Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland: Best Production of 2006, Best Technical Presentation, Best Ensemble
A co-production between GRID IRON and the NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND.
An imaginative journey through, in and around the possibilities of air travel.
Written and directed by Ben Harrison
Devised with the Company
4th – 22nd April 2006
BAA Edinburgh International Airport (audience departure point, Traverse Theatre)
AWARDS
“Few seconds in life are more releasing than those in which a plane ascends to the sky… accompanied by the controlled rage of the engines we rise fluently into the atmosphere and an immense horizon opens up across which we can wander without impediment. A journey which on earth would have taken us an afternoon can be accomplished with an infinitesimal movement of the eye…”
Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
Are modern air passengers the contemporary equivalent of angels, bearing messages across the globe, or nomadic wanderers for whom home is no longer bound by national boundaries?
Inspired by a diversity of texts from Michel Serres, Pico Iyer, Alain de Botton and many others, as well as testimonies from refugees and airport workers, Roam combined a multinational company of ten performers together with a large group of non-professional participants aged five to eighty-five.
Roam begins as the last flight leaves, that liminal time when airports become something other, a twilight world of memories, travellers’ detritus, ghosts and echoes of tearful and joyous conversations. Roam reflects on national identity, the gross inequalities in our world, and the politics of terror and also on flight itself as a symbol of human achievement.
“This partnership shows how the arts can transform the physical working environment and in so doing alter the experiences and motivation of a workforce.”
Barclay Price
Regional Director, Arts and Business Scotland
Cast
Sarah Belcher
Claire Cochrane
Andrew Clark
Gergo Danka
Saseen Kawzally
John Kazek
Lisette Merenciana
Itxaso Moreno
Musicians:
Galo Ceron-Carrasco & Kerieva McCormick
COMMUNITY CAST
Dennis Chakonda
Clive Desmond
Lucy Gogoliuk
Lorna Gow
June Gray
Willie Green
Louise Green
Jane Heron
Ciara McCaw
Ailis McGuinness
Caitlin McGuinness
Jane Mitchell
Aurora Palko
Sebastian Palko
Xander Palko
Eloy Pena
Arnold Smit
Zozek Tayeb
Saula Vasakula
Dorothy Wilson
Production Team
CHAPERONES
Caroline Aston
Helen Corbett
Ben Godfrey
Barbara Gray
Phillipa Tomlin
Jo Timmins
Justine Wortsman
CREATIVE TEAM
Written & directed by:
Ben Harrison
Devised by:
The Company
Assistant Director:
Jemima Levick
Producer:
Judith Doherty
Composer/Sound Designer:
Philip Pinsky
Set Designer:
Clifton Dolliver
Assistant Set Designer:
Davy Dummigan
Costume Designer:
Joan Hickson
Assistant Costume Designer/Dresser:
Ailsa Rendell
Costume Assistants:
Kathryn Smith & Sophie Ferguson
Lighting Designer:
Paul Claydon
Choreographer:
Fleur Darkin
Dramaturg:
Zinnie Harris
Production Manager:
Fiona Fraser
Technical Manager:
Paul Claydon
Stage Manager:
Michael Graham
DSM:
Laura Edwards & Natasha Lee-Walsh
ASM:
Catherine Ireton
Props Maker:
Claire Halleran
Sound Engineer:
Claire Bromhead
Production Electrician:
Mark Sodergren
Technicians:
Phil O’ Halloran & Susie Peters
Dresser:
Rachel Godding
Set built by:
Scimitar Scenery
AV Consultants:
Fifty Nine Ltd
General Manager:
Deborah Crewe
Office Manager:
Fiona Dougal
Print design:
Emma Quinn
Print production:
Big Byte
Office Dogs:
Hector & Tigger
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