Winner of The Award Title Event of the Year
Adapted and directed by Ben Harrison
From the novel by Erlend Loe, translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw
An outdoor, site-responsive performance for a seated audience.
Documentary film, Doppler: The Story So Far was originally available online from 7pm on 26th March to midnight 9th May.
The Documentary
Doppler: The Story So Far
Running Time: 67 minutes / Age recommendation: 14+
We hope you enjoy it!
The film is also available with English captions, Norwegian subtitles and BSL interpretation. You can find links to those versions of the film here.
Support Us
If you’d like to support us to make live performances of Doppler happen when we’re able, or any of the other work that we’re doing, we would be extremely grateful.
AWARDS
I am a man of my time. A failed man of my time. Or just a man of a failed time. Depending how you look at it.
Doppler has everything. Wife, two kids, 23 hour working week, time to ride his bicycle. Until the accident. Going off-grid, site-specific multi-award winners Grid Iron present an outrageously funny counter-cultural tale of living in the woods with an adopted elk.
That, at least, was the plan. Those are the 40 words that were going to make up our 2020 Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme entry until Covid-19 came along and caused us, along with the rest of the world, to radically rethink our plans.
All through Spring and into the Summer, however, we remained hopeful that, because Doppler had already been conceived as an outdoor show, for a small audience and in a location that would allow us to physically distance everyone, actors from audience and everyone from each other, we might at least manage a few live performances towards the end of August.
And everything, for a time, was moving in the right direction. Having made radical adjustments to how things would run, reduced the audience size even further, created copious safety protocols and consulted with our fantastic cast and production team, as well as our audience (via our mailing list) every step of the way, we came tantalisingly close to going live in what would have been the last week of the festival month.
So close, in fact, that the production team were actually in packed vans waiting for the call to say they could move onto site. But unfortunately, at the final moment, we were unable to secure the last piece of permission to allow us to move onsite in time to safely and adequately prepare. With very heavy hearts we moved to our Plan B, which, thanks to our incredible production team, was already a very thorough, exciting and realisable plan even if it wasn’t our preferred one.
A short time later we found ourselves in the beautiful verdant surroundings of Gifford Community Woodland in East Lothian, with our team now including a Director of Photography and a Sound Engineer, preparing to capture a film of the show.
And everything, for a time, was moving in the right direction.
But then Storm Francis rolled on to our shores and, once again, we had to make radical adjustments to our plans. But adjust we did and shortly you will be able to view online, a film that will give you a tantalising glimpse of scenes from the show that you will be able to come and see live next year but also a flavour of the challenges we, and many others, faced trying to make theatre in the time of Covid.
We will announce when and how you will be able to view the film here and on our social media channels so please, keep your eyes peeled and we look forward to welcoming you into the world of Doppler.
I am a man of my time. A failed man of my time. Or just a man of a failed time. Depending how you look at it.
Doppler has everything. Wife, two kids, 23 hour working week, time to ride his bicycle. Until the accident. Going off-grid, site-specific multi-award winners Grid Iron present an outrageously funny counter-cultural tale of living in the woods with an adopted elk.
That, at least, was the plan. Those are the 40 words that were going to make up our 2020 Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme entry until Covid-19 came along and caused us, along with the rest of the world, to radically rethink our plans.
All through Spring and into the Summer, however, we remained hopeful that, because Doppler had already been conceived as an outdoor show, for a small audience and in a location that would allow us to physically distance everyone, actors from audience and everyone from each other, we might at least manage a few live performances towards the end of August.
And everything, for a time, was moving in the right direction. Having made radical adjustments to how things would run, reduced the audience size even further, created copious safety protocols and consulted with our fantastic cast and production team, as well as our audience (via our mailing list) every step of the way, we came tantalisingly close to going live in what would have been the last week of the festival month.
So close, in fact, that the production team were actually in packed vans waiting for the call to say they could move onto site. But unfortunately, at the final moment, we were unable to secure the last piece of permission to allow us to move onsite in time to safely and adequately prepare. With very heavy hearts we moved to our Plan B, which, thanks to our incredible production team, was already a very thorough, exciting and realisable plan even if it wasn’t our preferred one.
A short time later we found ourselves in the beautiful verdant surroundings of Gifford Community Woodland in East Lothian, with our team now including a Director of Photography and a Sound Engineer, preparing to capture a film of the show.
And everything, for a time, was moving in the right direction.
But adjust we need and now you are able to view online, a documentary film that gives you a tantalising glimpse of scenes from the show that you will hopefully soon be able to come and see live, insights from leading arts industry professionals and a flavour of the challenges we, and many others, faced trying to make theatre in the time of Covid.
What The Press Said
View the Documentary
Doppler: The Story So Far is available free to view from 7pm on Friday 26th March until midnight on Friday 9th May. Age recommendation 14+
We hope you enjoy it!
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Cast
Keith Fleming
Sean Hay
Itxaso Moreno
David A. Pollock
Production Team
Writer & Director:
Ben Harrison
Producer:
Judith Doherty
Finance & Development Manager:
Deborah Crewe
Dramaturg:
Eszter Marsalko
Composer & Live Foley Artist:
David A. Pollock
Set & Costume Designer:
Becky Minto
Puppet Designer:
Fergus Dunnet
Lighting Designer:
Elle Taylor
Production Manager:
Elle Taylor
Technical Manager:
Roy Fairhead
Deputy Stage Manager:
Kara Jackson
Technical Stage Manager:
Ellie Agnew
Production Design Assistant:
Megan Adair
Social Media Manager and Film-maker:
Delilah Rose Niel
Production Design Placement:
Rachael Light
Director of Photography:
Andrew Begg
Sound Engineer:
Angus McPake
Film Editor:
Bill Thompson
Dubbing Mixer:
Ali Murray
Film Advisor:
Andrew Abbott
Press & Marketing:
The Corner Shop Scotland
BSL:
Paul Belmonte & Rachel Amey
View Our Programme
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Download our programme pdf here
Supporters
The production was kindly supported by the following…
Past Productions
The productions are listed in chronological order with the most recent first.
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