9EEjg3dqW4_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Finn%2Bden%2BHertog%2B-%2Bphoto%2Bcredit%2BMihaela%2BBodlovic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pk5tld6_suk/YS0LSXx2w0I/AAAAAAAAMA0/CVQ_AnjrXz4ILUF6n65qY9EEjg3dqW4_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Finn%2Bden%2BHertog%2B-%2Bphoto%2Bcredit%2BMihaela%2BBodlovic.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />The Enemy</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kieran Hurley</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> after Henrik Ibsen’s ‘</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An Enemy of the People’</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Directed by </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finn den Hertog, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">video design </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lewis den Hertog,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sound design </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matt Padden</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, original set design </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rosanna Vize</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, composer </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kathryn Joseph</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, lighting designer </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Katharine Williams</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, set and costume designer </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jen McGinley</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, co-movement directors </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vicki Manderson </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Robbie Gordon</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, assistant director </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leonie Rae Gasson</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cast:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Hannah Donaldson, Billy Mack, Neil McKinven</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Taqi Nazeer, Gabriel Quigley </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eléna</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Redmond</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Touring to </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Greenock, Dundee, Edinburgh, Inverness</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perth</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">October and November 2021</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opening performance at</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dundee Rep on Wednesday 13 October 2021</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Henrik Ibsen’s iconic play </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An Enemy of the People</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is given a contemporary Scottish re-imagining in </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8mj4oyxthe4/YS0LfDR8rII/AAAAAAAAMA4/v8SFkhpsJXsKmGmFAQHOcVdOWh3Toi0hgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Kieran%2BHurley%2B-%2Bphoto%2Bcredit%2BMihaela%2BBodlovic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8mj4oyxthe4/YS0LfDR8rII/AAAAAAAAMA4/v8SFkhpsJXsKmGmFAQHOcVdOWh3Toi0hgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Kieran%2BHurley%2B-%2Bphoto%2Bcredit%2BMihaela%2BBodlovic.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />this brand-new stage adaptation from the award-winning team of playwright <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kieran Hurley</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and director </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finn den Hertog.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a once-proud Scottish industrial town, a massive redevelopment project promises to bring money, jobs, and new prospects to its forgotten population. However, when Kirsten Stockmann discovers a dangerous secret, she knows she must bring the truth to light - no matter the cost. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This urgent, provocative new production feels increasingly relevant in 2021. Set during a public health crisis, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Enemy </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">scrutinises corruption and power amidst a changing media landscape and explores what it means to hold power to account in a post-truth political world. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Members of the original cast are reunited following the production’s delayed premiere. In this radical reworking of the classic drama the roles of Dr Stockman and his brother are played by women. The Stockmann sisters are played by </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hannah Donaldson</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gabriel Quigley</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and are joined by a leading Scottish ensemble of actors: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Billy Mack</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil McKinven, Taqi Nazeer </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eléna</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Redmond. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BTGMpoJkUsw/YS0LmV6itiI/AAAAAAAAMBA/kQSdM09gCQMEUefjnFwCCj9YzDVSd9OzACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Taqi%2BNazeer%252C%2BGabriel%2BQuigley%252C%2BHannah%2BDonaldson%2B-%2Bphoto%2Bcredit%2BMihaela%2BBodlovic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BTGMpoJkUsw/YS0LmV6itiI/AAAAAAAAMBA/kQSdM09gCQMEUefjnFwCCj9YzDVSd9OzACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Taqi%2BNazeer%252C%2BGabriel%2BQuigley%252C%2BHannah%2BDonaldson%2B-%2Bphoto%2Bcredit%2BMihaela%2BBodlovic.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Featuring a brooding original soundtrack from award-winning composer <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kathryn Joseph</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and startling live video, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Enemy</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a uniquely contemporary and Scottish take on Ibsen’s timeless work. This tour marks the first time that a version of Ibsen’s classic play has been staged in Scotland for over forty years. </span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">National Theatre of Scotland is delighted to be returning to Scotland’s live stages in autumn 2021, with the Company’s first national tour since venues were closed due to COVID-19 in 2020. The production will now tour to venues across Scotland in October and November 2021 including the Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock, Dundee Rep Theatre, King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, Eden Court Theatre, Inverness and Perth Theatre. The production</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">was in rehearsal when the pandemic halted its original tour in Spring 2020.</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jackie Wylie, Artistic Director of National Theatre of Scotland says:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We are more than thrilled to be returning to live audiences and communities across Scotland this autumn with an exciting new adaption of Ibsen’s The Enemy, adapted by the brilliant theatre-making team of writer Kieran Hurley and director Finn den Hertog. It seems entirely fitting that our first post lockdown tour is the show that was in rehearsal when COVID-19 closed Scottish theatres for over 18 months. I am both joyful and relieved that the Company is back on the road taking theatre across Scotland, connecting with theatres and audiences again and sharing the unique experience of live performance that we have missed for so long.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kieran Hurley says</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It is a real joy to be able to bring The Enemy to audiences at last, after this long hiatus. When we went into lockdown in March last year we were literally on the verge of going into rehearsals, and things have been so uncertain that there was never a guarantee we'd be back in this place. So it feels like a triumph of everyone's determination and hard work to even be here at all, bringing a new production to live audiences which is what it's all about. What's really fascinating to me though is how the pandemic has at times mirrored the world of the play, casting its conversation about a society in the grip of a public health crisis in a whole new light. What we thought was an adaption focused on quite current themes of fake news, distrust of experts, and the treacherous whirlwind of public opinion in an age of social media has now taken on a whole new contemporary relevance that we could never have predicted in a million years. It's been genuinely surreal, and testament I suppose to the enduring relevance of Ibsen's original. It's been a long uncertain wait but maybe, in all of this, the play has somehow found its moment.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kieran Hurley is an award-winning writer, performer, and theatre maker based in Glasgow. His recent work has included the stage hits </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mouthpiece</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Square Go</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and Heads Up, as well as the Scottish BAFTA-winning film </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beats</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, based on his acclaimed stage play of the same name. His previous project with the National Theatre of Scotland, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rantin</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, was presented in collaboration with The Arches, and toured Scotland in 2014. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finn den Hertog is an award-winning director and actor who has worked with theatre companies across the UK including The Traverse, The Young Vic and The National Theatre. Previous work with National Theatre of Scotland includes The Auteurs Project in 2014, as well as appearing in Abi Morgan’s play </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">27 </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in 2012. In 2018 he directed the award-winning production of Kieran Hurley and Gary McNair’s play </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Square Go</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for Francesca Moody Productions. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Join the conversation: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#TheEnemy</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Touring to Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Preview 9 October)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Dundee Rep </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Preview 12 October & 13 -16 October); </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kings Theatre, Edinburgh </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(20 - 23 October); </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eden Court, Inverness </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(27 - 30 October); </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perth Theatre </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(3 - 6 November) </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Full tour dates, booking info and social distancing guidance: nationaltheatrescotland.com</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Listing Information</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sat 9 Oct, 7.30pm </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Preview)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tickets: £8 - £10</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.beaconartscentre.co.uk" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.beaconartscentre.co.uk</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dundee Rep</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tue 12 </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Preview)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> – Sat 16 Oct, 7.30pm. Sat 16 Oct, 2.30pm</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tickets: £10 - £25</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.dundeerep.co.uk" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.dundeerep.co.uk</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Access: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15 Oct 7.30pm - </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BSL</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,16 Oct, 2.30pm - </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AD, CAP</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">King’s Theatre, Edinburgh</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wed 20 – Sat 23 Oct, 7.30pm. Sat 23 Oct, 2.30pm</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tickets: £15 - £33.50</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.capitaltheatres.com" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.capitaltheatres.com</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Access: 21 Oct, 7.30pm – </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CAP,</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">23 Oct, 2.30pm - </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AD, BSL</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eden Court, Inverness</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wed 27 – Sat 30 Oct, 7.30pm</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tickets: £10 - £25</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.eden-court.co.uk" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.eden-court.co.uk</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Access: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">29 Oct, 7.30pm –</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CAP,</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">30 Oct, 7.30pm -</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AD, BSL</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perth Theatre</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wed 3 – Sat 6 Nov, 7.30pm. Sat 6 Nov, 2.30pm</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tickets: £11 - £27</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.horsecross.co.uk" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.horsecross.co.uk</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Access: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5 Nov, 7.30pm -</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AD, CAP,</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6 Nov, 2.30pm –</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> BSL</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Age Guidance, 16+</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Theatre for a Fiver</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - £5 ticket deals and discount codes for 16 - 26 year olds. Full info </span><a href="https://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/about/what-we-do/theatre-for-a-fiver/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a></p><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092943291949853541.post-49188038606109987432021-08-30T09:40:00.000-07:002021-08-30T09:40:32.079-07:00The Edinburgh Playhouse is set to reopen its doors to a full capacity audience.<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <u style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;">It’s time.</u></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-align: left;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It is with great excitement that the <strong>Edinburgh Playhouse</strong>, the <strong>UK’s largest all seated theatre</strong>, announces its eagerly awaited reopening date after more than 500 days of closure due to the coronavirus restrictions.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Following the Scottish Government’s announcement [on Tuesday 3rd August], removing all legal restrictions for venues and the capacity dispensation granted by the Edinburgh City Council [on Thursday 19th August], the Edinburgh Playhouse will open its doors on Sunday 5th<sup> </sup>September 2021 with two sold out performances.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><strong>Colin Marr, Theatre Director at the Edinburgh Playhouse</strong> said “I am absolutely thrilled to be able to reopen our theatre doors after more than 500 days of closure. It has been a very difficult time for everyone and to be given the go ahead to reopen this iconic venue, is an incredible feeling. I can’t wait to welcome back my full team, our wonderful audience members and the incredible gigs, comedians and musicals that we’ve all missed so much this last year and a half.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Playhouse will open on <strong>Sunday 5th September</strong> with two sold out performances of the smash hit podcast <strong>Shagged, Married, Annoyed with Chris & Rosie Ramsey</strong>. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This will be followed by the award-winning <strong>Dolly Parton musical 9 to 5</strong>, which opens with our <strong>Gala performance on Tuesday 14</strong><sup><strong>th</strong></sup><strong> September. