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THE ARCHES / Image: Trilogy Part Three / Photographer: The Arches

Image: Trilogy Part Three
Photographer: The Arches

THE ARCHES

Site-specific work|New text|Live art

SIZE OF COMPANY
5–7 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Jackie Wylie
Production Manager
Abby McMillan

ARTISTIC POLICY
The Arches stages new work, physical and visual theatre, site-specific work, text, and live art – in a style that is immediate, raw, provocative, and courageous. We constantly aim to use the unique atmospherics of our building, making work that responds to our cavernous caves and dark recesses. Recent artists that have produced work with the Arches include: Megan Barker, Nic Green, Cora Bissett, and Murray Wason.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Trilogy: Part Three is an engagingly quirky, celebratory excursion into feminism…A never to be forgotten moment.
The Herald **** (Trilogy: Part Three)
The show has a tremendous rich sensuality that both reflects and celebrates the powerful, earthy energy of the story.
The Scotsman **** (Amada)
Wason…makes potent poetry out of the commonplace and banal. A work you could see over and over, and find more and different elements each time.
The Herald **** (The Last Drop)
Blisteringly good…considerable edge, poetic imagery and dark, twisting comedy. Megan Barker is, already, a name to watch.
The Herald **** (Pit)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Pit
By Megan Barker. A surreal tale of a woman in the American deep south – a physical tale while cooking a meal for a son on death row.
60 mins, no interval, 3 on stage, 6 on the road, strong language and some sexually explicit content
The Last Drop
By Murray Wason. A performance filled with speeches and toasts and rage, like a lecture gone wrong.
Amada
Devised by Cora Bisset from an Isabel Allende short story, an evocative visual story of a prostitute. Music and physical theatre.
65 mins, no interval, 5 on stage, 7 on the road, some strong language

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Trilogy
An epic and exhilarating three-part performance event by Nic Green that interrogates what it means to be a woman today.

WRAP-AROUND
Post-show discussions and drama workshops as required.

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Details on request