Young Vic; Gielgud, London
Theatre Uncut's visionary series of political plays appeal as much for the ideas as the drama. And Strangers on a Train runs out of steam
What began as a hand grenade has ended up as a cluster bomb. Three years ago Hannah Price conceived the idea of Theatre Uncut, a political new writing company and different version of protest theatre. It ingeniously brings new technology to bear on traditional agitprop, combining live performance and instantaneous multiplication.
The scheme, in which Price was joined as artistic director by Emma Callender, was to commission short plays that reacted to current politics and would be free for a month for anyone to download and perform anywhere. The original spur was the coalition's public spending cuts. In 2012 work came from Egypt and Iceland, Greece and Spain. This year, having consulted its rapidly growing audience – an audience which even by Young...
Theatre Uncut's visionary series of political plays appeal as much for the ideas as the drama. And Strangers on a Train runs out of steam
What began as a hand grenade has ended up as a cluster bomb. Three years ago Hannah Price conceived the idea of Theatre Uncut, a political new writing company and different version of protest theatre. It ingeniously brings new technology to bear on traditional agitprop, combining live performance and instantaneous multiplication.
The scheme, in which Price was joined as artistic director by Emma Callender, was to commission short plays that reacted to current politics and would be free for a month for anyone to download and perform anywhere. The original spur was the coalition's public spending cuts. In 2012 work came from Egypt and Iceland, Greece and Spain. This year, having consulted its rapidly growing audience – an audience which even by Young...
- 11/24/2013
- by Susannah Clapp
- The Guardian - Film News
Cannes -- Zodiak Entertainment has started off strong at this year's MIPCOM with the production and distribution giant announcing a partnership with the Ricky Martin Entertainment Group, a majority stake in U.K. producer Dangerous, sales of Nordisk's multiplatform climate project across the globe and a new event HD TV series based on Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks.
Zodiak's new joint venture with the Ricky Martin Entertainment Group, Rm 5to Elemento, will sell and produce Zodiak's products to the Latin American and U.S. Hispanic markets. Based in Miami, Rm 5to Elemento also plans to produce original formats for distribution via Zodiak's international sales arm. Ricky Martin Entertainment Group CEO Bruno Del Granado will head up the new company and Cco Harris Whitbeck will handle the venture's creative operations.
Zodiak has also snagged a majority share in U.K. production house Dangerous. Dangerous will now exist under the Zodiak banner,...
Zodiak's new joint venture with the Ricky Martin Entertainment Group, Rm 5to Elemento, will sell and produce Zodiak's products to the Latin American and U.S. Hispanic markets. Based in Miami, Rm 5to Elemento also plans to produce original formats for distribution via Zodiak's international sales arm. Ricky Martin Entertainment Group CEO Bruno Del Granado will head up the new company and Cco Harris Whitbeck will handle the venture's creative operations.
Zodiak has also snagged a majority share in U.K. production house Dangerous. Dangerous will now exist under the Zodiak banner,...
- 10/5/2009
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The historic story of the first men on the moon is retold on ITV on Monday in the docu-drama Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11.
With more than 50 per cent of the show set in space, Moonshot posed unique challenges for production company Dangerous Films.
Dan Parry, head of research at Dangerous, tells the Coventry Telegraph how it was all achieved, including how they borrowed a trick to simulate zero-gravity from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film of Arthur C Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Here's what he had to say:
"We built the interiors of two spacecraft - a lunar module and a command module, and each was about 10 per cent larger than the real thing. The larger size allowed us to squeeze in lights and cameras, which we could only do successfully by designing the spacecraft in such a way that they could be opened up like a dolls house.
With more than 50 per cent of the show set in space, Moonshot posed unique challenges for production company Dangerous Films.
Dan Parry, head of research at Dangerous, tells the Coventry Telegraph how it was all achieved, including how they borrowed a trick to simulate zero-gravity from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film of Arthur C Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Here's what he had to say:
"We built the interiors of two spacecraft - a lunar module and a command module, and each was about 10 per cent larger than the real thing. The larger size allowed us to squeeze in lights and cameras, which we could only do successfully by designing the spacecraft in such a way that they could be opened up like a dolls house.
- 7/17/2009
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
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