As part of UoB's Performing the Archive unit, we have curated:
An installation on the Bristol Old Vic's 70's renovation period with regards to Peter Moro's architecture and people's reviews on its establishment and theatrical preservation. Join us track back in time through the lens of Trelawny, Macbeth and As You Like It.
In no particular order, we let spectators perceive photographs, transcripts and fragments of Bristol Old Vic's past between 1969 and 1972. This non-linear timeline was to provide the freedom to interpret events and to assess gaps in history. Framed in the manner of performing production extracts, we believe elicited a dramatic nature in both the BOV's digression (loss) and progression (addition), and into theatre as a whole. Perhaps, the loss of tradition and the clasp of contemporary. Or art versus money? The contradiction of idealism with realism.
Or as an institution, could it still; "The Theatre Complex-yes the old dream come true. Keeping what's best, but making all else new." (Theatre Collection As You Like It Gala Program, 1969)
In no particular order, we let spectators perceive photographs, transcripts and fragments of Bristol Old Vic's past between 1969 and 1972. This non-linear timeline was to provide the freedom to interpret events and to assess gaps in history. Framed in the manner of performing production extracts, we believe elicited a dramatic nature in both the BOV's digression (loss) and progression (addition), and into theatre as a whole. Perhaps, the loss of tradition and the clasp of contemporary. Or art versus money? The contradiction of idealism with realism.
Or as an institution, could it still; "The Theatre Complex-yes the old dream come true. Keeping what's best, but making all else new." (Theatre Collection As You Like It Gala Program, 1969)
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