Junior Akinola, Chair of the Board, Contact “Looking at the arts as a has whole at the moment, it’s clear that it’s one of the hardest hit areas by the pandemic. The whole ecosystem of the arts relies on collaboration and communication at its core to function most productively so with that removed it’s […]
Hannah Fox, Freelance Artist “I grew up in the 1970’s ‘on the road’ with the legendary collective of artists Welfare State International, a wild and evolving band of musicians, performers, dancers, pyrotechnicians, sculptors and writers. We lived in caravans and toured the World making work in communities, creating art and wonder, giving, teaching and […]
Andrew Quick, Co-Artistic Director, ITD “It would be an understatement to say that 2020 has been a testing year. Many of us have been touched by grief, by illness and the loneliness of isolation. Theatre activity has had to retreat from its multiple stages and find new homes in the digital, and, when possible, […]
Over to our Learning and Access Officer Laurence Young: ‘We recently completed a project working with students at the University of Salford, creating two new live graphic novels using the methods we pioneered making Airlock, our Culture in Quarantine commission. Over 6 weeks the students were led through an interdisciplinary performance process, learning how […]
Co-Writer and Director of Dr Blood’s Old Travelling Show in conversation with journalist Heather Kincaid (September 2020) When did you have the idea for Dr Blood’s Old Travelling Show? Was it just in response to lockdown or did you want to do something like this anyway? I think in some ways it […]
Here’s your invitation to join us on Thursday 8th October 11am – 12pm for a special online Zoom Q&A from our Learning and Access Officer Laurence Young. We’re back hosting another Zoom Q&A, this time all about our latest touring production Dr Blood’s Old Travelling Show. Come and join members of the company […]
Press Release Tuesday 15 September 2020 An imitating the dog and Leeds Playhouse co-production DR BLOOD’S OLD TRAVELLING SHOW Written and Directed by Andrew Quick and Pete Brooks Projection and Video Design by Simon Wainwright Design by Laura Hopkins Lighting Design by Andrew Crofts Music by James Hamilton Models by Matthew Tully […]
By Laurence Young ‘When I joined imitating the dog as Learning and Access Officer, I was fascinated by our digital magazine; what it already was, and what it could be. Starting out as a fanzine, the magazine was already acting as a kind of archive of work that has already been made, bringing to […]
My country. My house. I’m an actress and theatre educator who lives in a city called Porto Alegre, situated at the extreme south of Latin America in a country called Brasil. A very large country. And it’s common for people around the world to think it is constantly hot and sunny out […]
On #InspiringFutureTheatre Day, here’s our Learning & Access Officer Laurence Young on our recent and current programme, projects and plans: ‘We love #InspiringFutureTheatre Day! We’re dead proud of our Learning work, as it’s in the bones of the company; where we came from and what we do to inspire the next generation of makers. This […]