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Chicago the Musical, Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited</strong> and <strong>Gary Mullen & The Works performing One Night of Queen, Riverdance – 25</strong><sup><strong>th</strong></sup><strong> Anniversary Tour and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast </strong>are just some of the highlights to look forward to in the coming weeks. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The 3059 capacity venue was in the middle of a 25 week record-breaking run of Disney’s The Lion King, when it closed its doors on Monday 16th March 2020 following Government guidance aimed to limit the spread of Covid-19, before a mandatory closure notice was given by the Scottish and UK Governments on Monday 23rd March 2020 as part of a nationwide lockdown. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Upon reopening on Sunday 5th September, the Playhouse will have been closed <strong>536 days</strong>. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Edinburgh Playhouse is part of Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG), a leading live entertainment company with venues across the globe.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #222222;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 9pt; padding-right: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Image" class="CToWUd" height="65" src="https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/gP5kUAnY_xvvYvRSsufVO0ReXXf-t8SmUH4sf1AFT7sm61qd2SOYDY_dTnCVeOKdH8wDIm7gCJAp0SstsTbFJGA6a40kCRo8kuLfNpuca6L4DHCrwrzG_woc27bp1ucDesnW-OfdPivSv5BfanketF-gqVrbR4X7R_LBO3WL=s0-d-e1-ft#https://eu.vocuspr.com/Publish/3874228/vcsPRAsset_3874228_269626_f6c85eca-6760-41c2-8669-8506664eb6a2_0.png" width="116" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ambassador Theatre Group has a comprehensive framework of control measures that Theatre Operators follow to ensure all venues comply with the requirements set out by UK and Scottish Governments and Health Authorities to be Covid-Secure, thus ensuring the safety of staff, production companies, third parties and audiences.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Once audiences have purchased tickets, they will be contacted just ahead of their visit to confirm the details of what they can expect, so that they can be confident that venues will be operating in accordance with the most up-to-date guidelines (including mandatory face coverings in Scotland, eTickets, the option of refreshments delivered to seats, contactless payments and hand sanitiser stations).</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In addition to Scottish Government and sector guidance (and in line with Ambassador Theatre Group venues UK-wide) we are also asking audiences for proof of Covid status (over the age of 18, full vaccination or negative test within 48 hours) and have introduced additional safety measures at the Edinburgh Playhouse including staggered arrival times and designated entry points.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><u><strong><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">CONTACTLESS TICKETS INFORMATION</span></strong></u></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ambassador Theatre Group venues are now operating a contactless ticketing system. eTickets are now the primary and default delivery method for all bookings and are sent to customers within two weeks of their selected performance’s date. The design allows ATG to detail door entry points, staggered entry times and any Covid safety guidelines as appropriate. Audiences simply show the eTicket on their mobile device, or bring along a print out. This change is a necessary step in increasing safety and hygiene and improving the overall booking experience in ATG’s venues.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><strong><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><u><strong><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">REOPENING SHOW INFORMATION</span></strong></u></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">SUN 5 SEP: 3pm & 8pm: Shagged, Married, Annoyed Podcast with Chris & Rosie Ramsey</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">TUE 14 - SAT 18 SEP: 9 to 5 the Musical</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">SUN 19 SEP: One Night of Queen - Performed by Gary Mullen & The Works</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">MON 20 SEP: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">SAT 25 SEP: Steve Hackett Genesis Revisited - Seconds Out & More</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">MON 27 SEP - SAT 2 OCT: Chicago the Musical</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">TUE 5 & 6 OCT: Riverdance – 25<sup>th</sup> Anniversary Tour</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">TUE 12 OCT – SAT 16 OCT – Blood Brothers</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.04px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; 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color: #222222; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4RW3XwN-rdY/YSyluSmnLCI/AAAAAAAAMAk/CNS-B3NfVBwKGFApfHnptRW6z8WVZJLzQCLcBGAsYHQ/s815/unnamed%2B%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="815" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4RW3XwN-rdY/YSyluSmnLCI/AAAAAAAAMAk/CNS-B3NfVBwKGFApfHnptRW6z8WVZJLzQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/unnamed%2B%25281%2529.png" width="236" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Maltings Theatre, which this year celebrates its 10<sup>th</sup> anniversary under the Artistic Directorship of Adam Nichols and his company <a href="http://www.ovo.org.uk" target="_blank">OVO</a>, opens its 2021 autumn season on <b>September 7<sup>th</sup></b> with a rousing programme of drama, comedy, opera, live music and song. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Strong female leads power OVO’s own productions: <b><i>Vinegar Tom, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, </i></b>and <b><i>Hedda Gabler </i></b>while Dyad Productions opens the autumn season on <b>September 7<sup>th</sup></b> with the one-woman show, <b><i>A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN, </i></b>based on Virginia Woolf’s classic 1928 and performed by the actor, writer, producer <b>Rebecca Vaughan.<u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u></u></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u></u><b>September 21<sup>st</sup>-24<sup>th</sup></b> sees Charles Court Opera present Gilbert & Sullivan’s evergreen comic opera <b><i>THE MIKADO. <u></u><u></u></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img align="left" alt="Fake News" class="CToWUd" data-image-whitelisted="" height="143" hspace="12" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=e2f531c0d0&attid=0.0.12&permmsgid=msg-f:1709230409327790971&th=17b868005b474b7b&view=fimg&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ8uex6kcIvr4Krp2zkMG53XUEQ6qUog_syTFi1ZvacGi6Rfa9Rh5__yK_ki3xIs8Xy_C2p4dKvXbNwhz0A7EvDtqxt9Bvhvaz7yf2TTwWgfZCUjLCFia1FY_Jc&disp=emb" width="194" /><b><i><br /></i>September 30<sup>th</sup>-October 2<sup>nd</sup></b> journalist turned writer/performer Osman Baig (<i>photo left: Tristram Kenton</i>) stages his dazzling, critically acclaimed, one-man show, <b><i>FAKE NEWS</i>.</b> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /><b>October 12<sup>th</sup>-23<sup>rd</sup></b> OVO presents a re-mixed, musical version of Christopher Hampton’s classic social drama <b><i>LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES </i></b>and from <b>October 28<sup>th</sup> to November 6<sup>th</sup></b> award-winning director Matthew Parker presents OVO’s production of Caryl Churchill’s searing drama, <b><i>VINEGAR TOM</i></b>. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Closing the autumn season is OVO’s new production of Henrik Ibsen’s classic drama <b>HEDDA GABLER</b> which runs from <b>November 16<sup>th</sup>-27<sup>th</sup></b>, directed by OVO’s Associate Director Janet Podd.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u></u></span><img align="left" class="CToWUd" data-image-whitelisted="" height="313" hspace="12" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=e2f531c0d0&attid=0.0.13&permmsgid=msg-f:1709230409327790971&th=17b868005b474b7b&view=fimg&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ_vtYTZynUITuopE0mPBuId4ntuNChFrK0VyCnaT3nCeIM9GzupJzD0YR_x8rJBgzo0cpLpiI1KVmNgTlp33S6dSn0CT9LohJuohFg9_P7LkoshQU8lX7X9a8U&disp=emb" width="284" /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u></u><b>Adam Nichols,</b> OVO Artistic Director says: “We’re so excited about this autumn’s programme with its wide variety of productions and emphasis on strong female protaganists. I’m extremely proud to be presenting Osman Baig’s outstanding one-man show, <i>Fake News,</i> hot on the heels of its run at the Bridge Theatre in London and <i>A Room of One’s Own</i> whose run we had to cancel last year due to the pandemic. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">“I’ll be directing<i> Les Liaisons Dangereuses </i>and I’m delighted Charles Court Opera continue their association with us by bringing their very funny production of <i>The Mikado</i> to The Maltings stage. Matthew Parker will bring Caryl Churchill’s blistering <i>Vinegar Tom</i> to life and I can’t wait to see what Janet Podd does with <i>Hedda Gabler,</i> one of my favourite dramas.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-amkk_1SiZ0k/YSyl4XkKEmI/AAAAAAAAMAo/MdujonsuSEwRwIi0YmesyfXHkNCMUsU9gCLcBGAsYHQ/s604/unnamed%2B%25282%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="604" height="102" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-amkk_1SiZ0k/YSyl4XkKEmI/AAAAAAAAMAo/MdujonsuSEwRwIi0YmesyfXHkNCMUsU9gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/unnamed%2B%25282%2529.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">“We recently completed seven weeks of drama, music, opera, and comedy at The Roman Theatre Open Air Festival where we more than doubled our audience from last year. We then took our Roman Theatre production of The Winter’s Tale to the fabulous Minack Theatre in Cornwall for ten days in July.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">“We continued to manage rules and regulations during the first part of this year with the presentation of theatrical treasures in Hertfordshire, Cornwall and online. And now we’re looking forward to welcoming capacity audiences to the Maltings Theatre from September 7<sup>th</sup> onwards for our exciting autumn season.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092943291949853541.post-41283004323483145832021-08-29T10:10:00.003-07:002021-08-29T10:10:24.099-07:00Myra’s Story Wins a Bobby Award <p> <span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Today (Sunday 29 August)<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;">Myra’s Story</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;">,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>the 5-star sell-out show at this year’s Edinburgh</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> Festival</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> Fringe, was presented with the<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;">highly-prized</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Bobby Award at the end of its final performance.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"> </span></p><div style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><p style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"> </span></p></div><div style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><p style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">In front of a full-house in the Palais de<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;">Vari</span><span style="margin: 0px;">é</span><span style="margin: 0px;">t</span><span style="margin: 0px;">é</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;">spiegeltent</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>in Assembly George Square Gardens, writer and director Brian Foster, award-winning actor<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;">Fíonna</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Hewitt-Twamley, and Assembly Festival’s Artistic Director</span><span style="margin: 0px;">,</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>William Burdett-Coutts</span><span style="margin: 0px;">,</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>received their ‘Bobby’ - Broadway Baby’s top award for outstanding performance at this year’s Festival Fringe. </span></span></p><p style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uuy1xuSuDHU/YSu_TkMd78I/AAAAAAAAMAU/PbjksKbH4OY5FLNSU4Hj12K_sJ7q0w51ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/myra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1803" data-original-width="2048" height="282" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uuy1xuSuDHU/YSu_TkMd78I/AAAAAAAAMAU/PbjksKbH4OY5FLNSU4Hj12K_sJ7q0w51ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/myra.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="clear: both; margin: 0px;"><p style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">L/R Richard Beck, Brian Foster, </span><span style="margin: 0px;">F</span><span style="margin: 0px;">í</span><span style="margin: 0px;">onna</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Hewitt-Twamley, William Burdett-Coutts</span></span></p></div><div style="clear: both; margin: 0px;"><p style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">The<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;">Bobby Award, fashioned<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;">after</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>the iconic Greyfriars Bobby statue, is awarded to the best of the best</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>at the Fringe</span><span style="margin: 0px;">, those shows that<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;">shine brightest<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;">amongst all the festival’s<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;">5</span><span style="margin: 0px;">-star shows. This year Broadway Baby have awarded just three Bobbys to 5-star shows at the Edinburgh Fringe.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"> </span></p></div><div style="clear: both; margin: 0px;"><p style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"> </span></p></div><div style="clear: both; margin: 0px;"><p style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;">Richard Beck Editor of Broadway Baby said:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"> </span></p></div><div style="clear: both; margin: 0px;"><p style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;">“We are delighted to make this award to Myra’s Story this year. There is no single criterion that makes a show Bobby-worthy, it is a combination of things that have simply blown us away and Myra’s Story is an outstanding piece of theatre.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"> </span></p></div><div style="clear: both; margin: 0px;"><p style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"> </span></p></div><div style="clear: both; margin: 0px;"><p style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;">Brian Foster, writer and director of Myra’s Story added</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">“We</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>are thrilled to receive this award. Myra’s story is a mix of hilarity and<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;">heartbreak</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and it has been amazing to be back on stage performing live to<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;">full-houses</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>at the festival this year. We have plans to tour Myra’s Story next year so we hope that as more venues open, more people will get the opportunity to see this fantastic show.”</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"> </span></p></div><div style="clear: both; margin: 0px;"><p style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"> </span></p></div><p style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"></span></span></p><div style="clear: both; margin: 0px;"><p style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Myra’s Story is about a middle-aged, homeless<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;">Dublin street</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>drinker played by<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Fionna<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;">Hewitt-Twamley<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">who is funny, feisty, and foul-mouthed. She begs from passers-by for her<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;">drink money</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and recreates her hilarious, harrowing, and ultimately heart-breaking backstory. A story that takes her from fresh faced teenage bride with a baby son and all to live for, to the tragic condition she finds herself in today. Audiences laugh and cry, often at the same time, as Myra sweeps them along on a real rollercoaster-of-emotions ride. Playing all the characters, acting out all the incredible events that have led her to alcoholism and destitution, hers is the face we habitually turn our head away from and pretend not to see. In the play, Myra never wallows in self-pity. Never cries. After so many often brutal years spent fighting just to exist on the streets of Dublin, Myra has no tears left to shed</span></p></div></div>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092943291949853541.post-6068972748786890622021-08-13T08:46:00.002-07:002021-08-13T08:46:25.842-07:00From the Snug, Episode 3<p> </p><iframe width="100%" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&feed=%2Fgarethkvile%2Fvile-at-the-fringe-from-the-snug-episode-3%2F" frameborder="0" ></iframe>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092943291949853541.post-38465463883902004422021-08-13T07:45:00.003-07:002021-08-13T07:46:41.075-07:00Pitlochry Festival Theatre to thank NHS workers with free tickets to Alice in Wonderland World<p> <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">Pitlochry Festival Theatre to thank NHS workers with free tickets to Alice in Wonderland World</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> As a small thank you for all their amazing work over the last 18 months, Pitlochry Festival Theatre are offering all NHS workers up to 4 free tickets to <i>Alice in Wonderland World</i>, the theatre’s exciting new interactive, visual, and bilingual sound, walk-through adventure.