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Static
A Suspect Culture and Graeae theatre company production
''ferociously powerful...'' Finanial Times * * * *
''mesmerising theatre...'' Time Out * * * * *
Static is a story of love, loss and compilation tapes. A young woman has lost her husband and discovering a compilation tape that he made but never gave her, she becomes convinced it contains a secret message. Static fuses music, dialogue, sign language and audio description to explore our complex response to love and loss.
- Direction: Graham Eatough and Jenny Sealey
- Script: Dan Rebellato
- Design: Ian Scott
- Sound Design: Kenny McLeod
- Performers: Jeni Draper, Pauline Lockhart, Tom Thomasson and Steven Webb.
Missing
A Suspect Culture and 55 Degrees production
''This is excellent work, beautifully shot in a variety of locations, with a real depth. Based on The Missing by Andrew O'Hagan, this is a haunting piece'' Eye for Eye * * * *
Missing examines the experience of those left behind when a loved one disappears without warning or explanation. It follows Rachel through a day in her life without Paul, her husband who’s been missing for 8 years. We see her trying to come to terms with the insurmountable fact of not knowing; why he left, where he is, and if he’s ever coming back. Missing explores the painful imaginings that fill this vacuum and the stories we tell ourselves when we just don’t know.
- Direction and Text: Graham Eatough
- Producer: Kat Calton
- Director of Photography: Oliver Cheesman
- Art Director : Amanda Currie
- Music: Nick Powell
- Performers: Barbara Rafferty, Vincent Friell,Callum Cuthbertson, Charles Donnelly, Morag Stark, Marion Sangster, Caroline McKeller, Ian Sexon
Futurology: A Global Revue
A Suspect Culture, National Theatre of Scotland and Brighton Festival co-production
2007
'Bold, original, confident...Futurology is a present-day delight' The Guardian * * * *
'...no serious fan of 21st-century theatre should miss it' The Scotsman * * * *
The future's coming towards us at a hundred miles an hour. Do you ever feel like a rabbit caught in the headlights? The oil's running out, the climate is changing, China's on the rise. Meanwhile we're left wondering how to act now. Is there something we should be doing? Is it ok to be doing nothing? Thankfully, the powers that be have called a conference to discuss all this and make the big decisions for us. Futurology is the story of that conference. Futurology explores the big questions in a darkly comic show packed full of song, dance, ventriloquism and Suspect Culture's trademark theatrical style.
- Direction: Graham Eatough
- Dramaturgy:David Greig and Dan Rebellato
- Design: Patrick Macklin and Ian Scott
- Music: Nick Powell
- Arrangements: Nick Powell and the band
- With contributions from Suspect Culture's associate artists Renato Gabrielli, Mauricio Paroni de Castro, Andres Lima and Sergio Romano
- Performers:Raphaelle Boitel (Lithuania), David Carr (Singapore), Angela de Castro (Patrice), Callum Cuthbertson (Trinidad), Robert Melling (Pianist), Robert Moss (Trombonist), Robert Owen (Drummer), Maria Victoria Di Pace (New Zealand), Jon Thorne (Double Bassist), Grant Smeaton (Mayor), Sharon Smith (Tobago) and Morag Stark (Protocol).
- Warren Speed, Edd Muir, Catriona Paterson (Futurologists)
Killing Time
A Suspect Culture and Dundee Contemporary Arts co-production
2006
'Killing Time is undoubtedly one of the most compelling and exhilarating Scottish visual arts projects in recent years.' The List * * * * *
'Killing Time, then, is made of powerful stuff. It illuminates four well-known plays, and it will change the way you think about art, performance and the space between the two' The Herald
Killing Time, an exciting fusion of performance, sculpture, installation and event, ended its eight-week long installation at Dundee Contemporary Arts on 5 November. The co-production between Dundee Contemporary Arts and Suspect Culture involved a unique artistic collaboration between the company's director Graham Eatough and visual artist Graham Fagen.
The Killing Time publication by Graham Eatough and Graham Fagen is a unique collection of 63 full colour images from the exhibition and includes an introductory essay by curator Katrina Brown. For a copy with free postage and packing, please contact us.
