PRESS RELEASE Date 28th January 2020 For Immediate Release STREET A new participatory project made by Brewery Arts Centre, imitating the dog theatre company, Highlights Rural Touring and YOU! STREET is one of 40 new projects taking place in and around 40 arts centres as part of Here and Now, a national and local […]
ITD have made a commitment at board level to reduce our carbon footprint. Last year, we totted up our activities – making shows, touring, getting from A to B, you name it! – and worked out our carbon footprint. And this year, we’ve been setting about reducing that. You can read more about our findings and […]
I am currently watching seven performers rush about the stage attempting to recreate, shot for shot, scenes from George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. It’s a game of imitation, the task is relentless, unforgiving. Cameras moving swiftly across the playing space as each moment is captured while the original plays, like a kind of […]
Casting announced for the UK stage premiere of Night of the Living Dead ™ – Remix imitating the dog and Leeds Playhouse have today announced full casting for the premiere of Night of The Living Dead ™ – Remix Night of the Living Dead ™ – Remix cast will feature Laura Atherton (A Farewell To […]
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 […]
Quite without planning or prompting our sited work has become a huge part of our output over the last few years. What started off as a favour to someone to fill a gap in a local festival has become, at least for me, a significant portion of the year’s work…and a portion which is not without […]
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 […]