O Brave New World
Taking over an east London shop, we told the story of Shakespeare’s The Tempest episodically over six months, reinstalling our shop as a dive bar, supercomputer, junkshop with a hidden railway, dilapidated hotel, library and ferry terminal.
The O Brave New World serialised William Shakespeare's The Tempest into 6 episodes.
Each episode was told in a half hour chunk played out in a detailed installation at 297 Hoxton Street.
These installations cast the story on a blighted island and ranged from a soviet-style dive bar, supercomputer, junk filled basement, hotel lobby, library to finally a ferry port.
This the final installation allowing the audience to accompany Prospero on his journey back to his dukedom down Regent's Canal.
The sense not just of being in Prospero's private space but of going right into his head is acute, and the performance sets up a dynamic between real and imaginary worlds, inside and out, and what happens when different ways of thinking collide. I'll long remember the moment when chaos bursts through the library stack - Lyn Gardner, THE GUARDIAN
The sense not just of being in Prospero's private space but of going right into his head is acute, and the performance sets up a dynamic between real and imaginary worlds, inside and out, and what happens when different ways of thinking collide. I'll long remember the moment when chaos bursts through the library stack - Lyn Gardner, THE GUARDIAN
All in all it couldn’t have been more perfect - LIFE IN THE CHEAP SEATS
All in all it couldn’t have been more perfect - LIFE IN THE CHEAP SEATS
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Full Fathom Five
A.R.I.E.L
Caliban’s Cave
We took I, Caliban by Tim Crouch and set it in the middle of our production.
The Claribel
Prospero’s Library
The Port
From the performance
