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M6 is always
interested and excited about pushing the boundaries
of form and content across the Company’s wide
range of work.
Take 3 was an experimental skills sharing project involving
the core team and 16 artists exploring a shared story
through 3 different theatre forms – movement,
film and mime.
As part of M6’s Cross Currents research and development
project, funded by a Grants for the Arts Award, M6 worked
with 3 small teams of performers led by three different
art form specialists – Jane Devoy, Steve Harper
and Mark Whitelaw.
Over a period of three hot days in July 2005, the groups
worked on the same starting point i.e. two ‘scenes’
from the storyline of a new M6 commissioned play by
Mary Cooper. Using the forms of mask, movement or performance/film
each group explored and interpreted the ‘scenes’
through their allocated art form – culminating
in a sharing of the remarkable and beautiful results
to an invited audience.
M6 were delighted with the success of this unique R&D
project and are keen to build similar experiments into
their ongoing programme.
“Really powerful and beautiful.
I’ve never seen any work with masks before and
it amazed me! The emotion was so strong and I empathised
with all the characters at different times”
“The filmed images evoked atmospheres instantly
and set each scene really effectively. The whole feel
of the piece really worked”
“Great, inspiring physical theatre with limited
but well chosen text. Vodka drinking scene created real
tension. Lighting/Black box worked brilliantly."
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