Design: Pause Button Edit
September 2007
96pp
195mm x 142mm
Edition: 1000
Published in conjunction with Dundee Contemporary Arts
ISBN: 0-9542026-8-6
£12.95
The Escapologist
A Suspect Culture, Tramway and Drum Theatre Plymouth co-production
2006
Quick-witted and sad, moving and absurd, The Escapologist is a celebration of theatricality, using live music, silent film and pitch-perfect dialogue to tell the stories if its characters ñ and the story of Harry Houdini, whose amazing stunts somehow relate to them all...
- Direction: Graham Eatough
- Text: Simon Bent
- Design: Laura Hopkins
- Lighting Design: Ian Scott
- Music: David Paul Jones
- Performers: Paul Blair, Selina Boyack, Mary Anne Lynch Small, Kevin McMonagle, Tommy Mullins, Talia Winn
A Different Language
A Suspect Culture and il Rossetti co-production
2005
A Different Language is a before-love-story set in a world of internet chatrooms, life-coaches and easyJet. The story follows two single people, one Italian, one British, as they search for that one perfect person who will be their soulmate.
- Direction: Graham Eatough
- Text: Renato Gabrielli
- Design: Luigi Mattiazzi
- Sound Design: Kenny MacLeod
- Performers: Sergio Romano, Selina Boyack
8000m
Co-produced by Tramway
2004
'One of the most effective pieces of total theatre I've seen in recent years.' Radio 4, Saturday Review
'...a stunning coup de theatre.' Sunday Herald
A sell out production dramatising the experience of climbing the highest mountains in the world..
- Direction: Graham Eatough
- Text: David Greig
- Design: Ian Scott
- Co-lighting design: Paul Sorley
- Composer: Nick Powell
- Performers: Selina Boyack, Eric Barlow, John Macaulay, Phil McKee, Matthew Pidgeon, Paul Blair, Catherine Keating
One-Two..
CCA Creative Lab
2003
'...the music is mesmeric and the event as a whole is exactly the kind of adventurous overturning of form that we should be seeing...' The Independent
Part play, part gig, One, Two.. harnessed the raw energy of live music and the emotional landscape of theatre to tell the story of what life would be like with your own personal soundtrack. Performed in Edinburgh (Traverse), Glasgow (Tron), St Andrews (Byre), Paisley (Arts), Aberdeen (Lemon Tree), Stirling (Tolbooth), Manchester (Contact), Birmingham (IETM).
- Direction and Text: Graham Eatough
- Music: Nick Powell and Oskar
- Design: Ian Scott
- Video: Shiona McCubbin
- Performers: Sharon Smith, Faroque Khan
Lament
Six Stages Festival, Toronto
2002/2003
'...this remains extraordinary theatre - intimate and universal, local and global and as indulgently heart-warming as the saddest song.' The Guardian
A poem for the theatre examining the sadness and absurdities of the state we're in today. Performed in Glasgow (Tron), Edinburgh (Traverse), Paisley (Arts), St Andrews (Byre), Aberdeen (Lemon Tree), Manchester (Royal Exchange).
- Direction: Graham Eatough
- Text: David Greig
- Design: Ian Scott
- Music: Nick Powell
- Performers: Graham Eatough, Kate Dickie, Louise Ludgate, Paul Blair, Callum Cuthbertson, David Ireland (on tour), Catherine Keating (on tour), Nick Powell
Casanova
Co-produced with the Tron Theatre, Glasgow
2001
'...a fascinating piece of theatre, formidable in its intelligence, and admirable in its emotional courage.' The Scotsman
A scathing examination of contemporary sex and morality. Performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Edinburgh (Royal Lyceum), Paisley (Arts), Stirling (MacRobert), Aberdeen (Lemon Tree), Dundee (Rep) and Newcastle (Northern Stage).
- Direction: Graham Eatough
- Text: David Greig
- Design: Ian Scott
- Music: Nick Powell
- Performers: Gavin Mitchell, Paul Blair, Mabel Aitken, Anne Marie Timoney (on tour), Vicki Liddell, Louise Ludgate, Alan Williams, Callum Cuthbertson (on tour)
Golden Ass
Co-produced with the Tron Theatre, Glasgow
2000
'...theatre as it should be: a physical and intellectual thrill, a challenge and, at times, a puzzle.' The Guardian
Devised with a group of young people from the James Shield Project, Gorbals, the show tells the story of Lucius, a Brazilian storyteller and magician, lost in the city of Glasgow. A wild satirical tale about the effects of wealth and power on modern-day society.
