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DREAMTHINKSPEAK (1999 - ) |
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Nationality: English Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Created in 1999 by artistic director Tristan Sharps, dreamthinkspeak creates site-responsive works that interweave live performance with film and installations to create extraordinary journeys that are artistically ambitious, visually layered and popular with audiences wherever they are performed. Over the years, the company has evolved into a highly committed collection of collaborators, recognised by the Peter Brook/Empty Space/Equity Ensemble Award 2010 for "adventurous achievement in developing an ensemble of technicians, actors, directors, writers and musicians in surprising sites and venues, in a structure that is innovative in its own right". dreamthinkspeak are associate artists of the Brighton Festival and Dome.
Plays by dreamthinkspeak
Before I Sleep | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Co-op BuildingBrighton Festival | 05 May 2010 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139657 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 11 | ||
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Notes: | Commissioned by Brighton Festival. A site-responsive promenade production inspired by The Cherry Orchard, specially designed for the former Co-operative department store on London Road | |||||
Synopsis: | The characters in Chekhov's greatest plays inhabit a world on the verge of collapse. They look out to the future and wonder what life will be like in years to come, unaware that, for them, it is about to change dramatically and irreversibly., Their future is now our present. The starting point is Firs. Left alone at the end of The Cherry Orchard, the elderly manservant unwittingly traverses an entire century on an odyssey to retrieve his past. As we journey alongside him, we experience a richly inventive and ever-changing landscape of performance, film and installation created and inhabited by performers, architects, model makers and art designers. | |||||
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Don't Look Back | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton Festival | 03 May 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45667 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Co-commissioned by the Gardner Arts Centre. Don't Look Back is a new site-specific piece specially designed for the grand and faded Georgian Manor House at Stanmer Park. In groups of up to three people you are left to find your way through its hauntingly silent hallways and stairwells. Please note: Your journey begins and ends at The Gardner Arts Centre. Time journeys lasting 60 minutes for up to three people will leave The Gardner Arts Centre at 5 minute intervals. | |||||
Synopsis: | As you wander through the building's atmospheric interior, you will experience an accumulation of sounds, shadows, whispers, modelled landscapes, musical fragments and fleeting film images, conveying a heightened, dreamlike state that lingers long in the subconscious. Orpheus and Eurydice, one of the greatest of all ancient myths, is about the perils of looking back. The moment he turns his head to see Eurydice slipping back down into The Underworld, Orpheus is locked into limbo - yearning for the past, unable to exist in the present and refusing to face the future. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXIII (2003) Page 1285; Theatre Record Vol XXIV (2004) Page 0712; Theatre Record Vol XXV (2005) Page 1324 | |||||
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One Step Forward, One Step Back | ||
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool Cathedral | 07 Apr 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71766 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 14 performers | |||||
Notes: | conceived by Tristan Sharps | |||||
Synopsis: | Dante's Paradiso transposed from the imagined journey from Hell to Paradise to the nooks, crannies and galleries of Liverpool Cathedral. | |||||
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Rest Is Silence, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Malthouse Estate Warehouse, Brighton Festival | 02 May 2012 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71767 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Piece 90 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Co-commissioned by Brighton Festival with LIFT and The Royal Shakespeare Company. Part of the World Shakespeare Festival which is produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company for London 2012 Festival. | |||||
Synopsis: | A man's father dies and his world tips into free-fall. He does not know who to trust or what to believe in. He has no rulebook. There are no easy guidelines that show him how to feel or how to behave. His world is our world. This thrillingly visual deconstruction of Shakespeare's Hamlet interweaves performance and film to create a vigorous new interpretation of a well-known classic. Enclosed on all sides within a uniquely designed structure, we are drawn into a richly cinematic and dreamlike world. Scenes, film streams and visual sequences converge and collide, examining the play's themes and characters simultaneously and from a variety of angles. As we spy on the unfolding action, we become enmeshed in the messy duplicity of the charactersí tangled relationships, watching in horror at the unravelling of their private lives and the collapse of their world. | |||||
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Underground | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brighton, Th. Royal Stage Door | 24 May 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52380 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | chorus | |||||
Notes: | adapted from Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky | |||||
Synopsis: | Dostoyevsky's most famous novel centres on Raskolnikov, an impoverished student who commits a gruesome murder and is forced to come to terms with his crime through the living nightmare of his frantic search for redemption.Underground recreates the feverish atmosphere of Dostoyevsky's world by leading the audience through the corridors, stairwells, basements and backrooms of the labyrinthine Theatre Royal. With the freedom to follow a character or narrative thread, or to wander through the interconnecting maze of spaces, where scenes, fragments, film images and chance encounters merge, transform and dissolve, Underground is like a constantly shifting hallucinatory dream. | |||||
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Underground | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brighton Festival | 26 May 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139655 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXV (2005) Page 0752; Theatre Record Vol XXV (2005) Page 1358 | |||||
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Who Goes There? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton Festival | 08 May 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139654 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Synopsis: | Hamlet deconstructed. The audience are immersed into the world of Elsinore, witnessing, overhearing and eavesdropping on the action in this exciting promenade production which uses every space in the Gardner Arts Centre. | |||||
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