RED EARTH ENVIRONMENTAL THEATRE COMPANY.
In fridays lesson we all showed our group presentations we had created on Site specific, site responsive and theatre companies who use this.
Our teacher told us about Red earth and we were asked to research them.
They create theatre by using the environment, their aim is to transform the way we think about where we live and how our environment contributes to how society is today. They are quite policital, similar to the theatre company I researched called KABOSH.
A particular piece they have created is called CHALK. Which was perfomed on the South downs in 2011. This performance explored the Archaeology and ecology of the Souths downs national park. This included perfomance journeys for the actors and audience, experiential walks over the downs and creating site specific installations. This performance was all based on the nature of the site, the history and the meaning it holds. It was quite spritual and invited peformers and audience members to collaborate with the land by walking through it, singing, performing and building on it.
It is all about understanding and appreciating what we have and how the environment is so important for us, and just exactly what we can create from the environment through performance.
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