Theatre

A Living Archive: The Performance Territory as Social Interstice

Theatre / By / November 2, 2014

Together with his choreographer wife Grace Ellen Barkey, visual artist and theater maker Jan Lauwers formed the Flemish theater collective Needcompany in 1986. The aesthetic richness of their multilingual and multimedia performances is the product of a collective elaboration on their meanings, effects and outcomes, while embracing the potential for individual manoeuvrability within a sphere …

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“I agree to this”: Third Angel and the Price of Fame

Theatre / By / August 5, 2014

Hi. My name is Rachel. I’m 36 years old, I’m happily married and I agree to this.[1] These words, a recorded sound bite voiced over a motionless studio stage, open Third Angel’s latest production The Life and Loves of a Nobody, which began its international tour in Sheffield, UK, last week. These opening words are, …

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David Foster Wallace’s Hideous Men & London’s Olympic Epiphany

Art, Literature, Theatre / By / August 5, 2014

As this inclement and balmy London summer draws to a close, the ICA plays host to Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace’s darkly comic collection of short stories, adapted for stage by artists Andy Holden and David Raymond Conroy. Penned in the late 90s, Wallace’s text employs a variety of literary techniques to …

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