Old Haunts
Open Heart Theatre
"Excellent character work, an interesting format with great potential"
Phoenix Remix
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Who: Open Heart Theatre
What: Old Haunts Where: Unity 2 When: 4pm - Friday the 19th of April Age range: 14+ Website: www.openhearttheatre.com Socials: Twitter / X: @scrivvyfloor Tickets: £7/£6 concessions with Unity theatre creative pool membership (free to join) £20 - Pay more option £36 Friday all access ticket - 7 left £78 Weekend all access ticket - SOLD OUT Performed by: Owen Scrivens and team Owen is running a workshop on Sunday exploring emotional truth when using death or grief within your practice. Full details of Death, Dying and Improv are here - Owen Scrivens |
Thanks to Phoenix Remix for the show interview - Old Haunts
https://thephoenixremix.com/2024/04/12/liverpool-improvisation-festival-interview-old-haunts-open-heart-theatre/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0_O2CsKFV63GkS29bb9rRfZJHZmmrsqACUyLHqXJqvCQOb061rPVz0Mx0_aem_AZEogu8VAa9_fkVndgueikOe9414I0pMgymi151rgkciG2okDHwcNLBUwUfRGDERMRVo7sQvzxjr5XWeufoxEXBd |
Old Haunts is an improvised one act play where we are inspired by the idea that every place has a history and that the past echoes through the drama, the relationships and the emotions that happen in the present. Imagine a school that was built on the site of an old hospital, a bar that used to be a boarding house for criminals, or a house that was once the site of a revolutionary plot.
We will be guided by the “Spirits of the Space” as they paint the scene as it is now, tell the tales of the past, and guide us through the story we are seeing. How will the stories of the past haunt the characters that we see now? That is for our performers and our audience to discover together.
This show was originally created for and performed at Newcastle Improvisation Festival in 2017 and has now been developed and adapted to be fully accessible to an audience with visual impairment. “The spirits” of the show will become fully integrated audio-description – one of the joys of this is that the audio description does not only provide accessibility but it gives new layers of interaction for the improvisers to feed off.
The Show was created by Open Heart Theatre - a company that was established to produce open and heartfelt improvisation - The most recent adaptation was developed by a range of improvisers led by SaSS Improv director Owen Scrivens in Sheffield.
We will be guided by the “Spirits of the Space” as they paint the scene as it is now, tell the tales of the past, and guide us through the story we are seeing. How will the stories of the past haunt the characters that we see now? That is for our performers and our audience to discover together.
This show was originally created for and performed at Newcastle Improvisation Festival in 2017 and has now been developed and adapted to be fully accessible to an audience with visual impairment. “The spirits” of the show will become fully integrated audio-description – one of the joys of this is that the audio description does not only provide accessibility but it gives new layers of interaction for the improvisers to feed off.
The Show was created by Open Heart Theatre - a company that was established to produce open and heartfelt improvisation - The most recent adaptation was developed by a range of improvisers led by SaSS Improv director Owen Scrivens in Sheffield.