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W8DiSOgRw2s/YRaFteeHFwI/AAAAAAAAL_Q/YOLCvw6-BFoBFKvqKor3oSOkucyMl9gFQCPcBGAsYHg/s1600/Alice%2Bin%2BWonerland%2BWorld%2B-%2BPitlochry%2BFestival%2BTheatre%2Band%2BF%25C3%25A8is%2BThatha%2B3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1326" data-original-width="1600" height="530" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W8DiSOgRw2s/YRaFteeHFwI/AAAAAAAAL_Q/YOLCvw6-BFoBFKvqKor3oSOkucyMl9gFQCPcBGAsYHg/w640-h530/Alice%2Bin%2BWonerland%2BWorld%2B-%2BPitlochry%2BFestival%2BTheatre%2Band%2BF%25C3%25A8is%2BThatha%2B3.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: black;">Amy Liptrott</span></b><span style="color: black;">, Associate Director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre said:</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">“</span></span><i style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"> To all the amazing NHS workers<span class="gmail_default">, w</span>e would love to invite you and your families to enjoy the wonderful Alice in Wonderland World interactive experience in our beautiful gardens in Pitlochry as a small but heartfelt thank you for all your amazing work.”</i> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">Alice’s adventures are brought to life in Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s beautiful Explorers' Garden where visitors can become one of the many brilliant characters she meets! Alice can’t find the White Rabbit, and we can’t find the Cheshire Cat – can you help? Journey along the Playing Card Path, through the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, play a Gigantic Game of Chess in the Red Queen’s pillared Garden, see the White Queen’s Palace appearing amongst the trees, meet the giant cuddly Caterpillar and join the search for the Cheshire Cat! Visitors will hear actors telling the story in English and Gaelic on audio through new beacon technology on their own device, along with the visual delights, and they will get a handout map to set them on their magical journey through <i>Alice in Wonderland World</i>.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">As well as the App, ticket bookers can download from the theatre’s website a booklet as part of the theatre’s <i>Build</i> <i>Your Own Theatre</i> series, which will share tips on how you can make easy costumes and dress up to make your visit to the garden even more memorable. This is also in Gaelic and English.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> <i>Alice in Wonderland World</i> runs until 12 September from Thursdays-Sundays between 12-5pm. Last entry is at 4pm.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: rgb(254, 254, 254); color: black;">NHS <i>Alice in Wonderland World</i> tickets are available by calling the Pitlochry Festival Theatre box office on</span><span style="color: black;"> <b>01796 484626</b><span style="background: rgb(254, 254, 254);">.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bCs8yNIEuuw/YRaFycRZiII/AAAAAAAAL_U/FE_LsEEsoi0RJmYdLyTOMBmCjBpTUkPcwCPcBGAsYHg/s1600/Alice%2Bin%2BWonerland%2BWorld%2B-%2BPitlochry%2BFestival%2BTheatre%2Band%2BF%25C3%25A8is%2BThatha%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bCs8yNIEuuw/YRaFycRZiII/AAAAAAAAL_U/FE_LsEEsoi0RJmYdLyTOMBmCjBpTUkPcwCPcBGAsYHg/w640-h480/Alice%2Bin%2BWonerland%2BWorld%2B-%2BPitlochry%2BFestival%2BTheatre%2Band%2BF%25C3%25A8is%2BThatha%2B2.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><br /><span style="background: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><br /></span></span></span><p></p>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092943291949853541.post-26589473774021031602021-08-13T05:49:00.002-07:002021-08-13T05:49:42.654-07:00Kill Dramaturgy Now<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Kill Me Now</i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is a digital, dramatic experience performed as a real life live Zoom webinar written by award winning playwright Rhiannon Boyle. This funny, heart wrenching one woman play, developed in lockdown specifically for a virtual audience, explores a new form taking live performance to a place we have never EVER been before. An innovative, hilarious yet poignant production which will be presented in collaboration with critically acclaimed Welsh new writing theatre company Dirty Protest.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9NQXm3uYZXw/YRZqEr9cZ9I/AAAAAAAAL-0/JY3QV7DEt8AuTIgI0guDMvyad800OmIiACPcBGAsYHg/s2000/Kill%2BMe%2BNow.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9NQXm3uYZXw/YRZqEr9cZ9I/AAAAAAAAL-0/JY3QV7DEt8AuTIgI0guDMvyad800OmIiACPcBGAsYHg/w640-h640/Kill%2BMe%2BNow.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And for the first predictable question: what was the inspiration for your show?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The story and the themes of the play lie very close to my heart as someone who lost my father after years of him suffering with the long term degenerative disease MS. I wanted to write a play about losing my Dad but because I have a very dark sense of humour, I wanted it to be funny. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My producers, Dirty Protest, and I spoke about the main character maybe giving a TED talk or being an expert in the one thing she has no idea how to deal with – her grief. That’s why I decided to make her an undertaker who is selling the franchise model of her business Joyful Endings Funerals, which is basically end-of-life celebrations that are more ‘fun’ than funeral.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">How far does it fit within your usual work, and do you have a particular dramaturgical approach to creating a production?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I like dark comedy and so I suppose all my writing explores heavy themes in way that always find the light and humour. When I create I usually start by exploring the thing that I want to say. What’s the argument? What’s the issue? What’s the thing that’s made me angry or sad? I then do lots of work on the characters writing pages and pages on their past, personality traits, their hopes and fears. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When I’ve done all that I get to the story. My mantra is - spew then sculpt. I get it all out onto the page and then I’ll go back and look at how it fits into the Five Act Structure. Where is the inciting incident? Midpoint? Climax? What’s the character’s journey and how do they change? After all that it’s time to hand it over and get an outside opinion; a dramaturg or a director who I can really trust to help me develop it further.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Do you see your work within any particular tradition?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Not really. I write for TV, radio, theatre and now online. I like mixing it up and practicing different disciplines for different mediums and platforms.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">What are you hoping that the audience will experience?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The play is a comedy set in covid times and will offer audiences some much needed fun and relief. The play deals with the themes of grief and so we will reach out and connect with audiences and communities experiencing grief at this time - whether that be grieving loved ones, grieving theatrical experiences or grieving our old lives. We are living in a time where we are all collectively grieving and connecting with others and making sense of it all whilst finding the light and humour can be a very powerful healing process.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">How have you found the challenge of creating a production online? Has it been positive or negative and have there been any surprises?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s been brilliant fun. We tested the show out on a live audience and they absolutely loved it! I think because we’ve purposefully written this play for Zoom as a live Zoom webinar using all its interactive features it just really works. This is NOT online theatre. It’s a dramatic, digital, interactive experience and we can’t wait to share it with new audiences.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">I have always asked about the role of theatre in public debate, but this now seems even more relevant. In the current landscape, what does theatre or performance have to give to the public sphere?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hope. Connection. If we’ve learned anything during this pandemic it’s that everything around us – economies, services, industries and infrastructures – are so fragile. When everything ground to a halt and ceased, for me, it was connection to other human beings that kept me going. Love, compassion, kindness and trying to make sense of it all together.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092943291949853541.post-13345516624396675472021-08-13T05:44:00.003-07:002021-08-13T05:44:41.452-07:00Dramaturgy 9<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #833c0b; font-size: 24pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Screen 9 </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.5332214832305908; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.8353271484375pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #833c0b; font-size: 15.96pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pleasance @ EICC (Lomond), 150 Morrison Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8EE </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #833c0b; font-size: 14.04pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tuesday 10</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #833c0b; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #833c0b; font-size: 14.04pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Sunday 29</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #833c0b; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #833c0b; font-size: 14.04pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">August 2021 (not 16</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #833c0b; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #833c0b; font-size: 14.04pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 23</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #833c0b; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">rd</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #833c0b; font-size: 14.04pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.5827005863189696; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 11.86285400390625pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the Colorado premiere of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Dark Knight Rises</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, gun violence turned a celebration of cinema to tragedy. Devastated by one man’s actions, a community refused to be torn apart. This hard </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 1.12225341796875pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">hitting verbatim piece follows the survivors’ remarkable testimonies of the infamous Batman </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.936187744140625pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Shootings, as they attempted to respond and recover from the tragedy. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.936187744140625pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jElZKZHk5oE/YRZo4XZ1fuI/AAAAAAAAL-U/vufvUolcaQoYAIRqODg6WwmbNZifGANUgCPcBGAsYHg/s1920/IMAGE%2B4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="366" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jElZKZHk5oE/YRZo4XZ1fuI/AAAAAAAAL-U/vufvUolcaQoYAIRqODg6WwmbNZifGANUgCPcBGAsYHg/w640-h366/IMAGE%2B4.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 23.036163330078125pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Bold new company Piccolo Theatre - this year’s recipient of the Pleasance’s Charlie Hartill </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.79620361328125pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Theatre Reserve - are striving to create cutting-edge and thought-provoking theatre. Exploring </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.796173095703125pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the life-altering impact of a mass shooting, their first production </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Screen 9 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">reclaims the story of </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.79620361328125pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the survivors to interrogate the debate around gun violence. It explores how such a horrific </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.796173095703125pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">event could take place at a beloved institution like a cinema and looks at our relationship with </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.796173095703125pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">watching movies. As we approach the ten year anniversary of the massacre, Piccolo Theatre </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.5853064060211182; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.796173095703125pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">have spoken with those connected to the shootings and spent time spent in America, in order to gain a much greater understanding of American culture and the gun crisis. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 19.33721923828125pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Screen 9 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">brings to life four fictional characters based on real people and their very real </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.7961578369140625pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">experiences: a parent; a survivor who is also a first responder; a woman who watched her </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.9161529541015625pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">boyfriend die; and someone who simply came to a movie with life-altering consequences.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.796142578125pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is their story and every line </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">comes from an actual survivor’s words, whether in testimony,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.796173095703125pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">news accounts, social media or conversation. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The production does not seek to glorify violence, </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.796142578125pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">but instead focuses sensitively on a tragedy that could have been prevented and how the </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.8161468505859375pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">individuals respond and create a community. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 23.036163330078125pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Writer and director Kate Barton comments:<br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 23.036163330078125pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a time where so much press attention is on the </span><span style="font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">politics, violence and devastation, this show is taking some time out to focus on the very real </span><span style="font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: italic; text-indent: -0.391678pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">people affected the most by mass shootings in America. It’s a story of survival, community and hope in the wake of unimaginable tragedy in a place you would usually consider safe. This is an exciting debut for Piccolo and we can’t wait to share their stories with Edinburgh and the world. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72.99275207519531pt; margin-top: 15.22393798828125pt;"><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And for the first predictable question: what was the inspiration for your show?