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Find out interesting facts about the famous playwright, William Shakespeare.

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Filumena Marturano: my favorite theatrical play

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The trained imagination of the theatre can be used for serving humanity in more ways than entertaining

Rachel Crothers, founder of the American Theatre Wing

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Working In The Theatre explores the visceral experience of Immersive Theatre.

Working in the Theatre shares the stories of the people that make theatre great and provides our audience with the most comprehensive and in-depth conversations, interviews, and resources about American theatre anywhere online. 

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Immersive theatre is discernible as that practice which actually allows you to be in ‘the playing area’ with the performers, physically interacting with them. This can extend to sensual engagement via a clever use of intimate sounds in headphones, despite the action being geographically separate from you. The direct participation of the audience member in the work ensures she or he who inhabits the immersive world created. This live(d), praesent experience, the participant’s physical body responding within an imaginative environment, is a pivotal element of an immersive experience and a defining feature of immersive theatre

Josephine Machon

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Immersive Theatre

In an immersive theatre production, there is interaction with the audience, who play a role, whether that is the role of witness or the role of an actual character. Audience are part of the story. They can be moving in the space. There are no barriers between audience and performers.

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Hetain uses the perspective of the personal story to inspire universal empathy, and in initial conversations it is clear that Candoco’s diverse group of dancers strikes a resonating cord with his interest in the people in front of him. Engaging and endearing, questioning and reflective, we are certain that Hetain’s commission will bring out the individual dancers in a way our audiences have not seen before.

Candoco Co-Artistic Director Stine Nilsen

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“Who am I? Think again.” -Hetain Patel

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Hetain Patel

He is an artist based in London. He make live performances and also sculptures, videos and photographs. He usually make them for galleries and theatres but they’re appeared also on websites, on television and printed on walls’ of public places.

“I am interested in connecting marginalised identities with the mainstream in an effort to destabilise notions of authenticity and promote personal freedom. With an autobiographical starting point I use humour and the languages of popular culture to highlight familiarity within the exotic, recognition within the unknown. In my work this often involves exploring fantasy through a DIY domestic lens.” -Hetain Patel

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“Oedipus Tyrannus” by Sophocles. 28th of January 2015, Cyprus.

Scene 018, a theatrical team in Cyprus presented the new version of the tragedy “Oedipus Rex”. A new approach of Sophocles’ myth.

Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus, or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles. King Oedipus of Thebes sends his brother-in-law Creon to identify the cause of the mysterious plague that has struck the city. Creon reports that the plague will be lifted if the man who killed the former king, Laius, is brought to justice.

A messenger and a servant confirm the tale. Jocasta hangs herself out of shame. Oedipus discovers her body and uses the pins of her brooches to stab out his own eyes.Queen Jocasta doesn't believe Tiresias when he says Oedipus is the murderer. Once, an oracle told her that her husband would be killed by their child, and because (she thinks) that hasn't come true, she doesn't believe Tiresias.To prevent her child from killing her husband, Jocasta left the baby to die on the side of the road. Oedipus suspects that he was that abandoned baby. When he first came to Thebes, he met and killed a man on the road who turned out to be Lauis, his father. He then met and married the widowed Jocasta, his own mother. A messenger and a servant confirm the tale. Jocasta hangs herself out of shame. Oedipus discovers her body and uses the pins of her brooches to stab out his own eyes.

Four actors, of the theatrical team “Scene 018″, decided to staged “Oedipus Rex” in a modern way, companied the story with society’s issues and concerns of today and through a tumultuous conflict of the body and the emotions, invent new theatrical forms.

There was something that caught my eye in the production. The actors in the beginning of the performance come up on the stage with boxes on their head covering their faces. That was a metaphor of people who are blind and can’t “see” the society’s issues companied with Oedipus’ blindness after he stabed out his own eyes.

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Truly truthful acting makes us sit up and pay attention; truthful acting turns us hot and cold, makes us sweat, makes us blush, makes us gasp, makes our stomachs churn, makes us hold our breath, makes us laugh with joy, gives us a sudden, intense sense of breathing sharp clean air, of being thrillingly alive and in touch with our humanity.

Mike Alfreds (Different Every Night: Freeing the Actor)

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Look at me know Mummy, is a comi-tragic one-woman show created with long-term Polish collaborator Aurora Lubos, eight months after giving birth to her first child.

‘Lubos captures the exhausted, surreal derangement that comes from being a new mother… It’s superb performances such as these, as well as Vincent’s own choreography, that have ensured the company’s survival’ Judith Mackrell, The Guardian

Vincent Dance Theatre is a dance theatre work, which creates extensive programmes of social engagement and professional development work. Founded in 1994 and led by artistic director Charlotte Vincent.

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Durational Performance

“A durational performance is one where an audience and the performers go on a journey together over a sustained period of time” -D. Hutton

Durational performance is a form through which time is manifested in its original (natural) purity and brought to the forefront as pivotal to the experience. The performance is composed so that time, as the essential theme of the piece, physically affects and mentally transforms the performer, the audience, and the space.

Forced Entertainment, as I previously said, they make work in theatre and performance, and some of the projects they make are durational performances.

From the dark

Quiozoola

Marathon Lexicon

12am: Awake and looking down

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If Shakespeare characters had dated:

Othello’s and Desdemona’s first date:

Started of very well, but only lasted about an hour. While Desdemona was quickly using the restroom., Iago, who “happened” to be at the same restaurant too, pointed out Othello, that it was just outrageous how Desdemona flirted with the waiter. When the waiter came to collect the order an ugly scene ensued. Desdemona shared  a taxi with Emilia who left early too after a row with her husband.

Hamlet and Ophelia:

Ophelia left exasperatedly after Hamlet had not been able to decide which starter he would like to have after she had already finished her four course meal. She decided that a date with the prince really wasn’t worth skipping her swimming classes.

Beatrice and Benedick:

A concerned waiter offered to help mediate in their dispute, only to gain two surprised glances and to be informed that they weren’t arguingat all and that he kindly should not Interrupt their date.

Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Winsdor:

Falstaff received adoring, ardent, passionate replies to his many invitations (no less than he expected), but strangely enough the only one who showed up was Master Ford…. (btw the ladies had a faboulous Pride and Prejudice film night at the Ford’s, sigh Darcy with wet shirt…)

Antonio and Sebastian, Sebastian and Olivia:

Antionio had scraped his Money together to invite Sebastian to this really fancy restaurant. However, when Seabstian arrived, Olivia caught sight  of him as he entered the restaurant and asked him to sit with her in her private room. Antonio spent the evening watching the door, noticing a man in alarmingly yellow socks doing the same, drinking a lonely bottle of wine.

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History is not dry facts and dates, but a fabulous dramatic story that makes for great theater.

Wendy Jones