Image above 'Endling' by Rob Heaslip, Set design and Image by Alison Brown
With Theatres across Scotland sitting empty, festivals postponed and missing audiences - where do the theatre makers go from here? We are desperate to use our resting creative skills and get back to making work to engage and inspire people.
We want to collectively come together to find a way to celebrate our amazing Scottish theatre industry. Our idea has come from Designers and Production Managers but is open to all who want to grab the opportunity to creatively celebrate our remarkable theatre industry.
A single chair will be our symbol.
"The minute you put a chair on stage, it tells you a period, it tells you a culture, it tells you a civilisation – you can place that space instantly by the information that a chair gives you"
- Bob Crowley October 2009
This poignant quote encapsulates a unique vision that Designers have and how visuals stories can tell be told a thousand different way through piece of scenery on a stage.
We want to collectively come together to find a way to celebrate our amazing Scottish theatre industry. Our idea has come from Designers and Production Managers but is open to all who want to grab the opportunity to creatively celebrate our remarkable theatre industry.
A single chair will be our symbol.
"The minute you put a chair on stage, it tells you a period, it tells you a culture, it tells you a civilisation – you can place that space instantly by the information that a chair gives you"
- Bob Crowley October 2009
This poignant quote encapsulates a unique vision that Designers have and how visuals stories can tell be told a thousand different way through piece of scenery on a stage.
TAKE A SEAT is a collective response to the spaces we cannot be in, a teeny call to arms, an art installation and love letter to the audiences we are missing and the craft we are committed to.
We want to inspire you to get involved whatever you do in Live Performing Arts and wherever you may be in Scotland.
Stage 1 Research and Development
We invite you to use a chair as a base to tell your story, let us applaud the theatre makers, the creative work that can be made and the stories that are desperate to be told.
The chair could be painted, decorated, or chosen with care as part of a larger installation. But however you choose to present it, it tells your story, a missing show or your response to the love of live theatre.
Photograph your work, send it to hello@enveloperoom.org.uk and an auditorium of chairs will assemble on the website www.takeaseat.org.uk and post it on social media using #takeaseat.
Closing date for submissions, Monday 31st August
And there’s more…
Stage 2 Rehearsal an installation at the Royal Lyceum, with its ‘opening night’ on Thursday 24th September which would have coincided with the launch of the theatre’s autumn season and closing on Saturday 3 October.
Up to 100 seats will be installed from across Scotland and assembled in a creative tableau filling the entire glass foyer.
The installation involving, costume sound and light will become animated at standard performance times: 7.30pm (Monday to Saturday) and 2.30pm (Tuesday and Thursday).
Image below 'Sex and God' by Linda McLean and Magnetic North. Set design - Claire Halleran, Lx design - Simon Wilkinson, Image by Colin Hattersley
