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My first Korean play – in Korean and my subsequent little research trail...
‘OGU’ on Saturady at the Jeju Arts Centre featured one of Korea’s most famous actresses, Kang Bu-ja. An extract from an article: The play has been seen by some 2.6 million people since its premiere....
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US hospitals send actors with fake Ebola symptoms into emergency rooms
Not the call you expect to get from your agent! Here’s an application of theatre: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/09/us-expand-ebola-precautions-dallas-patient-death
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Verbatim meets Dance
Verbatim meets Dance in DV8’s new show ‘John’. http://dv8.co.uk/projects/current/john Death, drugs and survival: DV8 Physical Theatre tells the story of John Lloyd Newson’s latest production uses...
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Director’s Notebook
“…recognise that all plays, even the most famous ones, are simply a suggestion for a performance, not a template for one that must be reproduced slavishly.” Lyn Gardner, Guardian Theatre Blog Great...
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Shakespeare on demand
The Globe in London is going digitally global! The Globe began filming its productions in 2009. Rentals cost up to £4 and it costs £8 to buy a download. http://www.globeplayer.tv/ Quick Shakespeare quiz?
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Immersive Theatre – on a train
Should immersive theatre audiences accept greater responsibility? Lyn Gardner writes about her experience when she saw Bordergame… There was a moment during National Theatre Wales’s Bordergame when the...
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Cool project – mini new works inspired by journalism – responding in the NOW
Microplays – project by The Royal Court and The Guardian New pieces inspired by current affairs happening now – a true Theatre/Film crossover. Here’s the first one: Britain Isn’t Eating
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We are doing this next year
Celebrating Joan Littlewood: it’s time to build her fun palaces The trailblazing director wanted to create cultural spaces across the UK. In 2014, her centenary year, you can make it happen Hats off to...
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History of Puppetry in Britain
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/h/history-of-puppetry-in-britain/
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Just stumbled across this company specializing in LIVING HISTORY
in their words: the Lions part is an eclectic company of like-minded professional performers who collaborate to create seasonal festivals, plays and theatre pieces that transform public and community...
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And just when we’re doing the PPP. Perfect timing!
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2015/jan/31/stunning-stage-designs-from-around-the-world-in-pictures
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Acting Like Animals – A collection of bits inspired by current work in the...
So copying animals – what’s that about – apart from fun? extract from: http://www.jstor.org – Actor Training in the Neutral Mask, Author(s): Sears A. Eldredge and Hollis W. Huston. Source: The Drama...
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Es Devlin – Designer extraordinaire
She has done some amazing stuff for Theatre but she has also created work for U2 and Loius Vuitton and Kanye West and Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga and Take That!!! See this article:...
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Improv and Invisible Theatre
G11 came to the aid of Grade 3 teachers today. Teachers wanted a provocation for their PYP unit on Peace and Conflict – a performed argument which would generate conversation and debate in the students...
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Copy-Transform-Combine – Some recent words from Anne Bogart:
Interesting – when thinking the Collaborative Project…. The task of an artist, much like that of a scientist, is to re-combine or edit existing materials in order to create something new. Ideas are...
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Bowie’s contribution to Theatre
The late artist’s unique stage legacy includes a Broadway turn in ‘The Elephant Man,’ rock concerts famed for their blazing theatricality and the recent sui generis musical, ‘Lazarus.’ From his...
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Alan Rickman ‘very much a man of the theatre’
For all his later fame as the creepy Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies, Alan Rickman was very much a man of the theatre…[I]f ever an actor looked back in languor, it was Rickman....
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Lighting’s gone more digital – obviously
Techniques such as light or pixel mapping are all the rage – see The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYDFdY3IZBM Basic tutorial...
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