Site Specific Theatre

[superhero]

One of the hardest things to get tickets for are site specific theatre shows and they are my favourite things to attend, so I would really appreciate if anyone hears of any to post under this thread please.

Site-specific theatre definition from Wikipedia (It's hard to define!):

"Site-specific theatre is most simply defined as a performance which exists in a particular place. However, there remains a widespread debate about any more precise a definition. Some argue[who?] that any performance which takes place outside a theatre can be labeled site-specific. Other more rigorous practitioners argue that the title can only be applied to a production which has been developed in, developed from, and performed in, a specific place.
For example, if a company stages a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in a forest, is it site-specific? If one is concerned only with meeting the requirements of the basic definitions of the words "site" and "specific" then, yes, that production may be called site-specific. If that were the case though, some argue, any production could be called site-specific because it has been staged with adherence to the physical limitations of the space. This is why others contend that a production should meet more stringent requirements before being called site-specific. They say a production should be developed in the space and be, in some way, about the space. It should also not be able to be performed outside the space.
It is important here to distinguish between site-specific and site-generic. (A term possibly coined by Andy Field in a blog in the UK Guardian, 6/2/08[citation needed]) If a company created a play for a football pitch, and then could tour that production to any football pitch in the world, it should be called site-generic. If it created a work for a specific pitch, where they addressed the issues, people, myths, and context of that pitch - then it should be called site-specific.
In the absence of any formal association of site-specific practitioners, the definition of site-specific will remain malleable."

[Beate]

In English?

[superhero]

I'll get the ball rolling:

Taking place in Bermondsey hotel, Hotel Confessions:

"An adult and a child. A father and a stranger.
What will they confess? Why don’t they leave?
This double-bill of bewitching short plays explores the chance meeting of strangers, forced to share time, space and secrets in the intimacy of a hotel room. Come and enter their private world and hear them confess.
Hotel Confessions is tender, compelling and darkly funny. The Night in the Hotel is written by Anouke Brook after the classic short story Die Nacht im Hotel, by award-winning German writer Siegfried Lenz. Freya & Mr. Mushroom is a new play by exciting British playwright Nessah Aisha Muthy.
The Bermondsey Square Hotel is a stylish boutique hotel only 15 minutes walk from London Bridge tube station. It was voted the UK’s Trendiest Hotel by Tripadvisor 2010 and offers funky retro charm. If you’d like to enjoy a meal before or after the show, visit Alfie’s Bar and Restaurant, on the ground floor of the hotel. b*ying a theatre ticket entitles you to 20% off your meal at Alfie’s restaurant, before or after the performance. Or for a really special treat, why not combine your theatre experience with a night’s stay at one of the hippest hotels in London. You can receive a 10% discount by booking an advance p*rchase through their website: http://www.bermondseysquarehotel.co.uk
The complete double-bill of plays will be shown twice each night and can only accommodate an exclusive audience of 10 per showing. Pre-booking is therefore essential for this performance. Latecomers cannot be admitted."

Should be good and only 10 places per show....

http://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/outanda ... nfessions/

[superhero]

lol.... probably easier to say generally speaking, theatre shows not taking place in a theatre

In English?

[Beate]

Like when they do Shakespeare in an outdoor location at a castle or something?

[superhero]

Ja, actually there's Macbeth at the House of Detention soon, by Belt Up (who are really good at promenade/site specific shows):


"Allow the strangers your hand and follow as they lead you far below the streets of London into the tunnels and cells of Middlesex Prison. There begin your passage – a nightmarish journey into the mind of one of literature’s greatest serial killers.
This ambitious new production of Macbeth sees Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy mounted by an all-male cast that breathe life into the Scottish King and the three weird sisters that guide him on his path of self-destruction.
Locked away from daylight within a supposedly haunted labyrinth, watch Macbeth as he struggles through delusions and paranoia in this relic of Victorian punishment, bricks built one upon the other with a single purpose, preventing the demons inside from being unleashed.
A prison, a workhouse and a system of underground cells; this is the House of Detention Clerkenwell.
From the award winning company behind The Tartuffe, The Trial, Lorca is Dead, Atrium, Quasimodo and The Boy James, Belt Up Theatre returns to London with the language of Shakespeare, one of the greatest stories ever told and a terrifying new vision…
‘A clever, claustrophobic hour of psychological horror’Time Out on Quasimodo
‘It doesn’t so much inhabit the venue as haunt it, as if what you are witnessing is a terrifying vision conjured from your own warped imagination.’ The Guardian on The Trial"

http://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/outanda ... s-macbeth/

These's things always sell out quickly, especially ones done by Punchdrunk

[Beate]

We went to Cornwall once and happend upon the Minack Theatre, it is an amphitheatre with the most breathtaking views and they do outdoor theatre in summer. Frankly, I would have seen anything there but everything had been sold out for weeks.

[superhero]

Yeah those tickets go like hot cakes, thats why if anyone is aware of any coming up, please kindly post on here.

[superhero]

Shame I only found out about this after the event, but this was on Tuesday:

"Cult theatre-makers Punchdrunk (‘The Masque of the Red Death’; ‘It Felt Like A Kiss’) have been absent from the London scene for a while – though it has been possible to glimpse their trademark style in a couple of commercial brand-led spin-offs. In 2010, Stella Artois commissioned Punchdrunk performers to create a series of noir-ish events, which played out to a pair of punters in the back of a vintage car. Now another brand promo beckons. New hotel W London is launching with an immersive experience, inspired by ‘Rear Window’, with an intervention by Punchdrunk, on 15 March from 7-9pm. Those lucky enough to get a ticket will roam around the hotel in small groups. Tickets are free but it’s a lottery: go here and post ‘www.wlondon.co.uk/192rooms’ on the Wall to register (you’ll have to ‘Like’ the page first). Winners will be picked at random tomorrow and notified by email."

Did anyone managed to get tickets and go? I would have loved to be there

[superhero]

Punchdrunk to create first children’s show for Manchester International Festival (for 6-12 yrs old ):


"Punchdrunk is to create its first children’s show for the 2011 Manchester International Festival with the team behind Doctor Who.

Announcing the commission today at the launch of the biggest MIF programme to date, festival director Alex Poots refused to reveal the show’s subject matter. However, he said that the company were “taking kids very seriously”, adding that the piece would be “an amazing and, at times, scary experience for children”.
The Crash of the Elysium is being created by Punchdrunk artistic director Felix Barrett and Doctor Who writer Tom MacRae based on an idea by Doctor Who boss Steven Moffatt.
It is aimed at children aged between six and 12 and Poots said ideally there will be no adults among the audience. All reviewers will have to be children in the target age group, Poots told The Stage.
The show is being produced by MIF, Punchdrunk and BBC Wales and will be performed in the piazza outside the BBC’s new home in Salford Quays.
Damon Albarn, whose Monkey: Journey to the West ran at MIF 2007, is to return to the event this year with a project about the Renaissance mathematician, scientist and spy Dr John Dee. The project is being composed by Albarn and directed by Rufus Norris and will premiere in the Palace Theatre on July 1 before transferring for the London 2012 Festival next year.
Poots also announced that comedian and actor Johnny Vegas is to return to the festival with a new show which will be performed in the Pavilion Theatre from July 11. Vegas would not confirm the subject matter of the piece but said that “it is something that hasn’t been done before”. Vegas’ original MIF show, Interiors, ran in 2007.
As previously announced, Victoria Wood’s new play That Day We Sang and The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic will also run at this summer’s festival."