Writings

The Brighton Laboratory: The House Project

May 23rd, 2014 by

Housing, especially here in the south east, is currently a national obsession. The premise of The House Project, which draws together sociological and economic research about housing use in Brighton with drama, feels not only timely but almost pathologically compelling. An estate agents’ tour of the sort of grand old villa in Brighton that these […]

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Brian Lobel: Mourning Glory Part 2: Purge

May 23rd, 2014 by

We take our seats in the theatre and there on stage, behind a table with his laptop, is Brian Lobel. Above and behind him is a projection screen. Large white seconds count down one minute. Three years ago, during 50 maniacal hours spanned over five days, he played a brutal game of Facebook friendship maintenance, […]

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Zoo: Enhanced Dance to Disguised Music

May 23rd, 2014 by

Zoo is the company of Swiss choreographer, dancer and performance maker Thomas Hauert, here in collaboration with four other European artists. Enhanced Dance to Disguised Music is a highly conceptual piece for the over-fives, matching the playful disjunction of John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (1946-8) with a dancer similarly encumbered by a changing […]

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Circus Feria Musica Sinue photo Victor Frankowski

Circus Feria Musica: Sinué

May 23rd, 2014 by

Green, ochre and violet washes of light and blurry images of leaves and branches projected onto the back wall. Shadows of crouched figures poised high and low in a metal ‘tree’. A forest of ropes slung every which way across each other, with one straight-standing pole at the back. A hurdy-gurdy man with an arsenal […]

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Greg Wohead - The Ted Bundy Project - Photo Rod Farry

Greg Wohead: The Ted Bundy Project

May 22nd, 2014 by

Taking as his starting point the confession tapes of Ted Bundy, Greg Wohead examines our glib fascination with the narratives of murder. That we have an appetite for stories of human cruelty and horror is evidenced by a brief look at the contents of any newspaper. Murder, sexual abuse, catastrophes and suffering make up the […]

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