Open Space Theatre

The March research period made one thing clear: the tube can howl louder than an actor can, and is better at circular breathing. This has huge implications for what Howl is for. Does it matter if only the people right next to you can hear? Is the shift in atmosphere in the carriage enough? What about all those carefully edited references to London, the Education Maintenance Allowance, to the financial crisis…. all for nothing?

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Howl research 2.3

March: two actors on the Piccadilly line. They’d had one rehearsal. You’re watching Tash Campbell and a man reading the metro.

Howl is a project to articulate a reaction to the cumulative impact of Britain’s austerity measures on the people least responsible for the financial crisis.

Howl research 2.2

March: two actors on the Piccadilly line. They’d had one rehearsal. You’re watching Tash Campbell and Tom Greaves. Keep an eye on the woman in the middle.

Howl is a project to articulate a reaction to the cumulative impact of Britain’s austerity measures on the people least responsible for the financial crisis.

Howl research 2.1

March: two actors on the Piccadilly line. They’d had one rehearsal. This was the first run, you’re watching Tom Greaves and members of the public.

Howl is a project to articulate a reaction to the cumulative impact of Britain’s austerity measures on the people least responsible for the financial crisis.

The Challenges Of Site Specific Performance In Mumbai

Rashna D. Nicholson

Howl research 1

Back in March three actors and two directors got together to work out the first steps of Howl (our Howl). Time constraints meant only one actor set off to see how it felt in the tube carriage… thanks go to the people who accompanied her.

Some well expressed reasons to be riled for you:

http://ithinkiwanttobegood.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/get-fired-up-1-libya-bae-and-the-cuts/

San Francisco, 1955, the Six Gallery: Allan Ginsberg performs Howl for the first time which ‘left us standing in wonder, or cheering and wondering, but knowing at the deepest level that a barrier had been broken, that a human voice and body had been hurled against the harsh wall of America…’ (Michael McClure).

London, 2011, a tube carriage between Highbury & Islington and Kings Cross: our Howl.

Open Space have teamed up with The Change Collective to bring concerned performers together, articulating in an appropriation of Allan Ginsberg’s words a Howl at the inequity of where these cuts are felt most deeply - now, and in the years to come.

All those minds, each one of them the best of our generation, destroyed by madness.

The Dharavi Game - Momo coming out of her basket on the Sion Bridge, and seeing Dharavi for the first time…

The Dharavi Game - Show day : Thanks to everybody

There have been too many to name over the whole project, but a special mention goes to everyone who turned up on the day to help us set up and run the show. Thank you!