</b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went to the Cinema in Huddersfield the day the film opened in the UK, and I couldn’t believe that across the world something so awful had happened in a place I love. Aurora is a typical case where all of the media attention was on the shooter with their face being splashed across the TV. I knew I that there was something much more important that I wanted to share about the lives of the survivors and what happened after the media had left.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6kRuDgnWCXI/YRZpCdWoBTI/AAAAAAAAL-c/VYK5NAUz-dk7DLzFLWbwzo8LayTtfcbqwCPcBGAsYHg/s1967/Kate%2BBarton%2BColour%252C%2BCredit%2BKate%2BBarton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1967" data-original-width="1799" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6kRuDgnWCXI/YRZpCdWoBTI/AAAAAAAAL-c/VYK5NAUz-dk7DLzFLWbwzo8LayTtfcbqwCPcBGAsYHg/w366-h400/Kate%2BBarton%2BColour%252C%2BCredit%2BKate%2BBarton.jpg" width="366" /></a></div>I think living through an event as tragic as this mass shooting is something that a lot of people around the world can’t comprehend. I certainly couldn’t! How could a space I love like the cinema suddenly be one of fear and death? But that is the reality for Americans right now and it is something I wanted to highlight. We as Europeans are getting so used to it happening across the Atlantic that a shooting which took place ONLY TWO WEEKS ago in a cinema in California, where people died, didn’t even make BBC homepage news…</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How far does it fit within your usual work, and do you have a particular dramaturgical approach to creating a production?</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well…. this is my first script so I’m still working out what my usual work will be …</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I often say that I didn’t write this script – I researched and dramaturgically compiled it. It’s very much a collage of sorts. There is no one source I spoke to or took information from. Blogs, interviews, news coverage, documentaries – anything in the public domain or text from anyone who had spoken to me directly was taken as direct quotes and compiled together into four character sketches, anonymising details into amalgamated characters. It’s all made from their words and not mine.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you see your work within any particular tradition?</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would say this pieces falls within the verbatim and slightly immersive tradition. To be honest when I set about writing, devising and staging it, I thought of the script and staging as whatever would best suit the story and would generate as much empathy from the audience and truth from the situation as possible. When handling real stories and real words, you have to be so careful about how they come across, and so I wanted to present them with the care and respect they deserve.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />What are you hoping that the audience will experience?</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Empathy and compassion for those who lived and continue to live through the effects of such a tragic event on their lives. As well as greater international understanding of the wider conversation around gun control in America.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What made you decide to come to the fringe this year?</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are the 2021 recipients of the Charlie Hartill Theatre Reserve and so are very fortunate to be supported by the Pleasance who have been instrumental in our development as an emerging company. Offering feedback, rehearsal space, advice and mentorship – we are so grateful for their continued encouragement and support.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year also marks the 9th anniversary of the massacre, something we touch upon in the play. It feels important and right to look to tour it in 2022 with the view to share this story with a national and maybe even an international audience.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have always asked about the role of theatre in public debate, but this now seems even more relevant. In the current landscape, what does theatre or performance have to give to the public sphere?<br /></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ooooohhh – that is a great question. I think because theatre is inherently live, it is a place where you can communicate and engage with people in a really personal way – not through a screen. In the last year we’ve endured everything being forced to go digital. I think that has allowed further polarisation of opinion and a rise of the radical right. Live performance is an interesting way of capturing conversation. In our case, it’s a way of humanising individuals who you may disagree with - but through discussion, can move us all together to a more collaborative community and conversation.</span></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72.9928pt; margin-top: 15.2239pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Title </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Screen 9 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72.9917pt; margin-top: 23.0362pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Performance Dates Tuesday 10</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.6pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– 29</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.6pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">August (not 16</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.6pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 23</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.6pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">rd</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 180.999pt; margin-top: 4.79614pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.6pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- 15</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.6pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">August, 24</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.6pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– 29</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.6pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">August – 20:40 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 180.999pt; margin-top: 4.79614pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">17</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.6pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– 22</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.6pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">nd </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">August – 14:30 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 180.665pt; margin-top: 4.7912pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">22</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.6pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">nd </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">August – captioned performance </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72.9917pt; margin-top: 23.0361pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Running Time 55 minutes </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72.9917pt; margin-top: 23.1562pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Location Pleasance @ EICC (Lomond), 150 Morrison Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8EE </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72.9917pt; margin-top: 23.0362pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Katy Sabrina Wu </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72.9917pt; margin-top: 4.7962pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mary Hannah Schunk-Hockings </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72.0586pt; margin-top: 4.81616pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jonny George Rexstrew </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72.2198pt; margin-top: 4.7962pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alex David Austin-Barnes </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72.3696pt; margin-top: 23.0362pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Writer/Director Kate Barton </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72.2198pt; margin-top: 4.79617pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Assistant Director Jennifer Baker </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72.9917pt; margin-top: 4.7962pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Designer Matthew Jennings </span></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-e6ad98e1-7fff-13a5-bff3-11f803198f2d"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72.2198pt; margin-top: 4.79617pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Accent Coach/Voice over Madeline Edwards </span></p></div>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092943291949853541.post-5871881174410253762021-08-13T05:38:00.002-07:002021-08-13T05:38:28.938-07:00Pushing Dramaturgy<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #ed7d31; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">PUSH </span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 1.78204345703125pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ed7d31; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.039999961853026pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Pleasance Festival Online </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0.65533447265625pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ed7d31; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.039999961853026pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Friday 6</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ed7d31; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ed7d31; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.039999961853026pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">August – Monday 30</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ed7d31; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ed7d31; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.039999961853026pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">August 2021 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.582699155807495; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.168121337890625pt; margin-right: 0.18170166015625pt; margin-top: 19.13531494140625pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.31104278564453125pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.31104278564453125pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.520000457763672pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">A hell of a lot can happen in the time you await the results of a pregnancy test. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.520000457763672pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">PUSH </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.520000457763672pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">is the story of a woman staring down the barrel of motherhood, torn between her own ambivalence and an uncontrollable urge to push. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.5830486297607422; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.1566009521484375pt; margin-right: -0.0926513671875pt; margin-top: 19.362274169921875pt; text-indent: 0.0115203857421875pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.520000457763672pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Award-winning Popelei have burst out of isolation and onto our screens with their darkly comic theatre production, reimagined for film after its preview at VAULT Festival 2020. Fusing theatre, movement and dance the company have embraced this new medium, collaborating with cinematographer Jack Offord. With blistering honesty, exhilarating choreography, and one extremely knocked-up performer this </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.520000457763672pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">is an engaging, expressive performance...a show that captures the blizzard of feelings parents have for their as-yet-unborn children </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.520000457763672pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">(The Guardian). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.5830486297607422; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.1566009521484375pt; margin-right: -0.0926513671875pt; margin-top: 19.362274169921875pt; text-indent: 0.0115203857421875pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.520000457763672pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bfk5C1rdLCE/YRZnkbyonBI/AAAAAAAAL9s/c_vJwTJmzuMtoGbOeS20m0cgJrVd78DAwCPcBGAsYHg/s4213/Push%252C%2BPopelei%252C%2Bcourtesy%2Bof%2BThe%2BOther%2BRichard%2B%25282%2529%2B-%2BCopy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2369" data-original-width="4213" height="263" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bfk5C1rdLCE/YRZnkbyonBI/AAAAAAAAL9s/c_vJwTJmzuMtoGbOeS20m0cgJrVd78DAwCPcBGAsYHg/w468-h263/Push%252C%2BPopelei%252C%2Bcourtesy%2Bof%2BThe%2BOther%2BRichard%2B%25282%2529%2B-%2BCopy.JPG" width="468" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.5848703861236573; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.1566009521484375pt; margin-right: -0.32000732421875pt; margin-top: 19.358917236328125pt; text-indent: 0.27648162841796875pt;"><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">And for the first predictable question: what was the inspiration for your show?</b></span></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b><i>PUSH</i> kind of snuck up on us. Our 2019 show, <i>100 Years</i>, explored maternal lineage across a century of history and two continents. We were in the rehearsal room, thinking about taking <i>100 Years</i> further, when we found ourselves asking - what happens if we let go of this epic lens and instead look at a much more condensed moment of motherhood? So with <i>PUSH</i> we’re at the complete other end of the spectrum, exploring just three minutes in time as one woman awaits the results of her pregnancy test.<i><br /><br /></i><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">How far does it fit within your usual work, and do you have a particular dramaturgical approach to creating a production?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Our last three stage productions have all been one-person shows, so that’s a thread that runs through our work. There is something inherently good about the direct and playful relationship you can have between audience and performer in a one-person show. We’re open to different forms and have a very fluid, collaborative practice. We tend to design the process and the dramaturgical approach around the ideas behind each show and the people involved - rather than work to a strict structure.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>PUSH</i> is Popelei’s first film production. Our crew included film and theatre specialists,</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D2_oGnyaGX0/YRZnpzT-tcI/AAAAAAAAL90/xof8YhYJ1dYNQeYtREc98FmKBvGrGdBPgCPcBGAsYHg/s5910/Push%252C%2BPopelei%252C%2Bcourtesy%2Bof%2BThe%2BOther%2BRichard.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5910" data-original-width="3940" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D2_oGnyaGX0/YRZnpzT-tcI/AAAAAAAAL90/xof8YhYJ1dYNQeYtREc98FmKBvGrGdBPgCPcBGAsYHg/s320/Push%252C%2BPopelei%252C%2Bcourtesy%2Bof%2BThe%2BOther%2BRichard.JPG" width="213" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> which really helped with developing a way of working that honoured the energy and theatricality of the original production. As well as revisiting digital in the future, we are keen to build on the momentum of our 2020 Women in Lockdown project: a series of 25 original monologues curated from an open call for new work, supported by the Popelei Seed Commission.<u></u><u></u></span><p></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Do you see your work within any particular tradition?<br /><br /></b>Tamsin trained at LeCoq in Paris, and European physical theatre is certainly an influence. Right now, we’re mostly excited to be part of the very current movement of female-led and feminist work in the UK.<br /><br /><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">What are you hoping that the audience will experience?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The same invigorating frenzy of feelings that you get from a live show.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">How have you found the challenge of creating a production online? Has it been positive or negative and have there been any surprises?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Reimagining the stage show of <i>PUSH</i> as a film - that can be accessed digitally at Edfringe - has been hugely positive. It gave us an opportunity to build new collaborations with an insanely clever team of Bristol-based filmmakers, including cinematographer Jack Offord, and really dig into the risks and opportunities of a very different medium. We filmed <i>PUSH </i>in one long and continuous take, in a bid to capture the liveness of Tamsin Hurtado Clarke’s performance, and the energy needed from Tamsin and from every single member of the crew to complete this was a big challenge and a massive adrenaline rush.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>I have always asked about the role of theatre in public debate, but this now seems even more relevant. In the current landscape, what does theatre or performance have to give to the public sphere?