‘What is a memorial device? Is it like a pocket watch that you’ve inherited? Is it like a gravestone? Or is it more like a dictaphone – a dictaphone where you can record your memories? Is it like a marker in the sand? What is a memorial device?’ This is Ross Raymond speaking. He’s invited […]
Writings
This Is Memorial Device: A Portal Into Our Collective Musical Memories
April 21st, 2024 by Dorothy Max PriorDo Come with the Chablis Soon
November 29th, 2023 by Dorothy Max PriorAn appreciation of Penny Francis, MBE who died in June 2023. Dorothy Max Prior and a host of other friends, former students, and colleagues from the world of puppetry and visual theatre tell us what the incorrigible Doyenne of Puppetry meant to them. We have lost our Queen! Dear Penny Francis has left the building. […]
Sounds and Visions
October 3rd, 2023 by Dorothy Max PriorA round-up of Out There Festival 2023 which brought good cheer and top-notch physical, visual and musical performance to the streets, parks and seafront of Great Yarmouth. Dorothy Max Prior reports It’s 11am on a sunny Saturday in September, and here we are, in St George’s Park in Yarmouth, sitting at a cafe drinking a […]
The Streets are Alive…
September 5th, 2023 by Dorothy Max Prior… with the Sound of Music! Dorothy Max Prior previews the Out There Festival 2023, which brings a wealth of physical, visual and aural delights to the streets, parks and beaches of Great Yarmouth It’s almost time for Out There International Festival of Outdoor Arts and Circus, which takes place annually in Great Yarmouth, a […]
Nuggets – Edinburgh Festival & Fringe Round-Up 2023
August 18th, 2023 by Dorothy Max PriorCurated programmes, trusted venues, familiar artists and producers – Dorothy Max Prior plays it safe at the Edinburgh Festivals 2023 Edinburgh, August 2023. I’m standing in a queue (inevitably) waiting to go into the Main Hall at Summerhall to see a sold-out show – Laura Murphy’s Making a Spectacle of Herself. ‘It feels like we’re […]