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Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe Festival >>>

2007

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Synopsis:
In times of increasing fear, disorder and disturbance, It/s Like It Ought To Be: A Pastoral marks a nostalgic retreat from our chaotic urban age towards the romanticism of a bygone Arcadian idyll. Borrowing from countryside ritual such as Morris Dancing and Mummers Plays, and cult films like The Wicker Man, the company reinvents folklore for an imagined village through a memorable mish-mash of image, sound-effects and live music. On a stage littered with rustic paraphernalia, fake flora and fauna and assorted bits of technical equipment, pictures and atmospheres of pre-industrial rural bliss are studiously built up and celebrated, then beautifully subverted and undermined as the theatre temporarily becomes a clearing in the urban forest.

BAC, London >>>

2005

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Univited Guest: written by Paul Clarke, Richard Dufty, Jessica Hoffmann with Neil Callahanin collaboration with sound artist Duncan Speakman

Synopsis:
Why do we not shout "enough" when we watch the TV news from Iraq or look at a photo of blood seeping from the head of a corpse? Could it be that we have become so used to fetishised images of violent death that we can no longer distinguish between the real death and the staged one; between real blood and tomato ketchup? - Gardner, Guardian