Heart of Darkness as an idea for a show had been in the mix for some time. In previous pieces we’d made the novella’s narrative and themes had come up again and again in rehearsals. And of course, Pete and I had been hugely affected by Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, his reworking of Conrad’s […]
ENJOY AN ELECTRIFYING EXPERIENCE The atmosphere will be electric when visitors to Lancaster’s Storey Gallery are invited to take a journey through time this November. Lancashire Electric will see rare archive footage from a century of life in the county projected into the gallery from November 1-7. Lancashire Electric gives an air of nostalgia […]
We first started talking about the ideas behind Nocturnes in earnest in 2016 as the world was becoming an increasingly confusing place where one could, at times, be forgiven for wondering if what was happening was in fact real. I’d wake up wondering if I’d dreamt yesterday’s news stories. Because, naturally, the news was […]
An imitating the dog and Leeds Playhouse co-production NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD ™ – REMIX Directed by Andrew Quick and Pete Brooks Projection and Video Designs by Simon Wainwright Design by Laura Hopkins Lighting Design by Andrew Crofts Original music composed by James Hamilton NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD ™ – REMIX is presented by […]
Our 2014 tour of A Farewell to Arms had been a big success. However, the size of the set meant that we couldn’t take it to many of the smaller studio venues which had up until that time been at the core of our touring circuit. A strategic decision was made, to make next a […]
ITD has chosen, over the years, to only take a show to Edinburgh if we’re successful in submitting work to be selected to be part of the British Council Showcase. This showcase provides a brilliant opportunity to have your work seen by international delegates, including programmers and festival bookers from all over the world. It’s […]
Ruinous Theatre ‘It is no accident that Terry Gilliam’s time traveling hero James Cole finds himself holed up in a disused theatre in his gloriously flawed film, Twelve Monkeys (1995). In a movie about the mutating possibilities of time travel set against the context of global catastrophe the scenes in the dilapidated Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera […]
The decision to adapt Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms came about for a number of reasons, the most important of which was a shared admiration among us for the novel. In fact, Soul Sister a musical which I’d co-written a few years earlier (and which was nominated for an Olivier award in 2012) contained […]
6 Degrees Below the Horizon had a very turbulent birth. It started life as a British Council project called Tales from the Bar of Lost Souls, a collaboration between three countries and three artistic groups: imitating the dog, The National Theatre of Greece and The Cyprus Theatre Organisation. We decamped to Athens for a month […]
Day 2 By the second day of the exchange, everybody was feeling a little bit more comfortable with each other. The initial ‘nice to meet you’ barriers were down, and we were starting feel more like a group who were working collectively. This notion of belonging was also the starting point for Bradley Smith’s session […]