Felix barrett shakira biography

  • Barrett is a graduate and Honorary Doctorate in Drama of the University of Exeter and was one of the first recipients of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Breakthrough.
  • With his company Punchdrunk, he brought large-scale immersive theatre into the mainstream with a series of hit performance-installations.
  • In The Observer today Liz Hoggart writes a profile of Felix Barrett, Punchdrunk's founder and artistic director.

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    PUNCHDRUNK: A CASE STUDY

    PUNCHDRUNK: A CASE STUDY Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for The mästare of Science in Arts Administration Drexel University bygd Laura M. Keegan, B.F.A. ***** Drexel University 2013 Approved bygd Dr. jean Brody, D.F.A Advisor Graduate Program in Arts ledning Copyright bygd Laura M Keegan 2013 ABSTRACT This case study investigates the growth and development of Punchdrunk, a United Kingdom (U.K.) based Theater Company. Punchdrunk‟s dedication to its aesthetic and brand, combined with dual leadership, creative marketing and inventive partnerships have positioned the organization to reach large audiences and remain nimble in an unstable sector. This paper finds that this organization has risen to the utmaning of maintaining artistic integrity and remaining sustainable, challenges which are faced bygd all nonprofit arts organizations. The combination of traditional funding mechanisms, alternative revenues, creative partnerships and corpora

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    Theatre Room Asia

    Following from my last post, the first thing I want to share today is another BBC Essay: On Directing, this time with director, Barlett Sher:

    Essay: On Directing – Bartlett Sher

    Sher is cut from a different cloth to Emma Rice. He is what I would call a ‘traditional’ director and plays a different role in the theatre world. He has some interesting things to say about the importance of getting transitions and transformation right in theatre as well as talking about the importance of rhythm in theatre making. However, there was a moment that surprised me. He talks about his role in theatre as an ‘interpretive’ art, unlike a visual artist because they start with a blank canvas. He seems to ignore all the new work being created by directors that don’t start with a script or a libretto. In a sense it links to my previous post McTheatre.  I’m not saying for one moment that Sher is one of the Mega-musical mob, but he wou

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    Felix Barrett: Up to his ears in theatre

    Theatre is changing. Can you imagine Sir Peter Hall directing Shakira's world tour, or Sir Nicholas Hytner starting a travel agency? That's what Felix Barrett has been up to recently – and Barrett has a fair claim to have been the hottest theatre director in Britain in the past decade. With his company Punchdrunk, he brought large-scale "immersive" theatre into the mainstream with a series of hit performance-installations – including Sleep No More, an award-winning promenade Macbeth, which has been running for over a year in a warehouse in New York. But commercial success hasn't dimmed his restless experimentalism, says Barrett: "If someone else has done it," he says flatly, "I'm not really interested in doing it myself."

    I'm talking to Barrett on the eve of the revival of The Crash of the Elysium, which sees Doctor Who given the Punchdrunk treatment. The Elysium is a spaceship, and the show starts with the young audience being in