Theater’s new frontiers

Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 09:30 in Mathematics & Economics

John Tiffany has ripped a page from the Diane Paulus playbook. Much like the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) artistic director, the Englishman is expanding the boundaries of theater, even taking his productions into the streets and onto the facades of buildings. Tiffany is the associate director of the National Theatre of Scotland, a nomadic production company with no official home base. Instead, it travels the country visiting remote locations and creating theater productions wherever it can: in a museum, on a ferry, even in a forest. The company’s motto is “theatre without walls.” In 2006, Tiffany helped to direct “Home,” a production that took place in 10 locations across Scotland simultaneously. In his particular production, people with video cameras rappelled off an apartment tower in Glasgow and shot a series of scenes with his actors that were unfolding in different apartments. The footage was then displayed on a giant video screen to...

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