Published in The List July 7th 2006
Let’s get the specifics out of the way first – it’ll be better that way, believe me. Realism, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (the dictionary for people who like to use the letter ‘z’!) is an ‘inclination or attachment to what is real’. It is characterized (OED) by ‘a tendency to regard things as they really are and to deal with them accordingly’. It has been a philosophy, a doctrine and an artistic genre, constantly reinvented. Continue reading ››
Published in The List February 26th 2006
Arts in Motion Creative Centre, Evanton.
Isolated by acres of forestry commission, HOME Inverness – a brick and corrugated iron ‘Nissen Hut’ on an Evanton Industrial estate - is reached by a 45 minute ‘blind’ bus drive north from Inverness. Unnervingly like acquiescing in one’s own kidnapping, it’s the first stage in a sustained exercise of putting one’s audience on edge by director Scott Graham of experimental theatre outfit Frantic Assembly. Continue reading ››
Published in The List February 26th 2006
Caithness Glass Factory, Wick
Wick, one local tells me firmly, is not the kind of place where they ‘need’ a theatre. Sensing a challenge, the National Theatre, in tandem with Lyth Arts Centre, installed itself in the town’s abandoned Caithness glass factory for the most Northerly mainland production of HOME. Continue reading ››
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