<br /><br /></b><b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">During all this instability and upheaval, hopefully theatre remains one of the more solid spaces in which to connect with each other and, as importantly, ourselves.</span></p><p class="m_-4632805416990370367MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.58487; margin: 19.3589pt -0.320007pt 0pt 0.156601pt; text-indent: 0.276482pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PUSH </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">was written in response to the difficulty faced as a woman in her 30s trying to separate your own life choices from the sense of a biological ticking clock, and the eternal question of whether to try to become a parent. It was created out of a desire to see the seemingly mundane moments of a woman’s life portrayed and explored on a grander scale. Here, the three-minute panic of waiting for the results of a pregnancy test transforms into a full-scale existential crisis, pulling in physical theatre and dance to express the broad range of complicated emotions. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.58305; margin: 19.3414pt 0.317879pt 0pt 3.5014pt; text-indent: 0.622086pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Director Scarlett Plouviez comments, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">figuring out if, how and when to have a baby has never been easy. The last year has complicated this even further for many - dating in a time of social distancing, cancelled fertility appointments, money problems, moving back in with your parents, the climate crisis...the list goes on. PUSH doesn’t pretend to have an answer to any of this, but instead holds a mirror up to what it can feel like to experience a sliding-doors moment in your life, looking down at a pregnancy test and wondering what it is exactly that you want. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.5827; margin: 19.4789pt 0.271805pt 0pt 16.0902pt; text-indent: 0.668159pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Popelei is an ongoing collaboration between writer-performer Tamsin Hurtado Clarke and writer-director Scarlett Plouviez, seeking to make performances that are authentic, energetic </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 0.0115204pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and hopeful, reflecting the world as they experience it and want it to be. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 0.0115204pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PUSH </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 0.0115204pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">features an original soundtrack by a regular Popelei collaborator, the renowned Chilean film and stage composer Santiago Jara Astaburuaga. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.94104pt; margin-top: 36.584pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.0529251pt; margin-top: 21.5353pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Title </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PUSH </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.939964pt; margin-top: 22.3162pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Performance Dates Friday 6</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.6pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Monday 30</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.6pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">August 2021 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 108.164pt; margin-top: 4.82617pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Available on demand </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.939964pt; margin-top: 23.0361pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Running time 40 minutes </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.513725pt; margin-top: 22.3161pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Created by Popelei </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.939964pt; margin-top: 4.7962pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Performer Tamsin Hurtado Clarke </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.939964pt; margin-top: 4.7962pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Director Scarlett Plouviez </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.939964pt; margin-top: 4.79614pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Producer Penelope Saward </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.513725pt; margin-top: 4.7962pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Composer/Sound Designer Santiago Jara Astaburuaga </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.513725pt; margin-top: 4.81616pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cinematographer Jack Offord </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.375481pt; margin-top: 4.7962pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sound Recordist Graeme Willetts </span></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-947e76cf-7fff-c67e-c2c7-ca9741c9fada"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.168121pt; margin-top: 4.79617pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Assistant Director Anja Kulessa </span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092943291949853541.post-35401432497022266282021-08-12T05:19:00.003-07:002021-08-13T03:33:15.730-07:00From the Snug: an Edfringe Podcast<p><br /></p> <iframe width="100%" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&feed=%2Fgarethkvile%2Fvile-on-the-fringe-from-the-snug-episode-2%2F" frameborder="0" ></iframe>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092943291949853541.post-57010710805925664182021-08-12T05:06:00.007-07:002021-08-12T05:09:18.645-07:00Wings Over Dundee<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre will spread their wings from 7 September as they announce a re-opening date and an exciting new season of theatre and dance both live in-theatre at The Rep and a continuation of Rep Studios filmed content available on-demand online. </span></strong></span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2VnBTaEc8cs/YRUOkApMitI/AAAAAAAAL9A/Xo13xiMhuFQ_Z7wgJPI6SWxdot8kc-P7QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/unnamed%2B%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="706" height="397" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2VnBTaEc8cs/YRUOkApMitI/AAAAAAAAL9A/Xo13xiMhuFQ_Z7wgJPI6SWxdot8kc-P7QCLcBGAsYHQ/w281-h397/unnamed%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="281" /></a></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></strong></span></div><strong style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://dundeerep.co.uk/whats-on " target="_blank">Tickets available to book now </a></strong></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre are thrilled to confirm that after 18 months they will once again <strong>open their doors to audiences on 7 September </strong>with the <strong>World Premiere of <em>Wings Around Dundee </em></strong>by playwright <strong>John McCann</strong>, a highlight of a newly announced autumn season of live and digital shows focused on celebrating the community spirit and giving thanks to the people of Dundee and wider Scotland who have engaged with and supported Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre during this challenging time.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The season also includes a long-awaited return of such critically acclaimed shows as <strong><em>Antigone, Interrupted</em></strong> which will see Scottish Dance Theatre <strong>touring for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic</strong>, and <strong><em>TuTuMucky</em></strong>, a smash hit from <strong>Botis Seva</strong> blending hip hop, ballet and contemporary dance. <strong>The National Theatre of Scotland</strong> will return once again with the <strong>World Premiere of <em>The Enemy</em> opening at The Rep</strong> and the season will climax with a new musical adaptation of <strong><em>A Christmas Carol</em> </strong>- created in collaboration with Noisemaker - to spread the holiday cheer around Dundee and an ambitious <strong>Community Engagement</strong> programme including <em><strong>Sinder / Every Map</strong> Has A Scale</em> and a world-class dance and theatre offer for people of all ages.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Both companies have carried out careful and detailed planning in preparation for the re-opening to ensure their operations follow the Covid-19 Scottish Government guidance with the safety of audiences, artists and staff being the top priority.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><strong>Dundee Rep’s Artistic Director Andrew Panton said</strong>: “What an amazing feeling to be welcoming audiences back into the Rep after such a long period. Our autumn season celebrates the work of our two ensembles with world premieres and new films capturing their collaborations over the past months in our communities. We also continue working with the most exciting freelance theatre, dance and music artists who have consistently innovated whilst our theatre has been closed. I’m thrilled that Rep Studios will continue alongside our in person work, so that anyone anywhere can continue to have access to the work of Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><strong>Scottish Dance Theatre Artistic Director Joan Clevillé said</strong>: “Our autumn season reflects the wide range of dance experiences that Scottish Dance Theatre can offer, and our commitment as a resource for the development of artistic and civic communities. I am thrilled by the prospect of safely welcoming audiences back into theatre spaces, but I am equally excited by continuing our artistic journey into the digital medium, which has allowed us to connect with audiences all over the world.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-THhgYpAVQrw/YRUPWa_Y57I/AAAAAAAAL9I/3HRRRpR_6toC4V92IKaQIcka9wZjQXY2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s609/unnamed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="255" data-original-width="609" height="157" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-THhgYpAVQrw/YRUPWa_Y57I/AAAAAAAAL9I/3HRRRpR_6toC4V92IKaQIcka9wZjQXY2ACLcBGAsYHQ/w557-h157/unnamed.jpg" width="557" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092943291949853541.post-70974452136039947382021-08-12T04:50:00.002-07:002021-08-12T04:50:39.048-07:00Ithaca: on demand<p> <span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ithaca </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-0726ac60-7fff-e897-b8fc-34d183b38858"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15.48pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edinburgh Fringe On Demand - </span><span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.04pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friday 6</span><span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th </span></span><span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.04pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Monday 30</span><span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th </span></span><span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.04pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">August 2021 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.04pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uhaiUvUhmWw" width="320" youtube-src-id="uhaiUvUhmWw"></iframe></div><br /><span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.04pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 19.2548828125pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ithaca </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is an autobiographical feminist one-woman adaptation of Homer’s </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Odyssey </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from writer </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.5827005863189696; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.796173095703125pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and performer<a href="www.phoebeangeni.com/ithaca " target="_blank"> Phoebe Angeni</a>. Exploring contemporary social issues, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ithaca </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">follows the journey of Nobody, a feminine aspect of Odysseus, as she re-defines her relationship with self and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 1.242279052734375pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">home. Fantasy and reality merge in this new dynamic and darkly comic production about </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.816162109375pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nobody’s journey to find home, while creating space and a voice for herself within a world and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.79620361328125pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">body, which seem to forcefully reject her. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.5827020168304442; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 23.036163330078125pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ithaca </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a stage-for-screen production where black box theatre meets experimental film. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the play draws heavily from Homer’s work, Angeni has taken its broad themes and used them to </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tell her own story, having always related to the obstacles Odysseus faces. By playing a female </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 1.12225341796875pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">version of Odysseus as well as embodying the invisible monsters, she is able to represent her</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.796142578125pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">authentic experience and place the fuller figured female body in a position of heroism.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 23.066192626953125pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through the lens of an unconventional heroine, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ithaca </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">examines crucial social issues such as fat </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.796173095703125pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">phobia, bullying, domestic harassment, mental health, chronic illness and immigration. Sadly </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.796142578125pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">these are all things Angeni has experienced herself having had to go to court to get </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a lifetime </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.916168212890625pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">restraining order for domestic harassment against her biological father, her experience of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.5826998710632323; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.796142578125pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">immigration difficulties between the UK and US and her anxiety issues and depression no doubt </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">exacerbated by her class at school forming the ‘I Hate Fat Phoebe’ club. Angeni has been able </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 1.1222381591796875pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to move through her traumas and aims for this work to be a positive portrayal of what is </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.796142578125pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">possible when you overcome obstacles! </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4.796142578125pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QQRbuI_CqZo/YRUJ4SkyuCI/AAAAAAAAL8Y/z92SZkIc4mYS-_aKJWLdNF5Lz-amWg79QCPcBGAsYHg/s4800/Ithaca%252C%2BEdinburgh%2BFringe%2B2021%252C%2Bcourtesy%2BPhoebe%2BAngeni%2B-%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2224" data-original-width="4800" height="217" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QQRbuI_CqZo/YRUJ4SkyuCI/AAAAAAAAL8Y/z92SZkIc4mYS-_aKJWLdNF5Lz-amWg79QCPcBGAsYHg/w469-h217/Ithaca%252C%2BEdinburgh%2BFringe%2B2021%252C%2Bcourtesy%2BPhoebe%2BAngeni%2B-%2B1.jpg" width="469" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.52pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p></span><p><span style="color: #222222;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And for the first predictable question: what was the inspiration for your show?</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Since I first picked it up at about age twelve, I’ve been inspired by Homer’s <i>Odyssey</i>. Thirteen or so years and a handful of translations later and I still resonate with Odysseus’ journey towards home and selfhood in the face of great challenges. I’ve always wanted to create a work based on <i>The</i> <i>Odyssey</i>, and when the pandemic hit and lockdowns began I decided it was finally time to check this show off my bucket list!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>How far does it fit within your usual work, and do you have a particular dramaturgical approach to creating a production?