PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release LANCASTER COMPANY AWARDED NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR CULTURE IN QUARANTINE The Lancaster-based theatre company, imitating the dog, has won a prestigious, national BBC Arts and Arts Council England (ACE) commission. The company is one of just 25 across England to have been selected to create a new online […]
Here’s your invitation to join us on Friday 15th May for a special online Q&A from our Learning & Access Officer Laurence Young ‘Come and join the imitating the dog company for a special online Q+A. Hosted on Zoom, company members will open with a small talk about the work we’ve been sharing […]
It’s not like we didn’t see it coming, but in March for us in ITD, as for the rest of the world, the virus changed everything. Obviously cancelling the last week of the Night of the Living Dead™️ – Remix tour was a disappointment but in the larger scheme of things only that. At the […]
I’m Crofty, and I guess I do a lot of things with the company. As anyone who’s seen one of our shows will know, the actors can be seen doing a lot more than one might normally expect; operating cameras, moving scenery, being body-doubles and of course, performing multiple roles, acting. It’s a bit like that off […]
It’s a given that the first time you do something you’re bound to feel nervous. First times are scary. I vividly remember my first day at work: I got lost not only on my way to the theatre but inside the theatre itself. Luckily, I managed to bump into half of […]
Thought I’d start with a little glimpse into the back story which would lead to me filling the shoes of Duane Jones in Night of the Living Dead™️ – Remix. My relationship with imitating the dog began in a somewhat unconventional fashion, which at the time, I had no complaints about none at […]
PRESS RELEASE imitating the dog to stream online acclaimed production of Night of The Living Dead™ – Remix and selection of work from the last 20 years. In response to the COVID -19 restrictions, imitating the dog, one of the UK’s most original and innovative theatre companies have announced that they will be […]
In these, the strangest of times, we are all wrangling with our new realities, dealing with information which changes almost daily and most of all – working out what our place is within it all. We’ve talked and thought and talked some more and this is what we’re going to do: We […]
In Night of the Living Dead, there’s a moment when a group of scientists and an army general are besieged by reporters demanding to know what might have caused the circumstances that have driven the recently dead to rise up and devour the living (“….they’re dead flesh and dangerous”). It was interesting to read […]
MAKING ‘We knew from the outset that we had just three and a half weeks to get this show made. Under any ‘normal’ rehearsal circumstances that would be tight. But the challenges of staging our remix of this classic and much-loved zombie film were pretty stark. We had to make 6 minutes of […]