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Participatory & Interactive

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A Thousand Shards of Glass by the Jane Packman Company

1 May 2013

in Directors, Participatory & Interactive, Political theatre, Regional Theatre

INTERVIEW: JANE PACKMAN COMPANY Director Jane Packman, writer Ben Pacey and performer Lucy Ellinson talk to Diana Damian about their surround sound action adventure show A Thousand Shards Of Glass, dystopias, political theatre, graphic novels, Bourne films and insurrectionist texts. The show is currently touring the UK.

How to play Money: The Gameshow — and survive the experience

20 February 2013

in Actors and Performers, Directors, Participatory & Interactive, Playwrights, Political theatre

INTERVIEW: CLARE DUFFY, LUCY ELLINSON and BRIAN FERGUSON The writer/director and performers of Money: The Game Show, produced by Unlimited Theatre and currently at the Bush Theatre, speak to Ella Parry-Davies. The show is an interactive piece about the human cost of financial crisis, and features £10 000 in real pound coins on stage, asking the participants to bet and hedge the futures of the characters.

The importance of play: HalfCut discuss Shelf-Life

7 November 2012

in Actors and Performers, London Fringe, Participatory & Interactive, Site Specific

INTERVIEW: HALFCUT Dan Ball and Joe Iredale, two-thirds (with Astor Agustsson) of experimental theatre company HalfCut, tell Sophie Reynolds about Shelf-Life, their immersive, interactive, promenade piece which takes over all five storeys of Theatre Delicatessen, Marylebone Gardens, and fills the building with sand, balloons, pop-up show homes and unexpected deaths.

Teatro Vivo’s interactive and site-specific Odyssey travels across south London

6 September 2012

in Directors, Greek Drama, London Fringe, Participatory & Interactive, Site Specific

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INTERVIEW: SOPHIE AUSTIN The artistic director of Teatro Vivo tells Sophie Reynolds about the company’s latest production – an interactive, promenade performance of The Odyssey, which asks its audience to join the characters on a quest to find the long-lost Odysseus, starting at the Albany Theatre in Lewisham.

Lebanese director Lucien Bourjeily on an arresting 66 Minutes in Damascus

7 July 2012

in Directors, International, Participatory & Interactive, Political theatre, Site Specific

INTERVIEW: LUCIEN BOURJEILY The innovative director talks to Matt Trueman about his interactive and immersive LIFT production 66 Minutes in Damascus, which subjects its audience to a simulated arrest and detention at the hands of the Syrian regime. He also speaks about evading censorship in Lebanon and the ethics and politics of immersive theatre, especially its relationship to thrill and memory.

Uninvited Guests on their interactive Make Better Please

28 May 2012

in Directors, Live Art, Participatory & Interactive, Political theatre

INTERVIEW: RICHARD DUFTY and PAUL CLARKE The co-artistic directors of Uninvited Guests talk to Matt Trueman about their latest show, Make Better Please, which — under the slogan of “We will make things better!” — involves the audience in the news stories of the day and exorcises their demons.

Hamish Jenkinson travels deep into the Old Vic Tunnels

25 May 2012

in Directors, Participatory & Interactive, Theatre buildings

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INTERVIEW: HAMISH JENKINSON The Director of the Old Vic Tunnels tells Sophie Reynolds about how this extraordinary performance space underneath Waterloo Station was discovered, and the way in which it allows the Old Vic Theatre to try out more experimental work.

A new radical spin on The Odyssey in Oxford

7 April 2012

in Actors and Performers, Greek Drama, Participatory & Interactive, Regional Theatre, Site Specific

INTERVIEW: MADELEINE HYLAND and JAMES ERSKINE A performer with The Factory and the executive director of Creation Theatre talk to Ella Parry-Davies about a new collaboration between the two companies, a staging of Homer’s The Odyssey, directed by Tim Carroll, performed in the Norrington Room in Blackwell’s Bookshop, Broad Street, Oxford, until 28 April.

