A walk at the edge of the world

We are currently developing another exciting new production with Magnetic North Theatre. We've been working with Magnetic North's Director Nick Bone and performer Ian Cameron in Edinburgh over the last 2 weeks and now heading to Mull to complete the first stage of development.

A Walk at the Edge of the World is inspired by the act of walking. During the performance, the narrator leads the audience along the many paths his mind followed as he walked and the talk leaps from subject to subject, mirroring the way the mind works when there is time only to think. The hidden secrets of the landscape and the constantly shifting border between land and sea lead the narrator to understand that the past is always with us, whether we realise it or not.

Performances: Mull — June 29th and Iona — June 30th

Walden on tour

Walden is on tour again this year, we saw one of the performance in Glasgow on Wednesday before its journey through Scotland and Wales over the coming month.
You can find the dates here.

Walden on tour

The new performances of Walden had great responses from the press (nice review in the list) and from the audience.
It finishes on Saturday in the Edinburgh Fringe, then will be touring in September and October (dates here).

The set in The Dovecot in Edinburgh, pictures by Nick Bone

Walden on tour

The rehearsals for the new tour of Walden began yesterday at the Scottish Opera.
It will be performed in Glasgow at the G12 between the 13th and 15th August, then will go to the Edinburgh Fringe at the the Dovecot from the 17th untill the 29th August. It will tour throughout the UK until October.

For more information for booking, dates and venues, see Magnetic North website.

Walden

Walden was selected for Scotland live 2008, an international showcase to highlight the work of Scottish theatre and dance artists. The Federation of Scottish Theatre hosted performances and events across Scotland and Walden was presented in Perth theatre.
The production was created in 2007 by director Nicholas Bone of Magnetic North Theatre and Sans façon and was originally performed in Stills arts gallery in Edinburgh. Developed as part of the company's Rough Mix programme, Walden will be touring Scotland in late Summer 2009.
Following are a few pictures of the performance with an adaptation of the set for Perth Theatre.

Robbie Jack during rehearsal

Robbie Jack during rehearsal

The dress rehearsal

The dress rehearsal

The dress rehearsal


hanging coat hooks for the audience to use, which form part of the set

Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland

We are pleased to announce that we have been nominated by the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland for our collaboration on Walden with Nick Bone of Magnetic North and actor Ewan Donald, in the category Best Design.

The collaboration developed over many month, and as Nick says in his blog describing the evolution of Walden, "it was that unusual thing a genuine collaboration: the boundaries between our prescribed roles blurred heavily, but with no preciousness on anyone's part". A very exciting project as we wish they would be more.
It all started during Rough Mix, a unique inter-disciplinary creative development programme organised by Nick, where we worked for two weeks with a theatre director, a composer, a choreographer and two playwright on our own embryonic ideas with a continuous discussion and feed back. An amazing process where we realised how close in their thinking processes different creative practice and where Nick started the discussion on Walden.


The CATS ceremony will on June 15th.