PunchDrunk info/quotes

Sensory Theatrical World

Engaging the audience’s senses - sight, sound, smell, touch

Total Sound Score / Full Aural Composition

Music, narration, placement of speakers, directionality, space and ambience

Holistic atmospheres / Mise en Scene

Forensic, covers all areas - e.g. smell and temperature

Total Space

Even utilitarian aspects of space are considered - immersion upon entry

Touch Real sets

high level of detail in all set design aspects

Radical Promenade

audience turned into active participants

Site Sympathetic

work is created for the site where it is to be performed

One to Ones

random audience member pulled aside and mask is taken off

Venetian Bauta Carnival masks

traditional masks placed on audience members

Looping Narrative

Each actor follows a loop- multiple storylines happening simultaneously

a parallel universe

‘We’re trying to build…

visceral, physical, emotional

Our theatre is…

nomadic

PunchDrunk is…

avoid stagnation

The idea is to…

proximity

Intimacy comes with…

support the audience’s journey through dark spaces

Light is used to…

‘Sleep No More’ 2003, ‘The Drowned Man’ 2013

2 Key mask shows (large scale productions where the aduience experience a world constructed within a vast building)

Felix Barret’s original production of Woyzeck in Exeter 2000

Masked productions first piloted when?