Saturday, December 10, 2011

Theatre festivals should band together

10:08 AM | Posted by Free Game Zone | Edit Post

theatremakers like us, they get in the way and bring new audiences into contact with the scene - why not the many festivals in the UK to work

Ten years ago, packed and went to Edinburgh. I paid for the game with the large amount of loans and credit cards impose on us when we graduated, we went back a month later, tired, malnourished and too much debt. But intoxicated. In the following years, our company, Nabokov, the first of four works at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. And now we are at the head of Paines Plough, our party has always led to the development of new and exciting pastures.

pastures, literally, in the case of latitude, where we are headed today the release of his debut in Kate Tempest, lost, with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the Roundhouse. Meanwhile, our co-production with Drum Theatre Plymouth Bartlett Mike Love, Love, Love plays a sold-out run at the Galway Arts Festival, fresh off the heels of our collaboration with the Manchester International Festival Paul Heaton and eighth Che Walker. This week, we were also invited by the British Council and the cultural attaché of the Avignon Festival in France. (You can track our progress on Twitter.)

Festivals, like the best food markets, offering a feast of delights in the throat. They have a vibrant collection of idiosyncratic products in the same place at the same time, attracting an atmosphere of positive expectation and a leveling of the playing field where all that matters is the quality and taste. Festivals that are inherently ephemeral, makes them more attractive. You do not have all represented, but becomes obsessed with finding the best equipment.

For producers, festivals offer a unique public. Diverse in its composition, positive outlook and a willingness to take risks, a public festival like no other. Sometimes the public (including London), seems to sit back and say, "Come here, impress us." Crowds Festival is a totally different energy and emotion.

  • help, of course, if a festival is held - the simple inclusion is seen as a quality mark. The public is buying tickets to Galway love, love, love, it comes recommended by Paul Fahy, artistic director who has made a success of the festival and whose taste for the local community has come to trust. Unlike the Edinburgh Fringe, where word of mouth and critics are referees, spectators at festivals recovered its own representative, often a local person Roves the world in search of the best work at home. Manchester International Festival is healed, but rather to present existing work begins, committees and is involved in the creation of new parts. All Galway gave us the opportunity to put our work to a new audience geographically, production eighth attracted a new audience in terms of gender. Many who attended last weeks music fans dip their toes into the theater exit.

We like to see more festivals in the UK. As a country, the health of our future depends on a distribution less artistic in London, focusing on great works of art, local communities can be enhanced by the pride of their own arts festival making a mark on the theatrical map. And incentives are indisputable. MIF has been nearly a quarter of a million people and £ 36 million investment in the region in 2009, and the Galway Festival last year brought 165,000 visitors to the city and ? 20 million to boost the local economy.



Find best price for : --Manchester----Galway----Repertory----Birmingham----Kate----theatre--

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Blog Archive

Blogger Template created with Artisteer.