Sitting in Jakarta airport waiting to fly across to Makassar on Sulawesi (where the Indonesian leg of the tour kicks off), here’s some thoughts from the company on international touring and how Nocturnes is going so far: Q: Best thing about being in Hong Kong, performing at the Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage & […]
My name is Reggie Doherty and I am a costume designer, artist and costumier who worked on the wardrobe for Nocturnes. I joined the team whilst they were working on the filming aspect of the piece in Lancaster. It did not take long for me to be drawn in to this fascinating world that imitating […]
The briefest of blogs post-Edinburgh Festival British Council Showcase 2017 to say a huge thank you to everyone, from the audiences that made it a sell-out run to the whole team at ZOO Venues and at the British Council for such an enjoyable, colourful, heartening, full-throttle, never-to-be-forgotten week. We won an award for goodness sake! […]
We’ve very recently completed a research and development period at Theatre by the Lake in Keswick and at Lancaster Arts at Lancaster University (formerly LICA) on what will be our next show Nocturnes which has been on the back burner now for a while, simmering away quietly. Needless to say, the scenery in Keswick especially […]
Writing this in the hiatus between the first of the UK dates for The Train, having opened the show at Lancaster Arts at Lancaster University. The Nuffield Theatre is the closest we come to having a spiritual home I reckon and there’s always a sense that one can almost smell the blood, sweat, tears and […]
Writing the textual material for an imitating the dog show is never an easy task. Often we start off with a concrete idea and then as we begin to get to grips with the actual scenography everything that we held on to so dearly suddenly slips away and we end up re-working and re-writing at […]
Having taken A Farewell to Arms to Teatro delle Muse in Ancona in December 2014 and on a short Italian tour thereafter, we began a conversation with the very good people of Marche Teatro about working on a new performance piece together. The scenographic idea for The Train or Il Treno is one that has […]
Well there’s a LOT happening on the plotting front at least in ITD Towers and we’re very excited about the projects we’ve got coming up – some a bit more under wraps than others for now to be honest but here’s a wee bit about what we’ve got coming up over the next few […]
Reading something that Maddy Costa wrote about her kids asking if spaces where they’d seen shows at BAC were ok really stayed with me over the last few days since the horrible news about the fire engulfing much of building came to my attention courtesy of Twitter late afternoon on Friday. I was also […]
ISTANBUL FEB 7 2145 Pete, Andrew and I left Batumi today STOP show we saw last night went brilliantly STOP Will reports that tonight’s third and final preview performance went even better STOP huge congratulations to the company especially to director Goga Tavadze STOP M