Nottingham-based touring company New Perspectives is to present a mini-festival of radical theatre from across the country as part of a temporary art exhibition in the city.
Other Ways of Seeing will involve artists and companies staging “cutting-edge theatre that creates a dialogue with visual art” at the former site of Neale’s auction house on Mansfield Road, Nottingham.
New Perspectives artistic director Jack McNamara said, “the shows we’re bringing to Nottingham for this festival really push the form, exploring where theatre usually stops and visual art begins. Art forms and their audiences are still very divided and mix all too rarely. I wanted to create a programme in which different forms enriched each other, along with their audiences.
“They’re also shows that champion ‘other’ ways of looking at the world whether that’s through disability, interactivity, cultural heritage or even the point of view of a usually silent life model. Ultimately it’s a celebration of difference and how it makes for the most exciting art.”
The line-up for Other Ways of Seeing includes New Perspectives with A Fortunate Man, an exploration of John Berger and Jean Mohr’s photographic book following the life and work of a country doctor who committed suicide, on Friday 29 June at 7PM; Sue Maclaine’s Still Life, a show about life model Henrietta Moares in which each audience member draws a nude performer, on Saturday 30 June at 2:30 and 5PM; the world première of Tassos Stevens’s trio of theatre games and interactive stories Triptych on Saturday at 6:30PM; a rare opportunity to see radical Belgian disabled painter and performer Thibault Delferiere on Saturday at 7:15PM; and Wot?NoFish!! by Bread&circuses, in which a Jewish family portrait is created through projected drawings, on Saturday at 7:45PM.