The Golden Ass was performed at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow in December 2000.
- Direction: Mauricio Paroni de Castro and Graham Eatough
- Text: Mauricio Paroni de Castro
- Design: Laura Trevisan and Giampaolo Kohler
- Lighting: Dave Shea
- Music: Nick Powell
- Performers: Sergio Romano, Silvia Soares, Members of the James Shield Project
Candide
Co-produced with Tramway, Glasgow
2000
'A winningly ingenious adaptation of a literary classic and an admirable example of that most difficult of genres, young people's theatre' The Daily Telegraph
A contemporary staging of Voltaire's classic story, set in the bright world of the modern shopping centre and developed with groups of young people from the cities visited. Performed in Edinburgh (Fruitmarket and Royal Lyceum), Inverness (Eden Court), Aberdeen (Lemon Tree), Newcastle (Northern Stage).
Colin McCredie and Jill Riddiford in Candide, photo © Kevin Low
- Direction: Graham Eatough
- Text: David Greig
- Design: Ian Scott
- Music: Nick Powell
- Performers: Paul Blair, Grant Smeaton, Colin McCredie, Lucy McLellan, Jill Riddiford and young people from the cities visited
- Musicians: Nick Powell, Lucy Wilkins, Colin Morrison
Mainstream
Bush Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe and Dublin Fringe
1999/2000
'This is a hard, cruel, beautiful show, almost mathematical in its precision. The coolness of the performance style is in perfect harmony with the piece's icy images' The Guardian
Widely regarded as one of the classics of the 1990s, this story of two people who meet in a three star seaside hotel quietly and movingly unravels the fabric of two ordinary lives. Performed around Scotland and on tour in Greece, Croatia, Bulgaria and Prague.
- Direction: Graham Eatough
- Text: David Greig
- Design: Ian Scott
- Music: Nick Powell
- Performers: Kate Dickie, Louise Ludgate, Paul Hickey, Callum Cuthbertson, Gabriel Quigley (on tour), Nathan Pope (on tour)
Local
Produced in collaboration with Castlemilk Video Workshop.
1997/1998
The culmination of eleven workshop sessions with young people from all over Glasgow, Local dealt with young people's relationships with the city through their aspirations and fears for the future. The company presented Local at Tramway in May 1998.
- Direction: Graham Eatough
- Text: David Greig
- Design: Ian Scott
- Video: Steve Jackson
- Performers: Young people from all over Glasgow
Timeless
Edinburgh International Festival
1997/1998
'...thrillingly theatrical...' The Times
'...director Graham Eatough, Greig and the company have made a work of world class.' The Herald
Won Scotland On Sunday Critic's Award 1997. It is the story of four friends whose present past and future lives are delicately intertwined. Performed in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen and at the Donmar Warehouse, London.
- Direction: Graham Eatough
- Text: David Greig
- Design: Ian Scott
- Music: Nick Powell
- Performers: Paul Hickey, Kate Dickie, Molly Innes, Keith Macpherson
- Musicians: Lucy Wilkins, Ruth Gottlieb, Rebecca Ware, Jo Richards
Airport
Co-produced by Tramway, Glasgow
1996/1997
'...a turbo charged, twin-engined delight...' The Independent
'Triunfa en Escocia' El Mundo
An exploration of identity and language, set in the glossy world of international travel. Performed in Edinburgh, Spain (Madrid, Basque Country, 1998) and Italy (Scotfest, Milan).
- Direction: David Greig and Graham Eatough
- Text: David Greig
- Design: Evelyn Barbour
- Music: Nick Powell
- Performers: Graham Eatough, Cecilia Solaguren, Silvia Carmona, Jill Riddiford, Andres Lima, Stuart Bowman, Alan Wilkins (on tour)
One Way Street
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
1995/1996
'One Way Street is a power packed, memorable little piece full of romance, imagination and promise'. Scotland on Sunday
A guided tour around former East Berlin, exploring the idea of personal history as geography. Performed in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Germany (1997) (Magdeburg, Munich, Chemnitz, Dresden).
- Direction and Text: David Greig
- Design: Katherine Lindo
- Video: Sarah Ward and Rachel Seffert
- Performers: Graham Eatough