1. Site-Specific Performance
Bath Spa University
Friday 3rd December
Lucy and Barney Heywood
Co-Founders, Stand + Stare Collective

2. Stand + Stare Collective
New stories : immersive experiences
Stand + Stare produce theatre in non-traditional spaces and
place key importance on the role of audiences. We aim to create
theatrical experiences in which people feel immersed and part of
the performance without being made to feel intimidated.

3. What we do
• Large scale shows. • Smaller experiences.
- Extravagant in terms of time, - Often interactive.
people and resources.
- Sometimes with no live
- Site-specific. performers.
- 2/3 weeks intense devising - Either for commercial clients
and production period. or to tour.

4. Stand & Stare 09
• First show.
• February 2009.
• Directed by Rob Tannion and
Greg Banks.
• Over 60 local and
international performers,
artists, designers, and
technicians.

5. Stand & Stare 09 promo vid
http://www.vimeo.com/16672187

6. Premise
• The building represented
Rosemary's life, containing
all her memories.
• The audience experienced them
in a non-linear way, until
the final scene.
• Rosemary was a female Elvis
impersonator. Therefore Elvis
acted as the continuity
throughout her life, as well
as providing a soundtrack.

7. Composed Music
• Thomas Johnson.
• Choral arrangement to the
words of Leisure by WH Davis.
• Other songs composed
performance.
for the
- Christina.
Performed by Naomi Said.
- Yes.
Performed by The Lazy Susan’s.

8. Action Over Discuss
• Met on a local common in our
cars.
• Used what we had to experiment
with ideas. Some things
worked, others didn’t.
• Easier to develop an idea that
is already a reality.

9. The Car Show
• Four shows all performed in
cars.
• Each between 5 and 10 mins
long.
• Audience are greeted by our
sales team who book them into
one of the performances.
• Various technologies and
performance techniques used.

10. The Car Show 09 promo vid
http://www.vimeo.com/16560210

11. The Shows
• Nobody Smiles In Frisco • Robomance
- Film Noir, drive-in movie, mini - Two wind-up robots fall in
projector, McGuffin. love, operated by puppeteers.
• The Flight of The Princess • The Secret Car Club
- Binaural audio recording, no - Short wave radio signal picked
live performers, headphones and up by car radio, miniature
blind fold, found and people inside car instruct
manipulated audio recording of audience to do things.
Princess Diana.

12. SS ARCADIA
• Second large scale show.
• May 2010. Part of Mayfest
(Bristol’s festival of
contemporary theatre)
• Directed by Rob Tannion.
• Over 60 local and
international performers,
artists, designers, and
technicians.

13. SS Arcadia promo vid
http://www.vimeo.com/16559975

14. Premise
• Audience entered as passengers • Lower decks contained the
on an ocean liner. galley, chapel, engine room,
and hold.
• They were free to explore with
gentle guidance. • The central story line focused
on the captains demise and the
• Upper decks contained a casino, guilt he felt for his neglected
son. This was manifested in a
cabins, hairdressers, boutique
(where audience could dress series of stowaway’s.
up), cocktail bar, beach, lift,
and dinning room. “That constant niggle”

15. Floor Plans

16. Time sheet
• Table shows what is happening
in every room, minute by
minute.
• All performers and technicians
start there stop watches on
the bell.

17. The Children of Modernity
• Set in the early 1970’s on a • Accommodates up to 8 audience
commune. members at a time.
• Rossie, our protagonist, has • Lasts between 25 and 30 mins.
gone missing. Through a series
of interactions and
explorations, we invite our
• No live performers.
audiences to find out what has
happened to her.
• Uses audio, video projection,
and interaction with objects.
• Takes place in a bell tent
• Chapter 1 of a larger story we
erected indoors. are developing.

19. Project Europa (Forthcoming)
• Distributed story delivered • The story is centered on Dan
across multiple locations and Alder, whose fiancée has been
media. brainwashed by a modernist
cult named Project Europa. He
• Audience enter a world and must unpick the past in order
to save their future... and
become part of a story that
unfolds over a month. ours.
• Continuation of The Children
of Modernity.

20. References and Inspiration
• Nonchalance - • 1929 -
The Jejune Institute Hall
Elsewhere Public Works Agency Threshold
• Punchdrunk- • Shunt -
The Night Chauffeur Money
The Duchess of Malfi The Lounge
Mask of the Red Death
• Rob Tannion -
DV8
Complicite
Stan Won’t Dance

21. The Jejune Institute
http://jejuneinstitute.org/

22. The Night Chauffeur
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cZtBLqf6V8

23. Crece - Ignacio crosses the moon
http://www.youtube.com/user/RobTannion#p/u/6/oEdR1asMsRE

24. Any Questions?
barney@standandstare.com
lucy@standandstare.com
www.standandstare.com