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Overview
Credits
Reviews and audience feedback
Show History
The team
Behind the grand façade of Alexandra Palace an empty Victorian theatre stands forgotten. And for seventy years, a show has been waiting. Waiting for you.
You arrive alone. You enter in darkness. In silence. An extraordinary experience begins.
The Show’s the Thing is an installation of light and sound in which the theatre itself is the only performer, and it performs for an audience of one.
Supported by Awards for All.
Credits
Created by Ged Barry (sound), David Harradine (direction),
Jo Manser (lighting).
Press and audience feedback
This is a special performance. It's chilling and disorientating, yet strangely exhilarating. Weird and rather wonderful, The Show's The Thing's a gem.
Metro, London
Spine-tingling sound effects and phantasmagorical lighting. Like a striptease in which the empty auditorium itself bares its ragged and beautiful all.
Daily Telegraph
A seductive and spooky experience.
Time Out Critics Choice
Simultaneously beautiful and frightening, Harradine and co's installation is an experience to cherish.
The Wire
It's like being in Alice in Wonderland.
Observer
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Show History
24 - 29 July 2006 The Theatre at Alexandra Palace
The team
Ged Barry
Born in Liverpool. Studied for a B.A in music at Goldsmiths College and an
M.A in Sonic Art at Middlesex University. Ged has over fourteen years experience
as a composer specializing in music for theatre and dance, a multi-instrumentalist
performer of jazz and contemporary music and as a
sonic artist and sound designer. Ged’s theatre/ dance commissions and
art work includes projects with dare2, The Derby Playhouse, Leicester Haymarket,
Midland Arts Centre, Para Active, Gill Clarke, Transitions, VTOL, Rose’s
Thoughts, Retina Dance Company and The Barriedale Operahouse. Film work includes
the score for the ‘The Clearing’ with Derek Jarman’ and
he played on the score for ‘Chocolat’ with Johnny Depp and was
in the film as a band member. Most recent presentations of his works include
‘Within’ an installation at St Augustine’s Tower Hackney
plus concerts and installations at festivals and institutions such as The
Place, ICA, Bonnie Bird Theatre Laban Creekside, Lillian Bayliss theatre and
the release of ‘Smiling Sweetly’ by Marina Records as well as
performances of Ged’s jazz trio ‘The Fainting Goats’. Ged
is a committed educator for adults and children current posts include woodwind
tutor and workshop leader for Haringey council and composition and performance
tutor at Southwark College.
David Harradine
David is artistic director of Fevered Sleep for which he has directed, designed
and co-devised projects spanning installation, theatre and site-specific performance,
most recently The Dreaming Place, the inaugural performance for The Egg, Bath
and Fleet, an installation at the Lowry at Salford Quays. Recent work as a
freelance director/designer includes LUX, a research project on the dramaturgy
of light and Hospitalworks for theatre-rites. Other recent projects include
choreographing A Present for Mr. Newton, a site-specific dance piece at The
Wapping Project and writing There’s a Burning in my Heart, an installation
of text and light at BAC. David was recently awarded an Arts and Humanities
Research Council Fellowship, for a three year project, Written with Light,
which explores the connections between photography, light and performance.
Jo Manser
Jo has been a designer and art director for theatre and television for seven
years since graduating from Wimbledon School of Art in 1997. His theatre work
consists of both set-design and lighting-design, working with companies such
as Fevered Sleep, Para Active and the award winning Primitive Science. His
main theatre project at present is Lux, a highly acclaimed exploration into
light with David Harradine. His television work consists primarily of historic
drama reconstructions and he has just been nominated for an Emmy award as
Production Designer for a film called Guns, Germs and Steel, for Lion TV.
Jo is also responsible for the largest black powder explosion since the American
Civil War to recreate the potential explosion of Westminster Palace by Guy
Fawkes for Darlow Smithson Productions.
