In 2009 Dan Canham (Kneehigh, DV8, Punchdrunk, Fabulous Beast) made a film in a rotting, dilapidated theatre in Limerick, Ireland. Using that film as source material, this original piece of dance-theatre is an eloquent, heartbreaking elegy for a lost and ruined theatre. A performance of fragments of memories, of wild nights and long-disappeared communities. It evokes the life of a once-mighty building what asks what is left when a theatre closes its doors to the public?
We are delighted to be producing The Memory of Theatre, a collaboration between University of Bristol Department of Drama, Bristol Old Vic and Pyxis Design.
This site is still under construction. We’ll be uploading more projects and information very soon.
We are the Artistic Directors of Mayfest, Bristol’s festival of adventurous theatre for playful people. Mayfest runs annually in venues across the city, including Bristol Old Vic, Arnolfini, Tobacco Factory Theatre and various other indoor and outdoor sites.
To find out more about Mayfest, visit www.mayfestbristol.co.uk
We recently launched a new publication created by Search Party and the University of Chichester called Save Me: A Conversation Across the City. You can purchase the book here.