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DREAMTHINKSPEAK

  (1999 - )
Nationality:    English
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Created in 1999 by artistic director Tristan Sharps, dreamthinkspeak creates site-responsive works that interweave live performance with film and installations to create extraordinary journeys that are artistically ambitious, visually layered and popular with audiences wherever they are performed. Over the years, the company has evolved into a highly committed collection of collaborators, recognised by the Peter Brook/empty Space/equity ensemble award 2010 for "adventurous achievement in developing an ensemble of technicians, actors, directors, writers and musicians in surprising sites and venues, in a structure that is innovative in its own right". dreamthinkspeak are associate artists of the Brighton Festival and Dome.

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         Absent         Before I Sleep         Don't Look Back         In the Begining Was the End         One Day, Maybe         One Step Forward, One Step Back         Rest Is Silence, The         Underground         Who Goes there?

Absent

Synopsis:
Threading its way through the maze-like basements of Shoreditch Town Hall, ABSENT is a multi-layered journey mixing film, installation and a haunting soundtrack by Lapalux to create an increasingly labyrinthine dream world that merges past, present and future. ABSENT is partly inspired by The Duchess of Argyll's residence at a central London hotel from the 1970s until the 80s, when she was finally evicted having run out of friends and credit.

Notes:
conceived by Tristan Sharps

1st Produced:
basements of Shoreditch Town Hall    24 Aug 2015

Organisations:
commissioned by Shoreditch Town Hall, LIFT and LeftCoast

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
site responsive performance

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Before I Sleep

Synopsis:
the characters in Chekhov's greatest plays inhabit a world on the verge of collapse. they look out to the future and wonder what life will be like in years to come, unaware that, for them, it is about to change Dramatically and irreversibly., their future is now our present. the starting point is Firs. Left alone at the end of the Cherry Orchard, the elderly manservant unwittingly traverses an entire century on an odyssey to retrieve his past. as we journey alongside him, we experience a richly inventive and ever-changing landscape of performance, film and installation created and inhabited by performers, architects, model makers and art designers.

Notes:
Commissioned by Brighton Festival. A site-responsive promenade production inspired by the Cherry Orchard, specially designed for the former Co-operative department store on London Road

1st Produced:
Old Co-Op Buildingbrighton Festival    05 May 2010

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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  11            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXX (2010) Page 0614

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Don't Look Back

Synopsis:
as you wander through the building's atmosphEric interior, you will experience an accumulation of sounds, shadows, whispers, modelled landscapes, musical fragments and fleeting film images, conveying a heightened, dreamlike state that lingers long in the subconscious. Orpheus and eurydice, one of the greatest of all ancient myths, is about the perils of looking back. the moment he turns his head to see eurydice slipping back down into the Underworld, Orpheus is locked into limbo - yearning for the past, unable to exist in the present and refusing to face the future.

Notes:
Co-commissioned by the Gardner Arts Centre. Don't Look Back is A new site-specific piece specially designed for the grand And faded Georgian Manor House At Stanmer Park. In groups of up to three people you Are left to find your way through its hauntingly silent hallways And stairwells. Please note: Your journey begins And ends At the Gardner Arts Centre. Time journeys lasting 60 minutes for up to three people will leave the Gardner Arts Centre At 5 minute intervals.

1st Produced:
Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton Festival    03 May 2003

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  18 actors

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXIII (2003) Page 1285; http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXIV (2004) Page 0712; http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXV (2005) Page 1324

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In the Begining Was the End

Synopsis:
Take a journey through the maze-like underground passages and unseen spaces of King's College and Somerset House into a world of calamitous accidents and divine revelations. Mixing Leonardo-inspired hydraulics and modern mechanical engineering with dreamthinkspeaks special blend of film, installation and live performance, it reveals a vision of the world either on the verge of collapse - or the brink of rebirth.

Notes:
conceived by Tristan Sharps

1st Produced:
Somerset House, London    28 Jan 2013

Organisations:
presented by Somerset House and King's Cultural Institute

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Music:
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One Day, Maybe

Synopsis:
We have been developing this new project in South Korea and Japan, which we hope to bring to the UK in the near future. the piece looks at the dramatic transformation that has occurred in the region over the past 30 years, through the lens of a little-known uprising that took place in Gwangju, South Korea, in May 1980. the tragic events of that period led directly to the birth of democracy that now flourishes in South Korea, dramatically changing both the political and economic fortunes of the country, and reflecting the struggles for democracy in our own world. What if those young people who are now dead could step into the shoes of the young people alive today? What would they make of the world we now live in? they would see a world where Liberty and Democracy have spread rapidly across a range of countries. Or would they? This will be the first time we have developed an entirely new piece of work outside of the UK. Tristan Sharps will be leading a core dreamthinkspeak team to work alongside Japanese and Korean technicians and artists, which includes a company of 30 performers. the project will be developed in the autumn in Gwanju before moving to Kochi and Kanazawa in Japan, with plans to fully develop and re-create the project in the UK in the near future.

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One Step Forward, One Step Back

Synopsis:
Dante's Paradiso transposed from the imagined journey from Hell to Paradise to the nooks, crannies and galleries of Liverpool Cathedral.
- Lynne Walker, Independant

Notes:
conceived by Tristan Sharps

1st Produced:
Liverpool Cathedral    07 Apr 2008

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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  14 performers

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXVIII (2008) Page 0440

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Rest Is Silence, The

Synopsis:
a man's Father dies and his world tips into free-fall. He does not know who to trust or what to believe in. He has no rulebook. there are no easy guidelines that show him how to feel or how to behave. His world is our world. This thrillingly visual deconstruction of Shakespeare's Hamlet interweaves performance and film to create a vigorous new interpretation of a well-known classic. enclosed on all sides within a uniquely designed structure, we are drawn into a richly cinematic and dreamlike world. Scenes, film streams and visual sequences converge and collide, examining the play's themes and characters simultaneously and from a variety of angles. as we spy on the unfolding action, we become enmeshed in the messy duplicity of the charactersi tangled relationships, watching in horror at the unravelling of their private lives and the collapse of their world.

Notes:
Co-commissioned by Brighton Festival with LIFT And the Royal Shakespeare Company. Part of the World Shakespeare Festival which is produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company for London 2012 Festival.

1st Produced:
Malthouse Estate Warehouse, Brighton Festival    02 May 2012

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Genre:
Piece 90 min

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Underground

Synopsis:
Dostoyevsky's most famous novel centres on Raskolnikov, an impoverished student who commits a gruesome murder and is forced to come to terms with his crime through the living nightmare of his frantic search for redemption.Underground recreates the feverish atmosphere of Dostoyevsky's world by leading the audience through the corridors, stairwells, basements and backrooms of the labyrinthine theatre Royal. With the freedom to follow a character or narrative thread, or to wander through the interconnecting maze of spaces, where scenes, fragments, film images and chance encounters merge, transform and dissolve, Underground is like a constantly shifting hallucinatory dream.

Notes:
adapted from Crime And Punishment by Dostoevsky

1st Produced:
Brighton, Th. Royal Stage Door    24 May 2005

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  chorus

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXV (2005) Page 0752; http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXV (2005) Page 1358

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Who Goes there?

Synopsis:
Hamlet deconstructed. the audience are immersed into the world of elsinore, witnessing, overhearing and eavesdropping on the action in this exciting promenade production which uses every space in the Gardner Arts Centre.

Notes:
directed by Tristan Sharps

1st Produced:
Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton Festival    08 May 2001

Organisations:
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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Large Cast

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXII (2002) Page 0785

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