Sunday 29 January 2012

cut-out




































































































2 DIMENSIONAL LIFE OF HER
Fleur Elise Noble
Barbican: The Pit
London International Mime Festival 2012

Saturday 28 January 2012

fragments de vie...









































FRAGMENTS DE VIE
Théâtre Téte de Pioche
Roundhouse
London International Mime Festival 2012

Director: Christine St. André
Set Design: Azeddine Allag
With: Jo Smith and Mathilde Henry

  • cabinet of curiosities
  • object theatre
  • a rural world
  • transformative
  • folklore
  • pre-industrial
  • labour
  • locomotive
  • fire
  • water
  • earth
  • wood
  • metal
  • earthworms
  • no weldings
  • no adhesives

Friday 27 January 2012

memories of identity





















































ANDRÉ Y DORINE
Kulunka Teatro
Southbank Centre: Purcell Room
London International Mime Festival 2012

Director: Iñaki Rikarte
Design: Laura Gómez
Lighting: Carlos Samaniego
Costume: Ikerne Giménez
Masks: Garbriñe Insausti
Photography: Gonzalo Jerez
Music: Yayo Cáceres
Assistant Director: Rolando San Martín

Performers:
Jose Dault | Garbriné Insausti | Edu Cárcamo

  • a tragicomedy
  • gentle
  • warm
  • humorous
  • the decay of aging
  • the routine of aging
  • the reality of Alzheimer's
  • a devourer of memories and identity

Monday 16 January 2012

made in grief















GRIEF
by Mike Leigh
National Theatre: Cottesloe

Director: Mike Leigh
Design: Alison Chitty
Lighting: Paul Pyant
Music: Gary Yershon
Sound: John Leonard
Photo: John Haynes
  • the pain
  • the sadness
  • the tiredness
  • the anger
  • the hatred
  • the loss
  • the relentlessness
  • the silence
  • the tea
  • the silver salver
  • the pinny
  • the chinn chinn
  • this was so excruciating
  • it was pinter
  • it was beckett
  • it was osborne
  • it was mike leigh

Saturday 14 January 2012

Friday 13 January 2012

Wednesday 11 January 2012

Tuesday 3 January 2012

Die Neue Haas Grotesk





















Notes on: Documentary Film by Gary Huskwit, 2007

open interpretation / feeling of finality / contrast / a default / the air you have to breath / an army of letters / type is a brand / the space between the black: not about the notes / AmericanAirlines - 40 years + / ubiquitous / not a hot thing since / smooth / neutral / efficient / non-aggressive / accessible / transparent / accountable / non-bureaucratic / official / weapon of communication / a club / mask of membership / well-rounded / a perfect balance of push and pull / sharing the same ideals / perfume of the city / conformity of form / conspiracy of cleanliness / clear / intelligent / intelligible / idealism of the 50s / reconstruct / rebuild / social responsibility / rational / straight forward / economic / no meaning in itself: meaning in context / the grid / democracy / holds firm / space holds the letters / lives in a powerful matrix of surrounding space...



Monday 2 January 2012

pirates, piss-squeeks and collage

















THE ANIMALS AND CHILDREN TOOK TO THE STREETS
A 1927 Production
National Theatre: Cottesloe

Director | Writer: Suzanne Andrade
Film | Animation | Design: Paul Barritt
Music: Lillian Henley
Costume: Sarah Munro and Esme Appleton
Producer: Joanna Crowley

  • the pirates
  • the piss-squeeks
  • the collage
  • the expressionism
  • the surrealism
  • the non-silent movie
  • the animation
  • the complete fusion
  • the wit
  • the metaphor
  • the politics
  • the contemporary
  • the afternoon park riots
  • the dreams
  • Granny's Gum Drops
  • Wayne the racist
  • the vouchers for two tickets
  • born in the Bayou: die in the Bayou

Sunday 1 January 2012

happy new year





















Nothing lives long
Nothing lives long
Nothing lives long
Except the earth and the mountains


'The Death Song of White Antelope'
Adapted from The Fighting Cheyennes
by George Bird Grinnell, New York, 1915