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Home Is Where… is finally real! After two years of collecting interviews, planning, networking, thinking, dreaming, applying, struggling to articulate what exactly this project might become, and finding the right team to create it, Hyphenated became a 9-strong ensemble with a 20-minute first stab at a brand new piece of theatre. Huge thanks to Camden…
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What do you get when you combine verbatim interviews, improvisation, movement, original music, and a group of 9 new collaborators with rich cross-culture experiences? I don’t quite know yet – we’re still making it. It’s going to be on stage in the “Whose London Is It Anyway?” festival at Camden People’s Theatre in January. (Early…
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Two years and three months ago, I moved to London and shook up my whole life. I was ready for an adventure, and boy did I ever get one. I spent a few months running around the city, seeing loads of theatre, getting to know people and companies and venues here, going to festivals in Edinburgh…
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At D&D 9 in January 2014, an annual open space conference of theatremakers, I called a session on Third Culture Kids (TCKs) and verbatim theatre, hoping to find some candidates for interviews and get started making a piece. More than a dozen people responded to my invitation, others who had grown up in a mix…
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Rift Zone at New Diorama Theatre. Night Light Theatre‘s reworking of Icelandic myth was musical, harmonic, highly visual, and touching. The story centres on a brother and sister growing up, but seems to span centuries and mythologies. Along with a simple but effective scenic design, bare lightbulbs create an atmospheric landscape, illuminating faces in caverns, swinging…
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The GAP Salon was particularly busy this month! What a blast we had at the Southbank Centre’s Women of the World Festival and the Etcetera Theatre’s first annual Womens’ Week! WOW Party at the Southbank Centre. GAP Salon partnered with Female Arts and the So and So Arts Club to throw a “WOW Party” with…
AMY CLARE TASKER 