Blank Productions
R&D of a theatre work in progress, Nov 2014
Half Moon Theatre, Limehouse, London
Text: Mark C. Hewitt
Dramaturgy: Katalin Trencsényi
Music: Thomas Strønen
Sound design: John Avery
Lighting design: Kristina Hjelm
Movement direction: Imogen Knight
Dramaturgical assistant: Simon Stache
Production Co-ordinator: Jo Rawlinson
Visual artist (documentation): Lindsey McGown
Photographer (documentation): Nivine Keating
Performers:
Kathryn McGarr
Lucas Augustine
Rhys Meredith
Liam Shannon
Ipek Uzman
Oxana Nico
Sylvia Chiantia
During November 2014, Blank Productions gathered a creative team to research and develop a new text for theatre by Mark C. Hewitt with music by Thomas Strønen. The work is still in development and is expected to go into full production during 2017.
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Photos below by Nivine Keating © Morrighan Images. Half Moon Theatre, London, 2014
• “... people expelled from life and time. Their past is cancelled, their future empty. They have no gods at all. They seem caught in an inertia where significant action, should it occur, has to be motivated by ghosts. There is nowhere in these characters to dig for a profound reversal or a revelatory recognition.”
Anne Carson (from introductory essay to her translation of Euripides’ ‘Hekabe’, from the book, Grief Lessons, 2006)
• 'Against the dreaded external world one can defend oneself only by somehow turning away from it ...'
Sigmund Freud ('Das Unbehagen in der Kultur' (The Uneasiness in Culture) 1930, translated into the English as 'Civilization & its Discontents’ at the suggestion of Joan Rivière
• 'You see ... all art has now become completely a game by which man distracts himself, and you may say it’s always been like that, but now it’s entirely a game.’
Francis Bacon - 'Interviews with Francis Bacon 1962-1979’ by David Sylvester