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 […]
Reading something that Maddy Costa wrote about her kids asking if spaces where they’d seen shows at BAC were ok really stayed with me over the last few days since the horrible news about the fire engulfing much of building came to my attention courtesy of Twitter late afternoon on Friday. I was also […]
ISTANBUL FEB 7 2145 Pete, Andrew and I left Batumi today STOP show we saw last night went brilliantly STOP Will reports that tonight’s third and final preview performance went even better STOP huge congratulations to the company especially to director Goga Tavadze STOP M
As my colleagues, clearly intimidated by having to follow in my footsteps, refuse to write today’s blog and as some of you out there will be interested to hear how it all went last night, I’ve decided to write an additional Black Sea Blog. A final chapter. Tomorrow we have no commitments […]
It’s show day. We finished late last night and started again early this morning. It’s certainly been hard work; we’ve done 10 consecutive 12-14 hour days, and Will has frequently worked on in the hotel after we’ve finished at the theatre. But all good things must come to an end, and barring last […]
Thirty hours to go until we open and we’re feeling reasonably confident. There was a run last night which was much better than the previous one, and really now it’s just a case of ticking off problems. We have minor issues in almost all areas but none are show stoppers, and we are working […]