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- You & Your Work 9: HERE AND THERE
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Y&YW was initiated in 2007, by performance artists Sylvia Rimat and Birgit Binder, as an artist-led performance platform. It soon developed a reputation for producing and showcasing risk-t…
- Hand Made in Heaven
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Tobacco Factory Theatre Associate Dance Artists The Mark Bruce Company premier their new show Made in Heaven at the TFT on Friday 18 May as part of Mayfest. Described as a ‘savagely beautiful …
- Timothy X Atack’s musings on some Mayfest 2012 shows
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So it’s halfway through The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart, Edinburgh, August 2011. The audience are sat at large tables dotted, wedding-style, around the gothic drinking hall of the Ghilli…
- make-shift
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make-shift brokers Paula Crutchlow (UK) and Helen Varley Jamieson (NZ/Germany) met in New Zealand in Wellington's theatre scene in the mid-90s. After Paula returned to the UK in 1999 they …
- Seen those youtube teasers showing people materialising out of nowhere and walking over water? That’s these chaps, that is.
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Becca Gill and Jay Kerry are founders and artistic directors of Bristol-based Mercurial Wrestler, creating work that places the audience at the centre of the performance and create worlds thro…
- Common Wealth speaks about working from real-life testimonies for their new site-specific show Our Glass House
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Common Wealth is a political site-specific theatre company that collaborates with artists, musicians, performers, illustrators and carpenters to create events that are part-theatre, part-gig a…
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Stuart McLoughlin and Howard Coggins chat about friendship, writing & working together.
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Interview with cast members Stuart and Howard from The Six Wives of Henry VIII.
- Molly Naylor and Byron Vincent are Made Up
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Made Up is a storytelling project, this year’s Mayfest and Theatre Bristol co-comission and a unique invitation to the residents of Bristol.
Throughout March and April, posters and flyers a…
- Unfurling the archive: how do you archive a project that itself responds to the archive?
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Four photographs of a performance installation wait in an archival box, tied with red ribbon. Each photographic image represents decisions and concerns that led to their inclusion in this ecle…
- Theatre from the heart
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Neil Beddow, artistic director of acta talks about his passion for community theatre and COAST, an International Festival of Community Theatre hosted by acta March 26th-29th
