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June 15th, 2006 · No Comments Yet
OK, bear with me. Dumb title. Titles are tricky. But necessary.
I saw a play today: Electronic City. It’s by Falk Richter, a German playwright; it was performed by MIT students, a member of whose company is staying on my sofa right now. It was good. It’s a good play, snappily, energetically performed. Anyway, here’s the thing; it was performed in the Dana Centre, a science-museum in miniature which apparently exists for people to “talk about science.”nNow, in studentworld and in Edinburgh, I’ve seen drama performed in a huge range of venues - churches, cupboards, quadrangles; I know plays have been performed at Edinburgh in toilets, Birth, Deaths and Marriages offices, and sewers. I once planned a love story that took place in the showers of a swimming pool changing room. That would have been shit. But mostly, I didn’t realise until today how strong the potential of anywhere-theatre is. [Read more →]
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