As part of Seasons for Change a UK wide cultural programme inspiring urgent and inclusive action on climate change, and as part of ITD’s ongoing commitment to tread more lightly on the planet, co-artistic director Simon Wainwright reflects on where the company is at, as we begin making a new mid-scale touring show. […]
Co-Artistic Directors of imitating the dog Andrew Quick and Pete Brooks in conversation about why the company are taking on this particular novel, at this particular time. Pete: ‘Because we have children, we’re very concerned by the future. And our concern for the future is driven by our understanding of the past. And […]
Culture Recovery Fund Success Lancashire-based digital arts company imitating the dog benefits from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund. The company, which stages theatre productions and projection-mapping works for outdoor events, will receive £37,500 from the second round of the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund, and will be among more than 2,700 recipients to […]
PRESS RELEASE Date 19 Feb 2021 For Immediate Release STREET is a new participatory project made by imitating the dog theatre company, The Brewery Arts Centre, and the people of Cumbria. 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 […]
I feel like there’s been a lot of learning going on this year, how to cope with the day-to-day changes we’ve all had to make, how to do things online you’d rather do in person, managing home schooling, understanding what on earth the government is asking us to do each week… the list seems […]
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 […]
It’s a given that the first time you do something you’re bound to feel nervous. First times are scary. I vividly remember my first day at work: I got lost not only on my way to the theatre but inside the theatre itself. Luckily, I managed to bump into half of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Day 2 By the second day of the exchange, everybody was feeling a little bit more comfortable with each other. The initial ‘nice to meet you’ barriers were down, and we were starting feel more like a group who were working collectively. This notion of belonging was also the starting point for Bradley Smith’s session […]