A woman weeps. There is a piano and a pile of firewood and a video projection of trees in the snow. The woman leads us to another space. The woman weeps some more and sighs. The woman sighs some more and takes books from a trunk and clutches them to her chest, then spreads them […]
Writings
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Burn the Curtain: The Company of Wolves
May 15th, 2015 by Isobel SmithHungry for adventure, it was a relief to leave the bright efficiency of the box office tent, and side-step into the dusky Stanmer village church yard where dark figures had been lurking and another reality within the familiar setting of Stanmer Park (a country park just outside of Brighton) awaited. The Company of Wolves, Shiona […]
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Mabou Mines: Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth by Day
May 13th, 2015 by Dorothy Max Prior‘Bad news – I’m dead.’ says Lucia Joyce. Viewed by the world as the mad daughter of the genius writer James Joyce, Lucia is here to tell us her version of her life story, as we watch her moving from earthly existence to afterlife – a true bardo of becoming. The scenography of the piece […]
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Fuel/Inua Ellams/Benji Reid: The Spalding Suite
May 13th, 2015 by Dorothy Max PriorA theatre show about boys playing basketball: I’m not drawn to the subject, but I like previous work by performance poet and writer Inua Ellams and physical theatre director Benji Reid (who haven’t to my knowledge previously collaborated), and I’m interested to see what they’ll do together. I leave the theatre on a high, delighted […]
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Burn Baby Burn: Periplum’s 451
May 11th, 2015 by Dorothy Max PriorIt’s 8.30pm on a cool and breezy, but thankfully dry, evening in April. A crowd is gathering in the grounds of Shaw House in Berkshire. The house itself is an Elizabethan mansion, providing a moody backdrop to the cluster of structures standing in the gardens. Furthest away from the house is a grouping of tall […]