What shall I do with my hands? A panel discussion at Northumbria University

Earlier this year, Quarantine’s Richard Gregory became Visiting Fellow at Northumbria University. Richard has since been invited to take part in a Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) event on verbatim, documentary, biographical and autobiographical performance practices, hosted by the university on Thursday 11 May. Training to give evidence is a one day event which seeks to […]

Summer in the city

‘Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, chairs, food, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other thing that will be discovered by the present generation of artists. Not only will these bold creators show us, as if for the first time, the world we […]

A final note from the rehearsal room

I remember having a conversation with Richard (the director) last summer, where he talked about where the original idea for Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. had come from. For him, it had started to form two years earlier whilst on holiday in Ireland, on a run by the sea in West Cork. As he was running […]

A performer’s reflections on Summer.

Last night, you watched a boy come back. A moment later, the adult he’d become, returned. His eyes had sparked as he’d said something to tease you. There was a freedom you noticed, that animated his face and this energy rippled through his body. Then he was calm again, as you’ve usually seen him. You […]

On Time

Towards the end of the Summer. rehearsal on Saturday, Caroline asks: Is time slowing down or speeding up? One of the performers answers: Time is dragging for me at the moment. I find it fascinating that our basic measures of time are the same (60 seconds in a minute, 24 hours in a day, 52 […]

Making maps for Autumn.

The reality of premiering a quartet of performances is the need to be creating, developing and rehearsing four pieces of work simultaneously. This is the case with Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring., with the week divided between planning meetings, core team rehearsals, evening and weekend rehearsals with the performers for Summer. and Spring., and on-going conversations […]

People watching and performance scores: A return to Summer.

On the first day of the first week of rehearsals, we watch the film of the first version of Summer. from June 2014, which was made with and about its 37 performers (you can watch the trailer here.) Summer. was the first element of the quartet to come into existence, so the creative team return […]

The beginnings of Spring.

In the rehearsal room on the first floor of HOME, three long wooden tables are set out in the space, creating a square surrounded by orange plastic chairs. On the table there is a spread of curry, rice, spiced potatoes, fruit, biscuits. In the corner there is a smaller table with an urn, surrounded by […]