UNDER DEVELOPMENT
Lightwork projects presently under development include:
You Kill Me
You Kill Me is a triptych of classical myths reworked by way of new digital technologies. It draws on the myths of Daedalus and Icarus, Echo and Narcissus and Pyramus and Thisbe to tell three contemporary stories of love and loss.
Utter
Lightwork is conducting research on the border between reality and performance. Using audio recordings of actual conversations in public places, Lightwork is experimenting with their recreation onstage. The piece has been presented as a work-in-progress showcase at Central School of Speech and Drama. More about Utter
Three Territories of Theatre
Lightwork is exploring what Jacques Lecoq described as major 'territories' of theatre: tragedy, melodrama and comedy (Lecoq, more precisely, discusses bouffons, clowns and commedia dell'arte).
We propose to do this by focusing (in at least two of the three instances) on specific texts and the 'territory' that they represent. We will see how each text 'works' in terms of its dramatic structure and its principles of performance. We will work with the material to create contemporary multimedia performance that celebrates, dialogues with or tests (perhaps to destruction?) its historical antecedent.
- The Hecabe Project: we aim to exploring ways of adapting characteristics of Greek tragedy by way of contemporary technology. More about The Hecabe Project...
- The Irving Project: we want to explore a restaging of parts of The Bells, using Irving's idiom. We also want to explore the thematic material - a man riven by guilt at a past indiscretion - to see what sort of story it might tell today and what sort of moral universe it would exist within. More about The Irving Project...
- The Comedy Project: we may settle on a play, but we are also interested in developing a multimedia vaudeville