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THEATRE BABEL / Image: Educating Agnes / Photographer: Douglas McBride

Image: Educating Agnes
Photographer: Douglas McBride

THEATRE BABEL

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SIZE OF COMPANY
11–15 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to large

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Graham McLaren
Associate Producer
Kate Bowen

ARTISTIC POLICY
Theatre Babel stages adaptations and new versions of world classics. In 10 years the company has produced a wide range of award-winning work: from Shakespeare to Molière, from Chekhov to ancient Greek tragic myths; from large-scale productions to one man plays – and including some seminal commissions from some of Scotland’s most celebrated playwrights and poets. Theatre Babel productions have a distinctive style that is visually powerful and uses minimal sets.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
I’ve seldom seen such clarity…unexpectedly moving…not to be missed.
The Sunday Times (Macbeth)
A fabulous script...production full of pace, energy and smart timing...excellent cast.
The Telegraph (Educating Agnes)
Theatre Babel...the great style house of the Scottish stage.
Mail On Sunday

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Macbeth  
William Shakespeare. Brilliantly realised, Macbeth is a masterpiece of violence, guilt and the quest for power. Visually striking set using 30 full size suspended broad swords. (90 mins, 15 on the road.)
Volpone  
Ben Jonson. Venice 1606. The beautiful and debauched party capital of Europe. A deliciously vicious satire of a dazzling and godless world ripe with greed, lust and ambition. (90 mins, approx 13 on the road.)
School for Wives or Educating Agnes: Moliere (Liz Lochhead).  
This collaboration between theatrebabel and Liz Lochhead is an electrifying, ribald and wonderfully witty new version from one of Scotland’s most celebrated playwrights, known for her exceptional adaptations of Moliere (90 mins, approx 12 on the road)

WRAP-AROUND
Workshops and lectures available on the production, process and related themes.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 Hong Kong: Macbeth
2005 Malaysia, Philippines: Macbeth
2004 Taiwan: A Doll’s House
2003 Cyprus, Taiwan: Thebans

TOURING AVAILABILITY
From January 2009