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vesalius: In Paradisum
It’s rare to get a good team shot out of the mid-thickets of production but here’s a wonderful capture of the Vesalius crew, wrapping up what was a fantastic week of realising the show at RiAus. There have been some terrific responses – even suggestions of award nominations – and I leave in no doubt […]
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vesalius: SA StateLine
Here’s a link to ABC’s StateLine feature on Vesalius – a Requiem, broadcast last night. The show had its official Australian premiere on thursday evening (3rd June), with a post-show launching of Various People. Board chair, Pauline Brooks, introduced company patron Anthony Steel, (former director of the Adelaide Festival), who described the show as “uncompromising, […]
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vesalius: pre-preview
Vesalius previews this evening at Riaus. The show is sold out tonight and tomorrow (thurs), with tickets disappearing fast for the remaining five performances. The show will feature on ABC’s StateLine on friday evening. ABC’s Paul Klaric interviews composer/performer Richard Chew in his scrubs. Director Cheryl Pickering awaits her turn in front of the camera. […]
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Vesalius: rehearsals, week two
Energy and excitement as we launch into production weekend, with the Various People team at full stretch – whether in the construction of an auditorium for the space at RiAus, the finalisation of backing tracks (I can hear man Chew tapping away furiously at the keyboard in his basement cave), Choir rehearsals, Lighting/Technical plot, or […]
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Tags: cheryl pickering, diwani oak, RiAus, richard chew, various people, vesalius
Vesalius: an incomplete jigsaw
We’re piecing together Vesalius – a Requiem, from fragments – scratchy video excerpts, musical manuscript, leftover props, pamphlets and notebooks; photos taken by Martin in the police mortuary in Southwark, typed-out texts from Alan, scribbled texts from me… …and memories. Memories which often contradict or fail. There was no single clean documentation of a performance, […]
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aldgate east
Some places remain undeniable hotspots for the culturati, and a visit to E1. is a rare treat, bringing back great memories of events and encounters. It was after a visit to The Whitechapel Gallery in the spring of 1991 that James and I first conjured the idea or forming a new theatre company. The crucial […]
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images of the ziggurat
The Digbeth Ziggurat: a performance lecture with 72 housebricks. …where the canal crosses the dregs of the river, at the heart of the old town, there is a steep bank of industrial detritus resembling the wall of some ancient iron-age fort. I stumble through a break in the dilapidated fencing, clamber up to the top… and […]
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The time for secrets is over. Today we split the heart sac. In this small room we unpack the hidden things, set free the stopped voices, the sins kept silent, the shut breath. Here, at the terminus, nothing matters. (words by Alan Hay, photo by Martin Crook) Vesalius – a Requiem was the first music-theatre […]
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shelf life: images
Photographer Neil Harrison’s posts his documentation of Shelf Life, a two-day investigation/performance with Talking Birds and MA(Interdisciplinary Arts) students in the abandoned Old Library at Queen’s University, Belfast. (link to Neil’s pictures) Shelf Life was the penultimate in a series of ‘Adventures in Interdisciplinarity‘, in which practitioners from different disciplines were invited to collaborate with students – […]
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the launching of the ziggurat
Pilotnight @ AEHarris last night, co-piloted by Kindle – and an opportunity to make public for the first time the idea of The Digbeth Ziggurat. Thanks to some great last minute technical support from Bungle (our intrepid sound supremo) and Rob (resident Pilot tech) the cold industrial vastness of ‘the Americas room’ took on a […]
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