</b><b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Much of my work so far has involved Classical texts; however, this piece is a major departure in the fact that, as a poet, it is the first full play I’ve written. As a performer, it’s also a change and introspective challenge to be playing a character based on myself rather than one that someone else has written for me. In addition, this is the first play I’ve produced and directed; however, I have previously produced and directed short films, which very much came in handy given the fact that <i>Ithaca</i> is a digital piece.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In terms of my general approach to creating a production, I can be quite eclectic. I have sub-threshold ADHD, so my first step is always to create focus by setting out plot structure and detailed thoughts/aims for my work scene by scene. This initial outline allows me to jump around within the show as I research and new ideas come to me. I then piece the project together, re-arranging my thoughts like puzzle pieces until they take their final shape.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t7spKczt768/YRUKhwZyueI/AAAAAAAAL8k/E474KgxpJ78dvBOScZ2uPgQ-HdrLS0kqwCPcBGAsYHg/s3600/Phoebe.Angeni.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3600" data-original-width="2391" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t7spKczt768/YRUKhwZyueI/AAAAAAAAL8k/E474KgxpJ78dvBOScZ2uPgQ-HdrLS0kqwCPcBGAsYHg/w264-h320/Phoebe.Angeni.jpg" width="264" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For <i>Ithaca</i>, I broke down Homer’s epic into its main events and themes, picked out the chapters central to Odysseus, transposed my life story into the place of Odysseus’, and then ran with it. I wanted to create a show that brings Classical Epic into the contemporary age. <i>Ithaca</i> is a piece that experiments with theatrical format and conventions, that raises awareness for social issues, and that anyone can watch and resonate with – whether or not they have read <i>The</i> <i>Odyssey</i>.<u></u><u></u></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Do you see your work within any particular tradition?</b><b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I’d say the best way to describe my work is experimental. I’m inspired by Classical texts, mythology, and physical theatre. I love to link history with the modern-day and I enjoy emphasising the body as geography within which I can explore current socio-political issues. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Poetry and experimental film also both inform the style in which I present my work, as I focus heavily on how my text sounds, how the lines of dialogue bounce with one another, and how I can create a visually evocative experience. I’m also especially inspired by surrealism and other artistic genres that seek to explore the subconscious and lines between fantasy and reality.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>What are you hoping that the audience will experience?</b><b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Ithaca </i>takes place in a very intimate space and features techniques and effects designed to be absorptive, so I’m hoping that the audience feels as if they’re in the room with me as I perform the show. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I hope the experience will be inspiring and thought-provoking both in terms of the style of the show and the social issues featured within the plot. If audience members resonate with the journey of my central character, Nobody, I hope that they will feel her strength and that they will leave the show with a sense of catharsis, empowerment, and hope.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>How have you found the challenge of creating a production online? Has it been positive or negative and have there been any surprises?</b><b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Creating a digital show has definitely been a challenge, but it has also given me the amazing opportunity to expand my knowledge of pre and post-production. Since the pandemic, I found myself as a one-woman operation both on and off-stage and the format of creating a digital piece allowed me to not only write and perform <i>Ithaca</i>, but also to direct, film, and edit the show.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Having my hand in every element of production allowed me to shape the show into a distilled expression of my creative vision. The most difficult aspect of production was operating in a sixteen square foot room with fairly limited technology and only myself as both performer and camera operator. The challenges and restrictions I faced throughout production, however, also pushed me to think outside of my expectations and create a piece that ultimately took on a life of its own!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>I have always asked about the role of theatre in public debate, but this now seems even more relevant. In the current landscape, what does theatre or performance have to give to the public sphere?</b><b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I believe in theatre’s gift of perspective and empathetic connection. In a world both recovering from and still amidst a pandemic, connection is something that we all deeply crave and throughout this past couple of years connection has increasingly come from digital platforms. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Theatre has always given its audiences something great to be a part of – a community, a story, a space. Digital theatre will not replace live shows, but it democratises performance, both connecting artists across the globe and ensuring that communities with accessibility requirements aren’t left behind as traditional spaces re-open.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">At its best, theatre is by and for the people and should reflect our truth, bring us together, and advocate for a better future. Theatre is for socio-political examination, to reflect the light and shadow of society, and theatre is also for experimentation – to show the world its potential.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72.1046371459961pt; margin-top: 32.12530517578125pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.520000457763672pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Title </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.520000457763672pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Ithaca </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72.9916763305664pt; margin-top: 23.156219482421875pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.520000457763672pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Running Time 60 minutes </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72.9916763305664pt; margin-top: 23.036163330078125pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.520000457763672pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Box Office Tickets are available from </span><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.520000457763672pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">www.edfringe.com </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.520000457763672pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">priced £9 (£5) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.5827005863189696; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72.1046371459961pt; margin-right: 155.90762329101562pt; margin-top: 23.056182861328125pt; text-indent: 0.8870391845703125pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.520000457763672pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Instagram @phoebe.angeni, @offrecordangeni, #IthacaEdinburgh Twitter @PhoebeAngeni, #IthacaEdinburgh </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; 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underground LA punk-funk band and Norwegian-American comedy duo end up working
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and Lucas (the lead singer of Thump) met in LA a few years ago while dating two
girls that were best friends. The two boys fell madly in love with their
girlfriends and started hanging out loads - eating at taco trucks and ramen
spots all over town. A few months into the friendship they both got dumped and
were completely heartbroken. The two boys met up at a diner really late at
night, Lucas showed Zach an opera he was working on, and they decided to give
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you say opera people think of a lot specific elements but really an opera is
just a narrative piece expressed entirely by music. Thump is a funk band so
when they wrote an opera, of course it was funky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But funk is as much a mentality as it is a
sound. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #282b2b; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 101%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">There’s a New Yorker piece on George Clinton
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there would always be a place for you on the Holy Mothership. If you just stood
there, with your arms folded, you were probably down with Sir Nose ‘DVoido</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #282b2b; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 101%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">ff</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #282b2b; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 101%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">unk, a killjoy who promises
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course we want everyone to be blown away and leave with a newfound love for
life - but above all we just want everyone to have a good time. Most people
think of chaos and idiocy when they think of us but there’s still a strong
theatrical element to what we create. We’re hoping to go further in that direction
this year and see where it goes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 101%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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idea of love (although people will disagree if they know me), so I feel better
qualified to ask about this part of the show. You are exploring many kinds of
love - can you make a statement about any conclusions that you might be drawing
in the production, and any handy advice for a love-struck critic who might be
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Zach, Viggo and Jonny (director of Zach & Viggo) all met at a clown school
in France called Ècole Philippe Gaulier. While we were there we studied
Melodrama and some saw some of the funniest things we’ve ever seen on stage.
You can’t write better jokes than clowns seriously trying to do dramatic
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">STARDUST<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is a piece that
dissects the journey from the coca leaf sacred to indigenous communities in the
Amazons and the Andes to a line of Cocaine in a mirror in the fast moving world
we live in; a world driven by an insatiable need to consume. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">In the piece we talk about the human and cultural cost that
cocaine production, traffic and consumption have in communities in Latin
America, the general association that </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Colombians are by
default directly linked to cocaine and narcotrafic, the criminal element that
is immediately transferd to us as a result of the stigma and how this allows
xenophobic narratives and policies to exist. It questions the role played by
the Western world in the history that lead to the growing popularity of
cocaine, the voracious demand for the drug, the point in which the whole thing
became illegal, the economical reality of the illegal trade and where the money
actually goes to, the anti drug policies, and of course<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the war on drugs and its impact on the less privileged
and marginalised communities all over the world - but in particular In Colombia
and Latin America. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Yes, we know... this is an gigantic issue, an extremely complex
worldwide problem that has millions of sides to it, and strong interest that
drive it – there are no easy solutions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to provide answers - afterall, the information already exists and can be easily
Googled by anyone. So what the piece is intended to do, is to make the journey
a relevant one for the audiences and to be an affecting piece of theatre and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to generate a strong emotional connection with
the audience inviting them to actively engage and play an active part in the
search for change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">STARDUST departs from the understanding that any real change
starts with the individual and that in order to generate individual changes we
need to touch people’s inner fibers and invite them to empathise, to care. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">As humans it is part of our survival instinct not to engage or
care for things that don’t affect us, and why would we?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone has enough things to deal without
spending <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>extra energy on things that
they don’t really care for. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">If we don’t empathise with something or someone, we don’t care
about them - and if we don’t care, then we do nothing. And that is exactly
where the transformative powers of theatre play a pivotal role. The shared
experience of seeing a group of people – actors - go through live struggles in
front of our very eyes,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the intimate
relationship that can exist<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>between the
audience, the actors and the show, means that people can empathise with a
difficult life situation without having to live it themselve, or have a direct
connection to those to it through a family member or friend. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">With<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>STARDUST we aim to
deliver information and speak out<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>about
a pressing and complex issue but our main goal is to create that that emotional
connection with our audience that we know can transform them into active agents
of change. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Are there ways in which
your work can engage the audience beyond the immediate emotional rush of the
content, and move forward towards further action?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">There are many things to be done; the issue is complex and
around the world individuals and organisations are working tirelessly to find
solutions working to change drug policies, supporting problematic users,
supporting farmers in small communities in Colombia, supporting farmers and the
use of other coca products like teas, creams and shampoos that is happening in
Bolivia and parts of Colombia, defending the lives of social leaders who are
demanding state support in isolated areas of Colombia and many more. As a
theatre company we are particularly encouraged by the potential of channeling
our audience’s response to the work and we direct them towards practical steps they
can take. In our previous show ‘Pedro and the Captain by Mario Benedetti’ A
play about torture, we partnered up with NGO REDRESS who support victims of
torture and we gave the audience three simple actions to take, sign a petition,
donate, write a letter to a victim. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">With STARDUST the journey to define those exact practical
actions is still finding its way. People may think we’ll be telling people to
stop using cocaine, but that is too simplistic; the issue is much bigger than that-
and whilst that is an action some people might chose to make, we are certainly
not telling people what to do and it might not necessarily be the only or
actual solution. For this show we have counted with the support of the IDCP (International
Drug Policy Consortium, RELEASE (UK), ATC (Col) ANZORC (Col) and others who
have informed the piece through their knowledge and experience and who have joined
us during the post show conversations we organise with the audience, a space
where we invite the audience to talk and voice their opinions - which is the
very first step to further action and change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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solutions, we are looking to connect deeply with the audience and invite them
to join us in the conversation, be part of an open an honest dialogue where we
question our relationship with the whole issue, the role we play and our share
of the responsibility. This might not seem like much, but we strongly believe
that further action starts with an emotional reaction and the urgent need to do
respond to that emotion. With this show we have seen how are audience is
desperate to talk, to share their points of view and to react. Yes, we have
heard of radical changes people make in their behavior regarding cocaine
and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the way the see the drug issue, cocaine,
coca, Colombians and themselves - which is a testimony to what the impact the work
can have. And whilst we will continue to try find those exact actions that we might
guide people to take, we are motivated by starting a conversation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">This is the first show I’ve taken to the Edinburgh Fringe and
