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The company has co-produced, or worked in association with the Liverpool Playhouse, Akne Theatre, Central Television, Nottingham Playhouse, AZ Theatre and the Young Vic. They have received funding from the Arts Council, East Midlands Arts, Nottingham City Council, Central Television, North West Arts,
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was written by Myers, directed by Tom Wright; Nottingham and Vancouver (2006). Three strangers meet in an isolated house in winter: a woman, an 11-year-old girl and an old lady. Myers and her daughter Martha Myers-Lowe played the woman and the girl, and animated a puppet representing the old lady.
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was written by Myers, in partnership with the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham (2010–12) The 2012 piece brings together ethnographic researchers with theatre practitioners to examine the care of people with dementia. Myers, director Lowe and ethnographers Simon Bailey and Kezia Scales worked
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Productions have varied in performance style and form, from puppetry to video, from playwright-led play to street theatre and performance art; and ranged in subject and theme from the First World War to gender roles and female sexuality, from people smuggling to the Luddites.
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together on a workshop presentation of the play in July 2011. Meeting Ground later worked to create a full-scale production and tour of the play, in partnership with a Managed Innovation Network of the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham.
167:. Kalinska's production explored archetypes and stereotypes of strong women using parody, gothic design by Polish designer Zofia de Ines, ecstatic trance states and direct speech. As reviewer Betty Caplan said, the actors played " 30:. The company originates much of its work in Nottingham and tours many of its plays in the East Midlands, but it has also engaged in a number of international collaborations, and a number of its productions have appeared at the 56:, she directed in parallel with a Polish-language production of the same piece for Akne Theatre. In 2002 the company ran a workshop in Romania, bringing together theatre artists from Algeria, Palestine, Romania and Serbia. 115:, written and directed by Lowe; UK tour (1987). This play depicted a society which devalued creativity, leading to individuals with a poisoned fascistic imagination. It also drew upon ideas about multiple personality from 171:
their characters, stepping in and out of role, rather than simply reinforcing stereotypes." The production brought together actors from England, Germany and Poland, and toured in the UK, Germany, Poland and
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The Gulbenkian Foundation, the British Council, LOT Airlines, the Institute of Mental Health Nottingham, the National Institute for Health Research SDO and CLAHRC-NDL.
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and ends with the murder of a child. Film and video were an integral part of the production, showing the characters' multiple personalities as well as the coded "
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The company was founded in 1985 by Lowe, Myers, Bush Hartshorn, Jo Buffery and Stephen Mapp, after Lowe and Myers moved to Nottingham from London.
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Nottingham post critic Jeremy Lewis said the play "suggests faith, hope and courage offer an escape from the torments of modern life".
537: 635: 402: 375: 332: 145:, a musical by Lowe and David Wilson (composer), directed by Pip Broughton; co-production with Nottingham Playhouse (1990) 630: 178:, adapted and directed by Kalinska, from a play by Ronald Duncan; co-production with Polish company Akne Theatre (1992) 196:, by Jeremy Seabrook and Michael O'Neill; co-production with AZ Theatre, directed by Jonathan Chadwick; London (2001) 525: 526:"INSIDE OUT OF MIND To 29 June. :: ReviewsGate.com :: The Theatre Reviews site that covers the UK." 152: 583: 553: 252:, produced at Lakeside Theatre in 2008. Jonathan Chadwick's company AZ Theatre continues this project. 38: 139:, devised and performed by Myers and Tamzin Griffin; Magdalena Festival, and regional tour (1988/9) 119:
book Multimind. A secretary and her new boss start an affair, which turns into a destructive
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In the 1990s two productions were directed by Polish director Zofia Kalinska, one of which,
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Undercut: The Magazine from the London Filmmaker's Co-op Issues 16-19
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The Politics of Performance: Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention
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by Hoshiar, presented by AZ Theatre in 2007; and Stephen Lowe's play
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by Tanya Myers, workshop presentation; Nottingham Playhouse (2011)
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In 2014 The company's artistic directors are playwright
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Kathryn Ann Berney; N. G. Templeton (1 January 1994).
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Nottingham
United Kingdom
Magdalena International Women's Theatre Festival
Stephen Lowe
George Costigan
Neil Dudgeon
Maurice Roëves
Robert Ornstein's
folie à deux
home movie
Stanislaw Witkiewicz
Grotowski
Tadeusz Kantor
Magdalena Festival
The Politics of Performance: Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention
ISBN
978-1-134-93272-6
Undercut: The Magazine from the London Filmmaker's Co-op Issues 16-19
Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook
ISBN
978-1-134-77151-6
Contemporary British Dramatists
ISBN
978-1-55862-213-5
"Dementia care research becomes basis for touring play"


The Guardian
"Review: Inside Out of Mind, Lakeside Arts Centre, by Alan Geary"
"INSIDE OUT OF MIND To 29 June. :: ReviewsGate.com :: The Theatre Reviews site that covers the UK."

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