Media release – for immediate distribution New chapter for imitating the dog First Executive Director and board of trustees appointed as world-renowned theatre company secures regular funding from Arts Council England. imitating the dog (ITD) theatre company is delighted to announce the appointment of its first Executive Director and the forming of its first board of […]
Someone somewhere in an ITD meeting recently decided that it would my responsibility next to write something for the blog. ‘The April Blog’ it’s been called in emails and I guess it’s significant or at least symbolic because it’s the first blog produced by us as a National Portfolio Organisation. National Portfolio Organisation, NPO, what […]
We’re looking for a Treasurer to join our Board of Trustees. The advert is below, if you’re interested then please get in touch with Julie, email below. Makers of world class theatre and digital performance Board Member (Treasurer) Sought imitating the dog (ITD) is at an exciting stage in its development. The company, which makes cutting edge […]
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 […]