The Thirty

We like to be willfully interdisciplinary in our approach and our projects often get remixed from one form to another as they develop: so what started out as an idea for a novel, might grow towards being a film, and then a performance, and then a piece of music, and then a performance again.

Ultimately, we want to find the heart of each story and find the best form with which to share that with an audience, now.

Photo: Timothy X Atack

Photo: Timothy X Atack

This can make our development periods very long; so we tend to be working on multiple projects. Every year (used to be twice a year, but lately it’s tended to be once a year), as part of our ongoing practice, we do a creative exercise that we call ‘The Thirty’.

It’s essentially the two of us talking through a list of 30 ideas that we feel are current or somehow fascinating. They might be as broad as an area of research, or as well-formed as an ongoing touring show, or as nebulous as a phrase we simply like as a title. It’s a tactic for forcing us to keep difficult ideas on the table, ensuring that strong ideas – be they very ambitious, or impossible, or small, or troublesome – never get left behind.

Photo: Paul Blakemore

We list them because these are all sparks that we want to fire up. Sometimes it takes years for a project to come to fruition, so we’ve got to start somewhere.

If you’d like to know more about any of these projects and/or help us make them happen then please get in touch.

At the moment, The Thirty looks like this:

  1. Father Alberto and the Flying Girl
  2. Vox Humana
  3. Mum.Doc
  4. The Shadow Biosphere
  5. Do You Love Me Now
  6. Nightshift Variations
  7. Heartworm
  8. Babel’s Cupid
  9. Kelli Riley
  10. The Broken Knight
  11. Dark Land Light House VR
  12. SUPERNOVA
  13. ‘Everything Everywhere’
  14. Forest 404
  15. Everyone’s Favourite War
  16. Sex Lies And Videotape
  17. Hauntology
  18. The Chord
  19. A Million Tiny Glitches
  20. Phosphenes
  21. The Opposition
  22. Some of the People
  23. Hypergothic
  24. BUZZARD
  25. Sidekicks
  26. Splinter
  27. Dracula
  28. I Will Do It For Science
  29. Dancing and Apologising
  30. A Broken Consort

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