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Posted in performance, theatre on Oct 22nd, 2009
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Stage & Screen 6
Posted in 'Ghostbusters', 'Synecdoche New York', 'The Truman Show', paranoia, simulation, theatre, war on Jun 14th, 2009
This is the final post in a series that begins below with ‘Stage & Screen 1′
In ‘The Truman Show’ (1998) Truman Burbank is the unwitting star of a hugely successful documentary TV show based on his life. The show runs continuously, following Truman from the moment of his birth into adulthood. Truman is completely unaware [...]
Hooray
Posted in Globe Theatre, Shakespeare, depression, theatre on May 28th, 2008
quotes in this post are taken from company websites
Feels like ages since I last dissed Shakespeare. As ardent readers of this journal may have noticed, I have no time for the fellow and consider him directly responsible for the complacently novelistic condition of much British mainstream theatre. (Yes, I know it doesn’t follow but [...]
Lots: Episode 3
Posted in Lumiere & Son, theatre on Feb 9th, 2008
This post is in a series: please start at Episode 1
Let my imagination go. Uhuh. Roger was very likeable and I was flattered by his view that the eccentric work of Lumiere & Son - or something like it - would be viable in the centricity of BBCTV. I would pull out all the stops [...]
Lots: Episode I
Posted in 'Lots', Lumiere & Son, theatre on Feb 8th, 2008
I’m in the front room of Hilary’s old house, which she is probably going to sell. All around the walls, on shelves, in boxes, cabinets and crates she has stashed a great archive of the papers of Lumiere & Son, the theatre company we ran together from 1972 to 1992 when the still Thatcherised Arts [...]
I shall carry the images to my grave. In one of the two shows I’ve written and directed for presentation at Wimbledon College of Art this week (previewed here), the designers proposed a set, described in the playlet text here, the walls of which were built to be leaped through. Large, thin, rectangular sheets of [...]
I, Healer
Posted in discontinuity, narrative, theatre on Dec 11th, 2007
It’s that time of year when I write two plays in four days and rehearse each one for eight hours. This is the annual performance project at Wimbledon College of Art, where I teach, from time to time, in the Theatre School, which delivers one of the most respected theatre and screen design courses in [...]