A new season of adventurous events at the Camden People’s Theatre

22 February 2012

in Directors, Live Art, London Fringe, Participatory & Interactive, Physical and Visual theatre

INTERVIEW: BRIAN LOGAN and JENNY PATON The new co-directors of the Camden People’s Theatre introduce Aleks Sierz to the wonderful world of experimental theatre which goes beyond boundaries with news of the venue’s annual Sprint Festival, and details of some other upcoming productions.

Debate: the most controversial play in London

13 December 2011

in Directors, Participatory & Interactive, Reviews and Roundtables

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DEBATE: HAS THEATRE GONE TOO FAR? Panel discussion chaired by Paul Warwick of China Plate Theatre with participants Steve Marmion (Artistic Director Soho Theatre), Simon Stokes (Artistic Director Theatre Royal Plymouth), David Jubb (Artistic Director BAC), Joe Murphy (Artistic Director Nabokov) and Laura Barnett (journalist) about Ontroerend Goed’s Audience (currently at the Soho Theatre).

Lois Keidan and Gavin Butt explore Performance Matters

28 October 2011

in Directors, Live Art, London Fringe, Participatory & Interactive, Physical and Visual theatre

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INTERVIEW: LOIS KEIDAN and GAVIN BUTT The Director of the Live Art Development Agency and the Reader in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, talk to Diana Damian about Trashing Performance (25-30 October), an international programme of live art events and discussions, co-directed by Butt.

Get in the Back of the Van’s External, a theatrical response to Internal

19 September 2011

in Actors and Performers, London Fringe, Participatory & Interactive, Physical and Visual theatre

INTERVIEW: HESTER CHILLINGWORTH, LUCY McCORMICK and JENNIFER PICK Theatre group Get in the Back of the Van talk to Diana Damian about their piece, External (Soho Theatre and touring), which interrogates notions of authenticity and performance in an experimental way.

Interactivity in the Age of the Audience (pt1)

19 August 2011

in Participatory & Interactive

Interactivity in the Age of the Audience (part 1)

Panel discussion held by non zero one at Forest Fringe, Edinburgh, 18-08-2011.

Chair: Cat Harrison (non zero one). Panellists: Alex Fleetwood (founder/director, Hide & Seek); Harun Morrison (producer, Lundahl & Seitl); John Hunter (artist and co-founder, non zero one); Lyn Gardner (critic, The Guardian); Mark Daniels (executive director, New Media Scotland); Matt Adams (artist and co-founder, Blast Theory). Recorded by Dominic Cavendish (twitter @domcavendish).

Interactivity in the Age of the Audience (pt2)

19 August 2011

in Participatory & Interactive

Interactivity in the Age of the Audience (part 2)

Panel discussion held by non zero one at Forest Fringe, Edinburgh, 18-08-2011.

Chair: Cat Harrison (non zero one). Panellists: Alex Fleetwood (founder/director, Hide & Seek); Harun Morrison (producer, Lundahl & Seitl); John Hunter (artist and co-founder, non zero one); Lyn Gardner (critic, The Guardian); Mark Daniels (executive director, New Media Scotland); Matt Adams (artist and co-founder, Blast Theory). Recorded by Dominic Cavendish (twitter @domcavendish).

Interactivity in the Age of the Audience (pt3)

19 August 2011

in Participatory & Interactive

Interactivity in the Age of the Audience (part 3)

Panel discussion held by non zero one at Forest Fringe, Edinburgh, 18-08-2011.

Chair: Cat Harrison (non zero one). Panellists: Alex Fleetwood (founder/director, Hide & Seek); Harun Morrison (producer, Lundahl & Seitl); John Hunter (artist and co-founder, non zero one); Lyn Gardner (critic, The Guardian); Mark Daniels (executive director, New Media Scotland); Matt Adams (artist and co-founder, Blast Theory). Recorded by Dominic Cavendish (twitter @domcavendish).

Edinburgh Fringe 2011: Producer Richard Jordan

17 August 2011

in Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, Participatory & Interactive, Producers

EDINBURGH FRINGE 2011 Producer Richard Jordan discusses the joys and woes of two popular genres on the Edinburgh Fringe, on-on-one theatre and solo shows with Philip Fisher and offers some tips on getting them right. Jordan has produced and co-produced more than 55 plays for the stage – he is also one of the UK’s youngest producers, born in 1974.