Keynote Session: Tim Crouch What we Talk about When We Talk About Theatre
What We Talk About When We Talk About Theatre Speaker: Tim CrouchTime: 14:00 – 15:30Location: O’Reilly Theatre
Tim Crouch was an actor for many years before he began to write, and has continued to perform in his own work, including his plays My Arm (2003), An Oak Tree (2005) and England (2007). His next play, The Author, opens at the Royal Court, London this autumn.
In his keynote address Tim will explore the ways we think and talk about live performance, taking a microscope to the notion of theatre as figurative make-believe. He'll consider whether we are still relying too much on old forms and vocabularies to tell new stories. Can we invigorate our thought and practice by looking beyond theatre and considering other art disciplines? And if so, how can we bring our audience along?
Biography
Tim Crouch was an actor for many years before he started to write. He continues to perform in his own work. His first play, My Arm, opened at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 2003 and has toured internationally with runs in New York, London and Bray. His adaptation for BBC radio won the 2005 Prix Italia for Best Adapted Drama. In 2005 he premiered An Oak Tree at the Traverse. A play that requires a different second actor each time it is performed, An Oak Tree ran at Soho Theatre, London, and won an Obie from its Off-Broadway run in 2006/7. It also played in Bray where the second actors were Barry McGovern, Denis Conway, Deirdre Roycroft and Martin Murphy. His third play, England, has not been to Bray. It played at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2008 and has toured successfully since it opened in Edinburgh in 2007. This spring England is running at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.
Tim is an Education Associate at the National Theatre, London, and has taught extensively around the world. His plays for young audiences include Shopping For Shoes, winner of the 2007 Brian Way Award for children’s playwriting and his I, Shakespeare trilogy which ran at the Unicorn Theatre in London, Brighton Festival and the Bath Shakespeare Festival.
Tim’s next play, The Author, opens at the Royal Court in London this autumn.