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A collection of 21 posts

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Interdisciplinary collaboration and good partnership working - reflections on going Wild with Manchester Museum

In the first half of 2024, FF worked with Manchester Museum on a digital interactive for their new exhibition, Wild. The process was smooth - and more importantly, fun and interesting. Here we dig into what makes a good collaboration... and what we learned.

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Looking for ‘Looking for Love’

It’s time we all stopped pretending we make perfect work that turns out just as we planned. This is an honest documentation of a process which taught us a lot.

Making interactive theatre

Do’s and Don’ts of making audience-centric theatre

Here’s some pointers on how to devise theatre and look after the audience while you’re putting them at the centre of what you’re creating.

Making interactive theatre

Creating theatre: 10 principles of devising

For anyone who’s devising theatre, here’s some principles to make your life easier and your work better.

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Collaborator interview: Clemence Debaig

In the first of our collaborator profiles/ interviews, Joe and I caught up with artist Clemence Debaig, who we worked with on The Curse of the Burial Dagger.

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What language please

What happens if you apply start-up logic to being an arts organisation? Turns out that looking at what you do through the lens of another sector shows up the baggage you're carrying.

comedy

Taking comedy seriously

I have a feeling that when you’re making comedy, it's harder to get people to take you seriously. Via Aristotle and Buster Keaton, here's my theory why...

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Travelling without moving

Thinking about inward-looking islands, and what the last year has taught us about actively making space for international encounters.

The Networked Condition

Invisible Flock interview: The Networked Condition

'The Networked Condition: Environmental Impacts of Digital Cultural Production' is a collaborative research project exploring digital arts through an environmental lens. Here we chat to Invisible Flock.

Carbon efficient

How we made our website use 50% less energy

An outline of the technical steps we took on our site – in case anyone else is thinking about tweaking theirs in the name of energy efficiency.

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Making shows, taking care

Devising online has made us all think more about how we care for the folk we're working with... here's some stuff we've learned.

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6 things I learned from digital work and 6 things I learned from remote work

Reflections on transitioning from a theatre director in a theatre to a digital experience maker in my kitchen.

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Hello, you’ve reached tech support

Reflections on using bespoke homemade technology for a live online show.

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10 things we learnt about access (in the broadest sense) while making The Evidence Chamber

We wanted to share what we learned, in the hopes that it will be of use to other people trying to make for digital space in an equitable/ inclusive way. We got some things right and some things... less right.

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Six crime novels that inspired our new show, The Evidence Chamber

This summer we're inviting audiences to become jurors at a murder trial in our new online courtroom drama. We made the show in collaboration with real-life forensic scientists, but also took a lot of inspiration from fiction – here are six books that really stuck with us.

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Reviewing the situation

I don’t think that I had noticed this before: in the Guardian, book reviews are written by other authors. Theatre reviews are not written by other theatre makers. Why?

Carbon efficient

We made our first carbon-neutral project 🎉

Big goal: accomplished. But how? Here’s a not-too-technical breakdown that might contain some useful stuff you can apply to your own digital adventures.

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New forms, old boxes

So theatres are shut - I don’t know if you’d noticed. Some people are making for a new architecture - the internet. But do we have the language to talk about these new forms?

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A work-in-tbc

Last week, I gave myself a reading week. One of the books I read was Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini. Please read it, it’s really very brilliant.

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Collaborating with Scientists

I was recently asked about what my experiences have taught me about partnerships between artists and scientists. I found it a really interesting question to reflect on because we have made quite a lot of work in collaboration with scientists.

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Truth and Lies

There’s an introductions ‘game’ -one of the less awful ones- called ‘2 truths, 1 lie’ - in which you say three things about yourself and the other people in the group have to guess which is the lie. The way to win is to tell a lie that is plausible.