whilst the conditions of the Fringe mean the show needs shrunk a bit to fit the
space; and also the length, (the piece originally lasted 65 mins and we had to
cut five ... not easy) the show since its inception was created with the idea
of it being portable and adaptable. STARDUST was initially R&D’d as part of
an Artist in Residence program at CASA</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"> Latin American Theatre
Festival in 2017 and the full production premiered at VAULT festival 2018, so
the structure of fringe festivals has already been taken in to consideration. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">The main goal with this show was to be able to take the message
everywhere and with that in mind the decision for it to be a solo piece came
about, as well as the choice to use a minimalist set. The one thing that been
important for the work, is not to let the conditions affect the ambition and
quality. I tend to see parameters and creative challenges more than limitations;
there is so much that can be achieved when there is little. In a way the game
is to outwit the conditions; that in itself is exciting and tickles the
imagination, challenging creativity and resourcefulness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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excerpts of the show in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>places without theatrical
conditions, places like small galleries and outdoor festivals - and what is initially
a bit daunting, has given birth to new solutions and new details that now
inform the show. I am very much looking forward to Edinburgh fringe, I am
excited to see what new things will come and how the piece will develops.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /><br /><b>What was the inspiration for this performance? </b><br />It came from a few different places. One was my fascination with the Isles of Scilly and how geographically different they are to the rest of the British Isles, wanting to explore a mystical side to what happens there. Another was my love of all things fantasy, how I've always wanted to bring realms of the mystical into the real world, in particular with Andromeda the folklore of mermaids. How untapped they are in terms of their agenda and what their history is. <br /><br />Finally the big one for me was WWI. My research began at the beginning of 2017 when visiting the Imperial War Museum in London, meeting with chief historians in WWI studies and understanding the horrors that the soldiers went through, not just on the front line, but within themselves, as is the case with Edward. With 2018 being the 100 year anniversary of the armistice of WWI, this story feels somewhat current despite the era it's set within. <br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Is performance still a good space for
the public discussion of ideas? </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">I think it’s quite possibly one of the
only potentially safe spaces left to have a public discussion of ideas! The
idea of holding the mirror up to society is such a powerful image to me that I
feel goes hand-in-hand with performance, whether it be a play, musical, dance
piece etc. It’s created to make an audience not just question society but also
themselves within society and their own role. I normally go to the theatre on
my own, sad I know, and I always find that there’s nothing more interesting
than when leaving a show and listening in on what people thought of the piece,
even more so when two people think to completely different things.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span lang="EN-US">How did you become interested in
making performance?</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">I’ve always been a very ‘hands on’ approach
kind of person, especially from a young age and definitely when I was in
school. I simply can’t sit behind a desk or watch a demonstration, I have to be
very much involved on a physical level.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">When I was finishing my final years at
secondary school I used to pop up to London on my own and go to watch theatre,
in particular to the Royal Court, what I believe to be the home of the most
exciting, engaging and thought provoking new writing and performance.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">That building inspired me deeply and
even does so today, in particular with writing plays, hopefully one day my name
will appear on those red neon lights…</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Is there any particular approach to
the making of the show?</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">I’m a meticulous planner. People who
know me know that my day-to-day activities have to be structured and thought out,
even if it’s a lazy day at home with nothing on the agenda, I’ll still make an
effort to prepare the day!</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">The same goes with the making of a
show. When it came to writing In Pursuit of Andromeda I had a story layout,
scene/act map, character arc line and research notes galore, I could never
write anything cold, there are some who can and I’m in awe of them, but for me
it’s all about the preparation down to the very last detail.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">As the Polish bar manager said to me
at a cocktail bar I used to work at “Fail to prepare then prepare to fail.”</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Does the show fit with your usual
productions?</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">This is the first production that I
have ever put on, as well as my first written piece! I’m sure lessons and
regularity will become clearer once we have finished our time up in Edinburgh,
but hopefully this has a life after so maybe anything I learnt that needs
working on can be cleared up then…</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span lang="EN-US">What do you hope that the audience
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">I hope that the audience experiences
something new, exciting and breathtaking. In Pursuit of Andromeda is an
enchanting little play, littered with beautiful music from our composer Harry
Sever and stunning movement from our movement director Micaela Miranda, where
after many years of the world tearing itself apart in the most horrific of
circumstances, the real world and the fantasy world meet one another to try and
put just a little piece of it back together again.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">I’ve written the lyrics for all of the
songs too so if I get to hear any of them from audience members around the streets
or pubs then that’ll be a nice added bonus!</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">What was the inspiration for this performance?</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme and the NewsRevue. The former, a BBC Radio Four sketch show, the latter the longest running live comedy sketch show in the world. Both are brilliantly written, crafted and performed shows which inspired us to start our own journey. We are all actors and had worked together before in various capacities: from film to improv troupe Very Serious People. We came together in a beautiful marriage of written material, the desire to work and finding each other completely hilarious. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Is performance still a good space for the public discussion of ideas?</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Absolutely. Especially if those ideas are ‘what if OFSTED went to Hogwarts’ or ‘What will our generation’s Dad Dancing be?’ </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">On a more serious note, performance is an invaluable space for the discussion of ideas and we sincerely believe that the demographics these discussion reach must be vastly widened and diversified. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">How did you become interested in making performance?</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We’re in it for the money.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Is there any particular approach to the making of the show?</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">A first draft of a sketch will be written. This will either come out of a mutual discussion, an idiosyncratic comment or from sitting in cafes for too long. Once we have a draft it is reworked and edited by all four of us until it is precise, lean and fits the following criteria:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> It makes us laugh</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> It doesn’t ‘punch down’ </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> It can be acted with sincerity </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Alongside writing jokes about Pope try-outs and the dangers of Original Source shower gel, we spend a lot of time discussing the political message our show is transmitting. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Does the show fit with your usual productions?</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This is our Edinburgh Frine debut so this is sort of the litmus test of what a usual ‘Just These, Please’ production is. So yes. It completely fits and is entirely on brand, one of the fringe benefits (pun intended) of being a brand new brand. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">What do you hope that the audience will experience?</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We hope the audience will experience fulfilment, happiness and a new found purpose. Regarding our show, however, we hope they spend an hour laughing and leave with a newfound respect for their Bag For Life. </span></span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092943291949853541.post-12103567124718079982018-07-29T05:40:00.002-07:002018-07-29T05:40:22.120-07:00Fire at the Art School (Reprise)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com70tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092943291949853541.post-22314132858638840852018-07-29T01:01:00.002-07:002018-07-29T01:01:36.900-07:00Valerie Dramaturgy: Robin Kelly @ Edfringe 2018<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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into the guts of families and their mythologies and also honours all the women,
down the generations, who have been strong for those they love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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inspired by his own grandmother’s battle to support a troubled family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20pt;">This was a family where the seemingly
joyous quirkiness of a grandfather who kept live canaries in his beard slid
into despair and dislocation through the nearly overwhelming impact of severe
mental illness. Kelly’s grandmother Valerie was their bulwark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>First of all, how do you define mental health? What does the term mean to you - do you have a social model of sanity, for example, or is it concerned with neural atypical conditions?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Our show ‘Valerie’ deals quite directly with the conflict between conceiving ‘mental health’ as either a social or medical/neurological condition. That conflict really percolates through the whole work. As the writer of the work I have a background in molecular and neuro biology, and so my first port of call for understanding mental disturbance is a scientific one. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">We’re looking at the intergeneration ramifications of mental health issues. So this necessarily touches on both the genetic and environmental factors that contribute to an individual’s overall health. The catalyst for the work was my grandfather’s severe schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and the spectre of genetic susceptibility that haunts my generation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Mental health issues are scary. Even though mental illness is much less stigmatized these days, it can still be an extremely confronting phenomenon to experience yourself, and there are plenty of barriers to openly acknowledging that struggle. ‘Valerie’ is, for me, an extremely personal platform to uncompromisingly stare that fear in the face. I expect (and have experienced) that being an audience member for this show is challenging, but it’s a constructive challenge. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">A challenge to openly acknowledge your own fear, your own grief, your own struggles. To not compartmentalize or shut off. To be vulnerable and open to what scares you. We all have rationalisations that prevent us from dealing directly with some of our biggest flaws. ‘Valerie’ encourages audiences to slough off those rationalisations and just start to feel. I reckon that’s a vital first step to constructive coping with mental health challenges.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Positive self-care in the fringe has been a lynchpin of our strategy as a company for coming to Edinburgh. We’re coming from the other side of the world (little ol’ New Zealand), which means not only facing a huge financial burden, but leaving all our support structures behind. So as a company we’re looking inward to support each other with some super practical steps. The most important of these is that we have scheduled time across August to check back in with families/therapists/partners/friends at home, and we all understand that that is a priority which supersedes anything else – flyering, socialising, seeing other shows, whatever. Personally, I’ve got my running shoes and I’m going to start an intimate relationship with Arthur’s Seat. </span></span><br />
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connection between experiences across generations. I’ve written some pretty
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saying thank you to my grandmother and all those other women across the world
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successful track record <i>The Last Five
Years</i>, <i>Verbatim</i>, <i>Earnest</i>, <i>Fallout: The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior</i>, <i>Love and Information</i>) and sums up its ethos as “theatre that gives
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: #500050;">Can we start by talking about the illusion? That sounds as if it will be something unique at the Fringe. Where did you discover this trick, and why did it appeal to you for contemporary use?</span></b><span style="color: #500050;"><u></u><u></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">I taught myself how to make a Pepper’s Ghost through internet research and trial-and-error. It’s actually a very simple technique, and has been used since the mid 19th century. The contemporary innovation, which was not my own, was to use video projection. The main issue has always been getting a mirror big enough. I started by using actual glass mirrors, then commercial window film, but now we’re using professional grade mylar. There are companies that make these illusions commercially on a big scale. It’s mostly used at trade expos, to make cars or planes or other products appear and disappear onstage. But there are some theatre companies that use it too, like 3Legged Dog in New York and Lemieux Pilon 4D in Montreal. Obviously magicians still use it. (Our current mirror was bought second hand from a magician!) They used it in Ghost the musical on the West End, and then it sometimes gets used in big stadium music acts, like when they made a hologram of Tupac for Coachella a few years ago.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">The one innovation that I seem to have stumbled on in my trial-and-error tinkering is how to make the holograms seemingly interact with objects. Every other peppers ghost I’ve ever seen, the image always appears in a black space. But I discovered that if you place objects in the right place in relation to the projected image, they can look like they are touching. This is what I particularly love about the holograms in this piece, because they interact with real objects—the figures jump in and out of boxes, climbing on them, hitting them—it gives them a real sense of presence and weight. But they aren’t touching! In fact the image that you are seeing is a reflection and isn’t in the space. The two performers can’t even see the holograms at all. They spend the entire time looking at an empty space, moving objects around the table. But to the audience it is totally convincing.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #500050;">You mention the operatic soundtrack: at what point in the process did the soundtrack start to be developed, and can you tell me about how it spans eras - and why opera?</span></b><span style="color: #500050;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">I call the piece a holographic puppet opera, but technically, it is none of those things! A pepper’s ghost is an illusion, not a hologram, the video projects are not really puppets, and there isn’t any actual opera. But somehow, that does seem to convey what the piece is. