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 […]
Board Member Sought imitating the dog (ITD) makes cutting edge theatre, site-specific digital projection and education programmes. The company is based on the Northwest and joined Arts Council England’s National Portfolio in 2018. The company has an established board led by David Dolan Martin as Chair. We now have an opportunity for an additional person […]
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 […]