by David Lane | Apr 15, 2016 | General |
(Schwalbe Cheats: image from brakkegrond.nl/en/agenda/ietm-schwalbe) I’m thirteen years old. It’s dusk and the lights are on in a dilapidated scout hut down a broken pathway in a rural village, where everybody else is doing the flag down ceremony: a mark of respect to...
by David Lane | Apr 17, 2016 | General |
(Audience take to the stage at Naked Lunch) This blog was originally published in April 2016. My last theatre visit at IETM couldn’t have been more different from the first. Having begun with entirely text-led autobiographical one-person show The Radicalisation of...
by David Lane | Apr 16, 2016 | General |
This blog was originally published in April 2016. Would you prefer to watch a hologram of a human, who is beamed from another space, perform with a human actor in a play – or just watch two human actors in the same space in a play? It’s a skewed question that begs...
by David Lane | Apr 16, 2016 | General |
Unreliability of narrative creates a space for audiences to wonder. From whose perspective is the action before us being presented? Is the scaffold of this story fixed or mutable? Is the world that contains that scaffold consistent? Is the theatrical frame itself...
by David Lane | Apr 15, 2016 | General |
Let’s start with a couple of caveats. Firstly, I know there’s no such thing as a passive spectator. The very phrase is a tautology: to spectate is to perform an action – of watching, witnessing, perceiving, interpreting, imagining and wondering. Secondly, I’ve covered...