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title = "Old People, Children and Animals: Scenographic design work for Quarantine Theatre Company extending the researcher{\textquoteright}s canon of work with Quarantine in developing new thinking and practices of performance, involving innovative and creative scenographic research that extends the range, depth and application of current scenographic thinking. ",
author = "S. Banham",
note = "(devised) performance event with Quarantine: Theatre research company. Old people, children and animals was a co-production with Contact Theatre, Manchester and Tramway theatre, Glasgow - supported by Arts Council England, the Lankelly Chase Foundation and the Granada Foundation. With Old people, children and animals we aimed to continue and develop a number of recurrent areas of enquiry for Quarantine. We wanted to explore responsibility, not only to those close to us, but also our role in a civil society, as well as in a theatrical context; how audience and performers might share responsibility for the performance itself. We wanted to investigate something important right now in society by having the people most affected by it telling their own stories. And of course, to challenge the theatrical axiom that we should {"}never work with children or animals{"} and thus the idea that there are groups of people who should be excluded from theatre-making Placed in a marquee on stage in a playhouse, scenographically this played with perceptions of place, context and behaviours - inside/outside, theatrical/real, spectator/participant. Very overtly the Meta theatrical frame here is the siting of a marquee within a theatrical space, as the audience approach they are aware of the context, it is a set upon a stage yet an incongruent object. Once they have entered the marquee the space shifts to a different scale, referencing previous non-theatrical experiences yet with the memory of the real location as a conflicting locator. The nature of the events that occur in the marquee then serve to establish that location as the reality, the smell, the sense of an open air exterior created through the lighting from out-with the marquee and the deliberately non theatrical lighting within, coupled with the inhabiting of the marquee by the 'Old People, children and animals' which again consider various roles theatrical and real mechanical rabbits, rabbit costumes and real rabbits, until when leaving the marquee at the end and entering the wider theatrical space there is a re-adjustment a remembering of physical place that had been supplanted by a mental place. ; Old People, Children and Animals ; Conference date: 01-06-2008 Through 01-06-2008",
year = "2008",
month = jun,
day = "11",
language = "English",
publisher = "Quarantine",
address = "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland",
}