ABOUT LIGHTWORK
Lightwork makes contemporary and experimental theatre and performance. We make work that is pleasurable and thought-provoking. We explore new modes of production and communication, creating performances that are fresh, surprising and innovative. More about the Company...
CURRENT PROJECTS
The Good Actor
The Good Actor is about acting, performing, being real, telling the truth, pretending and lying. It looks back to Victorian melodrama and delves into reality TV and computer games, to tell the story of an actor who conceals a guilty secret.
Lightwork is developing The Good Actor as a theatre piece, an installation and a series of short online videos.
The installation is performed for the first time as part of Digital Stages festival at Hoxton Hall on 26 April 2011.
For the installation, please visit www.digitalstagesfestival.co.uk/lightwork/
For the videos, please visit www.thegoodactor.co.uk
UNDER DEVELOPMENT
The Tempest
Lightwork and Parrabbola are developing a multimedia production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. The project builds on our scratch co-production at the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival, 2009. It features surveillance technology in a production about power, confinement and release.
PREVIOUS PRODUCTIONS include...
SARAJEVO STORY:
impressive devised multi media piece
Time Out
a small company capable of doing big things
The Guardian
A rich and intelligent production
British Theatre Guide
a wonderful hybrid of sound, sight and suggestion
Rogues & Vagabonds
HERE'S WHAT I DID WITH MY BODY ONE DAY:
smart, sensitive and extremely enjoyable ... a resonant entertainment that appeals to the mind, the emotions and the eyes
The Times ****
mind-stretching, funny and elegant
The Sunday Times ****
a hugely enjoyable mixture of head and heart, text and visuals wrapped in an atmospheric and stylish production
The Guardian ****
a hugely stimulating and drop-dead gorgeous piece of theatre
Time Out
BLAVATSKY:
a really intelligent piece of theatre... a brilliant, fizzing evening
The Guardian
Andy Lavender's visually inventive production
Time Out
the new face of British drama
The Observer