The event invites those who have experienced the overnight Hotel Medea trilogy to share their memories, as part of an exploration of how the memory of a performance becomes a performative event in its own right.
The Viewpoints represent not only a physical technique but also a philosophical, spiritual, and aesthetic approach to actor and ensemble training. It provides a vocabulary for heightening awareness and impulse regarding space, movement and gesture. Water bottles and movement attire, please.
“When I first met you, you could see me but I couldn’t see you”, the invisible woman recounts.
When We Meet Again is a wearable film and one-to-one performance, a bizarre sensuous experience featuring you, your invisible friend, a 3D soundtrack, an old forgotten dance, the ocean, a flavour and me.
‘Like all the coolest destinations, we haven’t actually been to Summerhall, but we’d really, really like to.’ TIME OUT Some nice words from Time Out who picked Summerhall as one of 5 venues to head to this Festival. And it seems our wonderful Dissection Room bar is, in particular, attracting some attention… http://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/article/2570/dont-take-the-high-road
Ten Tracks, l’Institut Français d’Écosse and Summerhall present part one of two events dedicated to the cinéconcert format – the creation and performance of new soundtracks to existing films of the musicians’ choice. FOUND, Tokamak and Lipsync for a Lullaby’s styles contrast, but all of them share a creativity and intensity which suits accompaniment to [...]
Spend the first Sunday of the Fringe hanging out inEdinburgh’s most unusual new bar: Summerhall’s Dissection Room. Grab a drink, listen to some fine music and buy lots of great records from some ofScotland’s best loved record labels and bands. Including stalls from Chemikal Underground; De-Fence Records; Fence Records; FOUND; Gerry Loves Records; LuckyMe; Retreat!; Song, [...]
To launch our Summerhall feed, here is the Guardian‘s Lyn Gardner recommending some hot-ticket theatre around the UK. Naturally she picks up on Summerhall (and BAC‘s programme here in particular), and also mentions Quarantine‘s new work Entitled elsewhere in the piece (‘so utterly distinctive and so multi-layered’, she says of it). Entitled is also appearing [...]
Alexander McQueen’s legacy of bold, brave ingenuity continues to inspire beyond the borders of the fashion world. Noir! #9 takes this opportunity to respectfully commemorate his burial on the Isle of Skye and celebrate a true genius. Centered on a fashion show presenting a collection of exquisite womenswear from Harvey Nichols, guests can expect a showcase of [...]
Iara is starting to fear the worst. Sheʼs looking for a roomful of strangers whose arms she can fall into. And whilst she knows that she cannot necessarily be trusted, tonight she would like to put herself in your hands…
A work of outright conceptual theatre, RJ Thomson’s new play is the actual place of Singapore. A work of site-specific, interactive, durational, socially engaged, conceptual theatre, Singapore is also intended as a full allegory for the human condition.
