{"id":17,"date":"2019-04-22T09:59:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T08:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2019-04-23T07:24:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T06:24:56","slug":"theatre-nomad","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/index.php\/theatre-nomad\/","title":{"rendered":"theatre nomad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"602\" src=\"http:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/theatre-nomad-1-1024x602.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/theatre-nomad-1-1024x602.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/theatre-nomad-1-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/theatre-nomad-1-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/theatre-nomad-1-225x132.jpg 225w, https:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/theatre-nomad-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>theatre nomad 1993 \u2013 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For twenty years\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatrenomad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">theatre nomad<\/a> brought together theatre makers from around the world working in a variety of theatrical traditions to reinterpret classic texts and create new theatre for new audiences and new situations. Started by Luke Dixon and Liz Turner in 1993, the company was originally known as The Soho Group, but as we wandered ever further around the world, picking up new members on our travels, theatre nomad seemed the more appropriate name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company\u2019s work was characterised by interests in gender,\nmulti-culturalism, and making theatre in unconventional spaces. Productions\nincluded ground-breaking all-female stagings of&nbsp;<em>Macbeth<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Hamlet<\/em>,\nan exploration of the queer in Shakespeare with&nbsp;<em>Shakesqueer<\/em>, and a site-specific&nbsp;<em>Uncle Vanya<\/em> set in the music room of an English country house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/theatre-nomad-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50\" width=\"629\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/theatre-nomad-2.jpg 838w, https:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/theatre-nomad-2-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/theatre-nomad-2-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/theatre-nomad-2-225x146.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The nomads toured the globe \u2013 from South Wales to Siberia,\nCanada to the Cape of Africa, China to the Balkans. The company performed in\nthe Shakespeare Gardens in Paris, high up in the Bavarian Alps, in a ruined\nchurch as part of the International Shakespeare Festival in Gdansk, at The Hong\nKong City Festival and across South Africa. Productions were seen by more than\n45,000 people in more than 150 different venues in 14 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine thousand people took part in theatre nomad\u2019s educational\nworkshops run as part of the company\u2019s commitment to the exploration of\nperformance and the social use of drama. The company ran workshops on\nShakespeare in the townships of South Africa, on trance performance in England,\non the acting of gender in North America and on text and theatre skills in\nschools and colleges across Europe. The nomads also used drama to deal with a\nwide range of social issues including war and bereavement in Kosovo, youth\nalienation in North America and conflict reconciliation in Southern Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theatre nomad 1993 \u2013 2011 For twenty years\u00a0theatre nomad brought together theatre makers from around the world working in a variety of theatrical traditions to reinterpret classic texts and create new theatre for new audiences and new situations. Started by Luke Dixon and Liz Turner in 1993, the company was originally known as The Soho [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frogbox.co.uk\/lukedixon\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}