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Reviews
Hall
Viewed in context, HALL is a necessary step in the evolution of audio-instructed performance to a form capable of telling big, sprawling stories as well as brief, compact ones.
Alison’s House
Even-handed and humane, Alison’s House is another timely and thought-provoking find from The Orange Tree.
Found in the Ground
Found in the Ground isn’t calculated to accommodate the Barker novice, or anyone with a low-ish boredom threshold.
The Author
In the final 15 minutes, The Author is revealed for what it has really been all along: a daring act of self-flagellation by Crouch on behalf of provocative art and controversial artists.
Articles
A Practical Guide to Theatre and the Web: Blogging
Writing a blog can be a powerful learning tool, it can promote critical and analytical thinking, both with regard to your artistic process and to issues at stake in the wider world.
A Practical Guide to Theatre and the Web: Introducing Social Media
One of the main reasons why you might use social media tools is that the entry barriers are low, both technologically and financially.
A Practical Guide to Theatre and the Web: WordPress (Part 2 of 2)
In part 2 of her practical guide to website building with WordPress, Sinead Mac Manus covers design and functionality to achieve a unique look and feel to your new site’s design.
Interviews
Mischa Twitchin on the history of SHUNT and their new show Money
The conversations around Money started before Easter last year, so before Northern Rock, but after the Enron scandal.
Alan Lane on Slung Low and They Only Come Out at Night
We're clearly part of a recent interest and enthusiasm for installations, of being put in immersive environments.
A Practical Guide to Theatre and the Web: Blogging
Sinead Mac Manus
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In this next instalment of hands-on articles, creative business consultant, Sinead Mac Manus, covers the basics of setting up a blog, some benefits and pitfalls, advice on staying on top of developments in the blogosphere and looks towards the future of blogging.
Blogging: The Basics
The term ‘blog’ comes from the amalgamation of ‘Web’ and ‘log’. The original Weblogs were literally ‘Web logs’ or lists of sites gathered together by an…Theatre Sets
Theatre in Pictures
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In this series, Edinburgh based photographer, Ines Gennuso, showcases a selection of images taken over a one year period, photographing stage sets prior to performance. The project focuses on the way artificial light, with its reverberating colours, imbues space with a surreal and atmospheric quality; transforming the ordinary into something bold and dramatic.
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Hall
Matt Boothman
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This latest addition to the audio-instructed performance genre is, at least in terms of sheer scale, the most ambitious work of its kind yet attempted. But while that ambition is what makes HALL worthwhile – not just as a dramatic experience but as proof that audio-instructed performance still has exciting new places to go – it is also the root of the production’s problems.
The Hall itself, a secret location divulged…
Mischa Twitchin on the history of SHUNT and their new show Money
Andrew Eglinton
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For the past decade the 10 core members of the Shunt Collective, working closely with associate artists and an expanding network of collaborators from the Lounge Project, have pioneered large-scale, shared theatre experiences in a series of uniquely crafted environments. Their latest creation, Money, partly inspired by Emile Zola’s novel of the same name, involves a Victorian-era machine, a behemoth whose innards house satirical tales of economic risk, rivalry and…
A Practical Guide to Theatre and the Web: Introducing Social Media
Sinead Mac Manus
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In this next instalment of hands-on articles, creative business consultant, Sinead Mac Manus, jumps into the world of social media and social networking and provides an overview of its benefits and pitfalls. In the coming weeks, she will address specific apps and platforms, starting next week with the world of blogging.
What is Social Media?
As we discovered in the first article in this series, social media can be defined as…Alan Lane on Slung Low and They Only Come Out at Night
Mika Eglinton
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Alan Lane is the artistic director of the Leeds-based company Slung Low, currently performing They Only Come Out at Night: Visions in the Barbican Theatre’s car park. The company is formed of 7 artists from a wide range of disciplines including prose, movement, video, sound and theatre. In this interview, theatre crtic and academic, Mika Eglinton, talks to Alan Lane about aspects of the company’s history, artistic practice and the conceptual…
Alison’s House
Stephe Harrop
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Alison’s House by Susan Glaspell is set on the very last day of the nineteenth century. A rambling house that was once home to a celebrated poetess is on the point of being broken up and sold. Her surviving family pick their way through the debris, clutching ambiguous relics, concealing the evidence of old scandals. Caught between private memory and public mythology, they retell and repress their various versions of Alison’s…
Found in the Ground
Stephe Harrop
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So. There’s a Nuremberg judge burning his library of unread books, while his daughter copulates obsessively with the dying. A faceless, bare-breasted woman stalks across the stage, groaning ‘I am all the Anne Franks’ to the point of absurdity, then tedium. Three mechanical dogs trundle awkwardly about, howling unpersuasively and cluttering up the space. And a sinister chorus line of uniformed nurses march, smirk, titter, and bare their backsides in…
The Author
Matt Boothman
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Tim Crouch ’s The Author is a bitter little pill, too heavily sugared and something of a kill or cure.
Up until the final 15 minutes it’s a curiosity, an experiment for experimentation’s sake. We, the audience, are both stage and set dressing. Adrian , the archetypal gushing theatre enthusiast, speaks up from among our ranks, encouraging conversation, an exchange of views. Other performers, including Crouch himself, playing himself, reveal themselves…
Money
Matt Boothman
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The machine fills the New SHUNT Space from floor to ceiling. It clanks, rumbles, whooshes steam and gushes water. The specifics of how it works and what it does are stubbornly obscure from within as well as without. In that regard, it’s a bit like investment banking.
Bear with the comparison. Provided you’re willing to risk a few unaided leaps of logic, it does eventually make a surprising amount of…
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