Nov 23
2009
Sinead Mac Manus
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Articles, Practical Guide to Web 2.0
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…
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Nov 21
2009
Theatre in Pictures
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Audio Visual, Design, Theatre in Pictures
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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Nov 21
2009
Matt Boothman
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Participatory, Reviews
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…
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Nov 03
2009
Andrew Eglinton
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Avant Garde, Cross Disciplinary, Interviews, Shunt Collective
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…
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Oct 31
2009
Sinead Mac Manus
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Articles, Practical Guide to Web 2.0
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…
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Oct 27
2009
Mika Eglinton
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Barbican, Cross Disciplinary, Interviews, Participatory, Technology
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…
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Oct 11
2009
Stephe Harrop
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Orange Tree, Reviews
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…
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Oct 05
2009
Stephe Harrop
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Howard Barker, Reviews, Riverside Studios
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…
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Oct 02
2009
Matt Boothman
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Reviews, Royal Court, Tim Crouch
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…
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Oct 02
2009
Matt Boothman
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Reviews, Shunt Collective
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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