My Research at The Lift Living Archive

Over the past 5 months I have been doing research at LIFT(London International Festival of Theater) as a placement for my MA studies at Goldsmiths college. The LIFT living archive is a record of Lift's work inviting international theater companies to London from 1981 to 2001. As a culmination to this work I have designed an on-line trail comparing two theater productions, Al Kasaba's "Alive from Palestine" production  (2001) and Katona Joszef's Three sisters and The Government Inspector productions from Hungary (1989). Click on Foreign theatre in a foreign land to view the trail

The trail will also be part of a Symposium on Documenting Practices being held this Thursday at the Central School of Speech and Drama. I have copied the splurge on it below.

Documenting Theatre Symposium:

Will sample different approaches to documenting theatre. It questions how and why we document this live art form, and explores the issues, practices and challenges involved. It particularly addresses the use of new technologies in documentation in a digital age. The Exhibition includes material from the National Theatre digital archive, Cameron Mackintosh archive, Rambert archive and the LIFT Living Archive, drawings by Rae Smith for War Horse, technical video storyboards by mesmer, books by Ernst Fischer, rehearsal drawings by Quentin Blake, photographs by Manuel Vason and a range of experimental documentation by Central practitioners.

The Symposium, at 3:00pm on Thursday 6 November, features two round table discussions, with representatives from the V&A's National Video Archive of Performance, the Royal Opera House new media department, the National Theatre Archive, the Musicians' Union and intellectual property law, as well as contributions from theatre practitioners/designers including Rae Smith, Mervyn Millar, Gareth Fry, Gregg Fisher, Sven Ortel and David Harradine. Admission is free

To reserve a place at the Symposium, email cett@cssd.ac.uk or call +44 (0)20 7449 1571
www.cssd.ac.uk
Embassy Theatre and Studio, The Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, Eton Avenue, London NW3 3HY