Time – a long time, a short time, recent times, past times. Time – a moment that never passes. The past no longer exists, the future has never existed. There is only the present moment. The present is always – this. Yet still the hands of the clock turn, still the minutes tick by, still […]
Tag Archives: Site Specific Theatre
Compagnia Dello Scompiglio: Trilogia dell’Assenza / Trilogy of Absence
June 2nd, 2013 by Dorothy Max Priordreamthinkspeak: In The Beginning Was The End
February 6th, 2013 by Beccy SmithDreamthinkspeak have developed a unique and identifiable theatrical idiom which, at its best, alchemises site, space, installation and interaction into meaning and experiences that cast new light on old classics. Before I Sleep (2010) recast The Cherry Orchard into a poignantly iconic Cooperative department store in an unloved corner of Brighton, a hugely resonant marriage […]
David Greig / National Theatre of Scotland: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart
January 31st, 2013 by Lisa WolfeAnother huge international hit for The National Theatre of Scotland (following Black Watch, Beautiful Burnout and Midsummer), I’d somehow managed to miss the initial performances and tour of Prudencia Hart – even when it was on Brighton’s Palace Pier last year. I had caught a few minutes of it at Edinburgh in 2011, and I […]
Punchdrunk: Sleep No More
January 5th, 2013 by Terry O'DonovanPunchdrunk certainly have electrified the Manhattan scene. Since opening Sleep No More in collaboration with Emursive (an elusive production company) in spring 2011, the company has been drawing audiences night after night for a dose of their trademark immersive theatrical experience in which audiences don a white mask and explore sprawling landscapes. This piece is […]
Shunt: The Architects
December 4th, 2012 by Beccy SmithShunt are innovators whose ambitious work has long worried at the definitions of audience, venue and performance, creating perfectly perplexing theatre experiences whose power to unsettle and surprise through sheer theatricality have far outstripped the company’s many aesthetic imitators. The long running and late-lamented enterprise of Shunt Vaults (lost to the murky foundations of the […]