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">All of ERRATICA's work has music at its core, and almost always the human voice. When I started this project I wanted to make a piece that could be performed with either recorded or live music, and specifically unaccompanied voice. I worked with a brilliant composer and conductor, James Weeks, who leads one of the UK’s top contemporary vocal ensembles, EXAUDI. He started to suggest composers and pieces that might be of interest. I had in mind Monteverdi Madgrigals, but James pointed me towards Gesualdo and from there to Sciarrino. I put together a long playlist of options and then started to whittle it down to the 11 musical pieces in the show. The works that I chose in the end span from the middle ages to the 2010s. But they all have some connection to the themes of the piece—loss, memory, and the persistence of the past. The title, <span class="il">Toujours</span> et Près de Moi, comes from a piece that James wrote called <i>Complainte</i>, which takes up a long section in the middle of the show. It’s a setting of a poem by Mary Queen of Scots (written in French) about the death of her husband and how his memory is always close to her.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">In this way, the music actually preceded the creation of the show itself. I had an idea of the subject matter of the piece, and with my playlist, I'd mapped out a kind of emotional dramaturgy. Then, with the performers, we devised what actually happened in the scenes.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #500050;">It sounds as if it is pretty lucky that the dance section is also physical theatre, because this work feels very cross-genre. Would it root it in any particular tradition, and how does it relate to other works that you have made?</span></b><span style="color: #500050;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">All of my work is cross-genre! Aside from having music at their core, ERRATICA projects regularly involve dance, puppetry, physical theatre, and technology. Our last piece, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.erratica.org/remnants-trailer&source=gmail&ust=1531730907477000&usg=AFQjCNFe-rAthmqNZHpxNeG_L5bAf6At5g" href="http://www.erratica.org/remnants-trailer" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Remnants</a>, had 4 singers, a dancer, and recorded voice-over. We did an installation opera, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/video/concerts/la-celestina-excerpt&source=gmail&ust=1531730907477000&usg=AFQjCNGGhzo89uLYJLY1FVKQ1bWuek65GQ" href="http://www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/video/concerts/la-celestina-excerpt" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">La Celestina</a>, at the Metropolitan Musuem in New York, which was for polyphonic voice over a twelve-speaker array and projected shadow puppets, and we’ve even made an <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://vimeo.com/246441369&source=gmail&ust=1531730907477000&usg=AFQjCNHb-8HjmNbCkLBRZQH22MbwiSyreQ" href="https://vimeo.com/246441369" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">interactive pinball machine</a>. So everything we do is a bit hard to categorise.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">I think this piece makes sense as both physical theatre and dance. There is no text, so all the storytelling is done with the body. There is dance in the holograms, but I would say that the real choreographic feat is performed by the live actors. They have to enact complex choreography, moving boxes and placing them in the exact right place, looking and reacting to the holograms which they can’t even see. Its just not at all the kind of choreography that you associate with ‘dance’ and if everything is working properly, the audience doesn’t really see it as such, they just think the performers are reacting and interacting with the holograms.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">When I started working with Pepper’s Ghosts I was living in Johannesburg in South Africa with my wife’s family, although we weren’t married at the time. My wife had stomach cancer, and we both moved there from New York where we were living so that she could go through treatment and be close to her family and support networks. Thankfully, she made a full recovery, but it was a very scary and traumatic time. I made my first Pepper’s Ghost while I was there, a table-top installation called <i>Corpus Sed Non Caro. </i>After she recovered, we moved to London, and I decided I wanted to make a longer piece involving Pepper’s Ghost and live performers.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">The video for the piece was created ridiculously quickly, in two weeks with three performers. As I mentioned, I had a soundtrack and a basic story in mind, but we devised the scenes together. The box choreography was created at that time as well. Most of my pieces are developed through a combination of devising, scripted work, and composition (since they’re always musical) and are always very collaborative. My new work generally develops over an extended workshop process, often taking up to two years from initial investigation to opening night. This piece is different in that it is the record of a single condensed creation process. Because the video can’t be changed, in a way, I created a kind of script that I’m having to reinterpret each time I produce the piece. With every successive production (this is the 4th iteration) I’ve changed and improved the storytelling of the live actors, but always within the constraints of the video. This time, we’ve also introduced additional sound design to conjure the world of the show more vividly.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092943291949853541.post-53849566756354287342018-07-29T00:43:00.002-07:002018-07-29T00:43:20.380-07:00The Dramaturgy Behind the Stars: Eliza Jackson @ Edfringe 2018<br />
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and starring in it… I think I was just scared to be honest… I wasn’t ready.
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<span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">I’ve always really admired
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always terrified me. But there comes a time when you just have to suck it up
and give it a go and once I’d read just a little about Marni Nixon and her
incredible life I knew I had to tell her story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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autobiography and scoured the internet for any stories or interviews on her and
then once I felt like I kind of knew her, then I dove straight in and started
the show… The show has obviously changed a fair bit since I started writing it
back in December but the structure is still very much the same. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">This is my first show
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Dirty War in Argentina. In particular, I was drawing from this book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lexicon of Terror </i>by Marguerite
Feitlowitz which, in part, discusses how everyday language got corrupted during
the Dirty War. Innocent words and phrases became oblique references to state
violence. From there, I began writing a play about a fictional country
grappling with a new, totalitarian government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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days I’m deeply suspicious of what theatre actually accomplishes. It always
feels funny to say that my artistic discipline just <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">happens </i>to be the most important discipline. That said, I think the
value of theatre is that it is the most social of the art forms. It lives at
the perimeter of civic activity and artistic practice. It cannot exist without
collaboration. Because of all of this, perhaps naively, theatre feels to me
like one of the few collective experiences left in the world,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and therefore a place for social and public
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for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Beauty and the Beast </i>came through
town. I was hooked from that point on. It wasn’t until college that I really
figured out I didn’t want to act (and that I was a bad actor), and wanted to
write instead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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college I figured out I wanted to direct.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Lila: </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">bad things happen here </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">is
rhythm-driven, meaning that the stagecraft and technical elements are designed
to ensure that nothing disrupts the quick pace and accumulation of the play.
Eric is very intentional about when information is released to the audience, so
paradoxically, the design is abstract so that you're not getting a ton of
detail about place, time, world, etc. from the set and costumes. All of the
information comes through the dialogue and relationship between the characters.
There's very little blocking and gesture, the costumes might be something one
might wear today, and the original music communicates tone and mood rather than
location and setting. Each design element acquires specific meaning only later
in the play. (And we don't want to give too much away!) The design team and
actors have done an extraordinary job painting with an extremely limited
palette.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of not-knowing when I approach each new show. I’m at my worst when I work with
rules from previous projects to make the next one. That said, I think <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bad things happens here </i>shares certain
common interests that run through my work - issues of political corruption,
class, and misogyny; a structural playfulness; a resistance to easy catharsis
or resolution; a certain minimalist aesthetic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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power: who has it and who doesn't? How is it functioning in the world of the
play? In that sense, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bad things happen
here </i>fits very neatly with the rest of my work. Aesthetically, it's the
most strictly minimalist production I've ever directed. I almost always think
less is more onstage, but with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bad things
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in systems of oppression. By presenting the play through the eyes of over forty
characters, my hope is it eschews any easy answers or feelings that one
character is the “correct one.” Hopefully, the play leaves spaces for a
multiplicity of points of view. There’s also lot of surprises throughout,, and
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092943291949853541.post-73990699335927669422018-07-28T10:03:00.002-07:002018-07-30T15:57:36.779-07:00The Worst Little Dramaturgy in London@ Lala and Robbie @ Edfringe 2018<br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: red; font-family: "baskerville old face" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">In two words, real life. </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: red; font-family: "baskerville old face" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Two years ago, Robbie and I
decided to pack up our lives here in Melbourne and move everything over to
London for a new adventure. In a nutshell, the cabaret is essentially our first
year living in London, but more specifically, our year living inside a
converted warehouse in the northern London borough of Harringey and the 10
characters from all corners of the world that we lived with during that time.
It’s musical theatre, camp character comedy heaven, particularly for those of
us that have share-house in the past and are all too aware of all of those
intrusive housemate scenarios that undoubtedly arise when living with people
that you didn’t choose to live with who you don’t really know that well. And
hell, when there’s ten of them! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: red; font-family: "baskerville old face" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">And then of course, there
were the struggles associated with getting work within the industry and took it
upon ourselves (as so many creatives must) to make work for ourselves rather
than wait around for it! And thus, <i>The Worst Little Warehouse</i> in London was
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the public discussion of ideas? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: red; font-family: "baskerville old face" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Absolutely. It’s one of the most pivotal
places people might be surprised to come away from with an expanded cranium.
Some people don’t like being fed ideas or concepts, but they want to have a
well-rounded view of the world. Theatre is such a unique medium where people
can sit, consume, digest and walk away once the lights come up and take what
parts they choose to take from what they’ve seen, and use that information as
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: red; font-family: "baskerville old face" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">I’ve learnt more about the world, about people, about ideas and
constructs from theatre than I’ve learnt from anything else. Theatre can
implement ideas into people but it’s also such a wonderful way for people to
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: red; font-family: "baskerville old face" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">We’ve always been interested in the
making of theatre. Aside from being actors, we’ve both dabbled in choreography,
musical direction and directing and somewhere along the lines of being a
performer, your mind often wonders to making and creating and what you’d be
like at it. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: red; font-family: "baskerville old face" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">It wasn’t until we moved to London and were faced with the
realities of long periods of no work, that Robbie and I realised that it was
probably time to start making ideas into words, words into a story and our
story into a cabaret. And London sure comes with its fair share of
inspirations. Seeing the theatre that you see there as often as you can here,
it’s hard to not become inspired to begin crafting your own. The city is soaked
in originality and there’s no place like it in the world to experiment, to create
and to be tempted to try things out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: red; font-family: "baskerville old face" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">It began with writing the script and
collating all of our collective stories about our year. From then, a timeline
was made of what would fit where and the plot began to take shape. Because our
show is based very closely on our ‘actual’ year inside the house (including the
people we lived with) we had some work to do in the way of asserting the
reality of the show and the characters within that world. Of course some of the
plot-points are slightly exacerbated (to ensure the show be as entertaining as
possible) but honestly, many of the stories are extracted purely from real-life
happenings. The hardest part of it all was working out how to find a prop that
would help us establish each of the 12 characters within the show that we simultaneously
play, without detracting and blurring the lines of who ‘we’ were too. Add to
that fact the fast and furious pace in which those character changes need to
take place, we knew our focus would be ensuring these characters and their
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: red; font-family: "baskerville old face" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Robbie and I both have backgrounds
predominantly within the realm of Musical Theatre, so writing and performing in
something so truly ‘cabaret’ has been an exciting and rewarding experience.
Cabaret can be so intuitive, so based on audience reactions, so fleeting and so
instinctive. It’s been a real thrill to steer away from the traditional method
of getting your script, reading and learning it, blocking with the director,
learning your choreography. This time, we’ve felt it out as we’ve gone, changed
and chopped constantly and relentlessly played around with things until they’ve
felt right and worked so collaboratively with our fabulous director Sarah
Redmond. It’s been a challenge but something that will shape future projects
and experiences. And of course, working with your real life partner is a new
one! We’ve learnt so much about each other and it’s a real rarity to share both
a bedroom and a stage with the one you love.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: red; font-family: "baskerville old face" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We hope that they will
laugh and laugh lots. When your show is billed as a comedy, that’s the one
absolute necessity you need to happen, otherwise you are in trouble! Secondly,
we hope they see the relevancies in our share-house humour and relatability.
Our show is 55 minutes of real life and we’d like to think that people can
share and experience it with us and reflect on their own journey since leaving
school and living with friends to perfect strangers. Although it’s 55 minutes
of fast paced wacky comedy, we also hope you’ll find moments of pathos and
quiet reflection within it. We’ve tried to balance it all out meticulously to
ground the production and ensure every type of person can find something
meaningful, or similarly hilarious within it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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