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No Walls, Just Doors
Devised with almost forty members of Stage 2 youth theatre, aged between 10 and 20, No Walls, Just Doors was an attempt to subvert prejudices about theatre made by young people.
Revelling in the number of bodies available on stage, for an hour the show wordlessly passed performers across stage; built and broke tableaux performer by performer; framed and reframed a single figure with different contexts; represented actions in a series of stills and split their directions; obsessively replaced figures in group photographs.
The simplicity of the show, the clarity of it's vision, the concentration and subtlety of the performances and Brian Duffy's excellent soundtrack made it extremely popular with audiences and a pleasure to work on.
Review:
Powerful sound of silence
At first it seemed strange to be watching a wordless play where the cast just moved on and off the stage continuously - running, walking, and strolling.
But then a fascinating picture emerged of lives passing and crossing, and of the many individual struggles.
Scenes were played out within the movement. A woman knelt on the floor distraught, and a spilt vase was placed before her.
The vase was replaced with a woman lying on the floor, presumed dead. The kneeling woman was then given a knife to grip as she stared trance-like at the woman lying before her.
The result was an hour-long original play by a cast of 10 to 20 year-olds that was thought-provoking, moving and sometimes funny.
Carole Beck, Birmingham Evening Mail, 14/1/97.
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