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unlawful assembly
design role: Set and Costume designer, Costume maker. director: Jonathan Holmes writers: Deirdre Burton and Tom Davis venue: Chipping Norton Theatre, and promenade around the town date: 2006 This was a new play, commissioned to celebrate the 400th year anniversary of Chipping Norton’s achievement of status as market town, part of a swath of fringe productions embracing provincial community issues. The script developed as a result of devised workshops involving the writers, local young people, the Director, Designer, and the Musical Director, Pete Readman. The play evokes the community in 1606, incorporating marketers, rioters, and young lovers, all pitted against the elemental forces of love, fire, death and trade. These figures are manifested as Medieval style ‘types’. The piece holds resonance as contemporary drama, simultaneously drawing on emblematic folk mythology, and particularised folk history. The set and costumes sought to translate the Medieval typology for a largely teenage, modern audience, and retain a sense of the mysterious energy of past belief systems and ways of life. related links:
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