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title = "Entitled: Scenographic design work for Quarantine Theatre Company considering how might we explore theatrically experiences of hope, privilege and disappointment, and negotiate, on and off stage, the impossibility of trying to arrive at a point of completion or perfection. ",
author = "Banham, {Simon James}",
note = "Entitled was a co-production with The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester with further development by Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival and The Grand Theatre, Groningen. Entitled is about hope, privilege and disappointmentand the impossibility of trying to arrive at a point of completion, of perfection.The scenography of the piece parallels and possibly ultimately denies the attempts of those inhabiting the stage to reach a conclusion, it's not a question of giving up but rather of things coming to an end. This is a further investigation, following on from my work on Quarantine's production of Make-believe, into a development of how, as a spectator, we can read and construct scenography revealed in a theatrical context in our 'minds eye'. Scenographically It takes the form of a get-in and a get-out: the usually hidden choreography of transforming a theatre, inhabiting it with a constructed place for performance and then returning it, back again, to an empty space. We reveal the layers of mapping, and expose the existence of an existing plan, a scenographic intention.We begin by building an imagined theatrical space in the mind of the viewer through text spoken scenography not a physical scenography, this is developed subsequently with the physical scenography, initially predictive/ indicative marks which are replaced by the stage objects, the manifestations of that spoken scenography. We, inevitably, fail to complete the scenography as it may have been individually created in the mind of the spectator nor do we proceed with any performed occupation of that space that might have been imagined or expected. However, we have reached a point that is both the end and the beginning inhabiting the same space for 30 seconds. The creation of this duality, of a space that is both resonant with past experience and/or pregnant with future possibilities that can only be explored through the personal experience of the individual spectator is an alternative strand of investigation in my work with Quarantine. ",
year = "2011",
month = jul,
day = "7",
language = "English",
publisher = "Quarantine",
}