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Tuning Out With Radio Z: Credits
PROGRAM NOTES
Devised and Improvised by:
Amanda Hadingue & Craig Stephens
Direction & Off-Stage Improvisation: James Yarker
Sound, Station Branding and Software: Jon Ward
Lighting Design & Improvisation: Paul Arvidson
VJ Consultancy: Liam D'Authreau
Photography: Various Artists
Set Construction: A E Harris (Birmingham Ltd.)
Graphic design: Simon Ford
Production Assistants: Esther Belvis Pons, Diego Alejandro de la Vega Wood
General Manager: Charlotte Martin
Advisory Producer: Nick Sweeting
With thanks to: everyone at home, at the office, at Rhubarb Radio and at mac for keeping the faith.
Tuning Out With Radio Z is a MAC commission.
Programme Notes.
I don't normally hold with extensive programme notes as I believe shows should be able to speak
for themselves. Here, however, in order for you to get the most from the show, there are some
things it would be good for you to know in advance, so here are some notes.
Your Contribution.
This show is improvised so there is space in it for your contributions. There are three ways to submit writing and ideas:
Please leave your mobile phones ON, turn them to silent and text in short contributions to: 07896 592515
Contribute On-line via the newsroom at www.radioz.co.uk, where you can compose longer contributions, respond to requests for material and see what other people are submitting. mac's open wireless network is available for you to go online and the venue's New Media suite is at your disposal with friendly assistance
if you don't have a wireless device with you.
e-mail if you can get online but for some reason don't fancy the
News Room, you can email news@radioz.co.uk.
"There is probably no more interesting company working in the UK today"
Lynn Gardner in The Guardian
Why Improvisation?
Improvisation is a technique we use regularly in private to test out ideas and generate
material for new shows. Over the years I have been privileged to sit as solitary witness
to many, many hours of improvisation. These improvisations are always experiment and, as
with all experiments, sometimes they succeed and sometimes they don't. Usually you learn
something, and occasionally you witness a transcendental moment when something sparks and
a breathtaking, illuminating theatrical phenomenon occurs. Unfortunately, it is always
more difficult to capture these moments and repeat them in a show than it is to create
them in the first place. Often I have wished there was an audience in the rehearsal room
to share this excitement with. Now we have made the improvisation the show. Tonight you
are sure to see small-scale experiments succeeding and failing. We hope that you consider
this show-scale experiment a success, or at the very least an enjoyable failure.
Each of these three mac shows is themed. The themes are known in advance
so the performers can do some thinking, but beyond this everything is improvised.
"At the heart of most of Stan's Cafe's works there is a simple idea, which is then
pursued with an extreme boldness bordering on recklessness."
David Tushingham, Festwoch Wein
Why So Long?
We don't want this show to be watched in a conventional way, so we have
extended its duration to do away with conventional rhythms. In theory you
can come and go as you please (and if you go home before it's finished you
can listen on to the conclusion via www.radioz.co.uk). In practice, we hope
you stay forever – or at least until the end.
Other Things.
Please feel free to take photographs (without flash). You are welcome to share
them on the web, but please do not post them whilst the show is running as we
wish to reward you, the live audience, with exclusive access to the show's visual material.
Please don't shoot video of the show (theatre looks so RUBBISH on video).
Thanks for coming.
James Yarker, for Stan's Cafe
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