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Sarajevo Story: Lightwork - Image Performance - Theatre Company
http://www.lightwork.org.uk/productions/sarajevo-story
Created by the company, from an original idea by Gregg Fisher and David Annen. A Lightwork production developed and performed at the Lyric Hammersmith - 26th February - 15th March 2008. Sarajevo Story is a multimedia piece featuring extensive sound and video designs and a thread of dance. Inspired by actual circumstances, it tells a contemporary story about truth and perception, togetherness and separation, set across the faultlines of cultures, international politics and personal histories.
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The Tempest: Lightwork - Image Performance - Theatre Company
http://lightwork.org.uk/productions/the-tempest
In August 2009 Lightwork and Parrabbola a company that makes site specific and community-based work developed and co-presented a work-in-progress version of Shakespeare's The Tempest at the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival (which in 2009 had a multimedia theme). The contents of this website are 2016 Lightwork unless otherwise stated. Site designed and developed by Sam Hastings.
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Current Projects: Lightwork - Image Performance - Theatre Company
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Is about acting, performing, being authentic, telling the truth, pretending and lying. It looks back to Victorian melodrama and delves into reality TV and computer games, to tell the story of an actor who conceals a guilty secret. The contents of this website are 2016 Lightwork unless otherwise stated. Site designed and developed by Sam Hastings.
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The Good Actor: Lightwork - Image Performance - Theatre Company
http://lightwork.org.uk/productions/the-good-actor
Is in development as a theatre piece, an installation and a series of short videos. As an installation, performed for the first time as part of the Digital Stages festival at Hoxton Hall on 26 April 2011. For more information visit www.digitalstagesfestival.co.uk/lightwork/. We shot the films in a week in July 2010, mainly on location, spending around two hours on each shoot. The actors, participants and crew worked largely through improvisation (or sometimes by being themselves, as far as possible)&...
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Under Development: Lightwork - Image Performance - Theatre Company
http://lightwork.org.uk/under-development
Lightwork projects presently under development include:. Lightwork and Parrabbola are developing a multimedia production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. The project builds on our scratch co-production at the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival, 2009. It features surveillance technology in a production about power, confinement and release. The contents of this website are 2016 Lightwork unless otherwise stated. Site designed and developed by Sam Hastings.
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About the Company: Lightwork - Image Performance - Theatre Company
http://lightwork.org.uk/company
Lightwork was founded in 1999. We are a non-profit making organisation and became a company limited by guarantee in October 2000. The company is artist-led. Andy Lavender is Artistic Director. The company is overseen by a board of directors who have a range of experience, in particular in theatre performance, direction, theatre publicity and production, project management, policy development and teaching drama and theatre at higher education level. We make work that is pleasurable and thought-provoking.
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Past Productions: Lightwork - Image Performance - Theatre Company
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MyLife is a multimedia project, in collaboration with Lewisham Youth Theatre, that fuses words, music and dance along with online videocasting material. Sarajevo Story is a multimedia piece featuring extensive sound and video designs and a thread of dance. Inspired by actual circumstances, it tells a contemporary story about truth and perception, togetherness and separation, set across the faultlines of cultures, international politics and personal histories. Here's What I Did With My Body One Day. Combi...
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Blavatsky: Lightwork - Image Performance - Theatre Company
http://lightwork.org.uk/productions/blavatsky
A really intelligent piece of theatre. a brilliant, fizzing evening. Combining Victorian illusionism and multimedia staging, Blavatsky dealt with the nature of belief and the susceptibility of seekers. It explored the moment when performance becomes deception. It bordered on the truth. It mixes videos and actors and conjurors. Daringly, it projects the gullibility and scepticism which greeted Blavatsky . and then thrusts a mind-reader into the audience to test its prejudices. Cleverly it conj...The conte...
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Here's What I Did With My Body One Day: Lightwork - Image Performance - Theatre Company
http://lightwork.org.uk/productions/hwid
HERE'S WHAT I DID WITH MY BODY ONE DAY. Here's What I Did With My Body One Day. A GENETIC DETECTIVE THRILLER. A hugely enjoyable mixture of head and heart. When British genome scientist David Rée is invited to a conference in Paris he decides to take his ailing father. But soon David's father goes missing. Finding him will raise the ghosts of the dead, the secrets of inheritance and the truth about a bizarre family curse involving French intellectuals in Paris. A hugely enjoyable mixture of head and heart.