Over to Laura Atherton, one of our new cohort of Associate Practitioners 2021, as she explains more about her work and her involvement with ITD: ‘I remember travelling to my audition for imitating the dog. It was 2007, I was 21 and the short train journey from Wigan to Lancaster was spent nervously going […]
imitating the dog is over twenty years old now and we haven’t really celebrated the milestones that have marked the company’s evolution; ten years, twenty years etc. We’re not so good at this kind of thing, maybe because we’re slightly embarrassed about our longevity, or wary of public displays of affection, or maybe, we’re […]
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 […]
02 July 2020 Rt Hon Oliver Dowden CBE MP Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport 100 Parliament Street London SW1A 2BQ Dear Oliver Dowden We write to you today with urgency as the theatre and performing arts industry faces a critical moment. All around us is the news of our regional theatres and performance […]
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release LANCASTER COMPANY AWARDED NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR CULTURE IN QUARANTINE The Lancaster-based theatre company, imitating the dog, has won a prestigious, national BBC Arts and Arts Council England (ACE) commission. The company is one of just 25 across England to have been selected to create a new online […]