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Are-you-watching


Theatre Making 2020: Are you Watching?

 Created entirely during the first lockdowns in spring 2020, Are You Watching? germinated from the stimulus material, including Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information.

Just as the group were about to begin the devising process, COVID struck, and everyone was scattered to their homes across the country. The group found ways to make their performance entirely online, from their kitchens and bedrooms and gardens, collaborating with each other and the tutors to rehearse/develop all their work via Teams and Zoom.

 

As always, the students took on all the production work: directing, choreography, music/sound, costume, props, makeup, set, lighting, marketing, as well as the filming/editing of the material. Unable to perform live for their audience in a shared space, they screened their recorded performance for family and friends via YouTube. 

 

Meet the cast and crew

     

Plot:

Locked in. No escape. We log on, watch, scroll, swipe, log off, repeat. The days roll into night as we cling onto the relationships we once had. We talk and talk but nothing gets said. Loose wires and broken connections.

Silence. White noise. Darkness spreads amongst the watchers, infected by new realities. Here's your key to freedom, but what is freedom? Dance like no one is watching... but do you really know who is watching?

 Full cast and Crew:

 All of the students took on the role of 'actor' for this performance of Are you watching?

 

Becky Fryza - Sound and Costume

Courtney Duffin-Hall - Marketing

Charlotte Emma Jones - Director & Choreographer

Georgia Brooke - Director

Ella Pendleton - Stage Manager

Ellie Roberts - Stage Manager

Emily Hall - Sound and Welfare

Emily Huggins - Sound 

Emily Moss - Set and Marketing

Essie Butterworth - Lighting and Welfare

Gianluca Scatto - Editing, Marketing and Sound

Hannah Steele - Production Mnager

Joe Maddalena - Editing, Lighting and Writer

Megan Bowle - Costume and Marketing

Omar Amer - Make-up

Rosie Sutherland - Director 

Tash Nayee - Set and Make up

 

 

Full Production Video

 

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