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If you’re interested in booking Align for your venue or event see the production details or email Rich to start the ball [...]
This six-minute trailer captures some of the ideas that formed the two-hour Align event. Rich and Robert talk about the big picture in locations on or close to the Strand Ley. Robert also interviews Martin South, artistic director of the Tower Theatre Company, about a curious coincidence pertaining to a little patch of land near [...]
On 22 January 2010, Align was performed at Bridewell Theatre in the City of London. The theatre is tucked behind Wren’s church of St Bride at the Eastern end of Fleet Street. The site was chosen in part for having historical connections with several of the subjects of Align.
The performance sold out — [...]
On 7th and 14th July 2009 Robert and Rich gave the first performances of Align to packed houses in the Talbot Room of the seventeenth century George Inn near London Bridge.
We also received some kind feedback from many folks who were present, which you can see here [PDF] illustrated with photographs by audience-member Rob [...]
For several years I have been leading Londoners on arcane historical pub crawls, performing texts by others which convey a strong sense of place. Align gives me the opportunity to tell some stories in my own words, and go deeper into some intriguing themes: of ancient continuities; and of that subconscious relationship we have with [...]
The Line in question is in fact a centre around which our multifarious preoccupations have been allowed to cluster: modernity and prehistory, geography and architecture, literature and music, anthropology and philosophy, culture and language. We’re interested in the kinds of stories we tell about the world we’re in and our place in it.
It’s a shamanic [...]
On March 9th 2009 Robert and Rich walked the Strand Ley — as far as is possible — in preparation for the first performances of Align. Of course the city prevents following or even perceiving the line as a straight line, but there’s really no other way to pick up some details of place besides [...]