Selected Reviews

 

Natural Disasters

London

Artscribe, No. 28, 1980, John Roberts, 'Madness at Home: Recent Performance'

 

London

Performance Magazine No. 15, 1981, Leslie Dick MAKIND THE WORLD VERTICAL

 

Amsterdam

Der Volkskrant, 23rd January 1982, Renske Heddema, 'Natural Disasters waar spektalel'

 

Sex & Death

London

Performance Magazine, No. 12 (1981), John Roberts, 'Station House Opera - Air Gallery', pp 25 - 26

 

Artscribe, No 53 (1985), Anthony Howell, 'Operas and Ensembles', pp 47 - 48

 

The Stage and Television Today, 13th December 1984, Charles Spencer, 'Bloomsbury - Station House Opera'

 

Drunken Madness

London

Performance Magazine, No 15 (1981), Leslie Dick, 'Making the World Vertical', pp 11, 27

 

Ultramundane

London

Time Out, 10th - 16th November 1983, Sarah Kent

 

The Guardian, 10th November 1983, Nicholas de Jongh, 'Ultramondane'

 

A Split Second of Paradise

London

City Limits, 6th December 1985, Lyn Gardner

 

The Guardian, 16th June 1986, Kenneth Rea, 'Split Second of Paradise'

 

Amsterdam

NRC Handelsblad, 5th July 1986, Jac Heijer, 'Station House Opera bouwt metamorfosen uit honderden stenen'

 

De Volkskrant, 11 July 1986, 'Drankorgels in de hijskraan'

 

Cuckoo

London

Time Out, 24th June 1987, Helen Rose, 'Cuckoo'

 

The Guardian, 27th June 1987, Kenneth Rea, 'Cuckoo'

 

Zurich

Der Landbote, 1st September 1988, Irène Bourquin, 'Eine elegant-absurde Möbelschlacht'

 

Badener Tagblatt, 1st September 1988, Hans-Peter Steiner, 'Zuercher Theater Spektakel'

 

Grenzpost am Zuerichsee, 1st September 1988, Sabine Weder-Arlitt, 'Das Möbel schlägt die Seele tot'

 

Amsterdam

NRC Handelsblad, 7th December 1988, Hein Janssen, 'Mickery zoekt de lichtheid op met actuers in "meubelstuk" '

 

Hamburg

Taz Hamburg, 3rd August 1990, Julia Kossmann, 'Wenn das Objekt den menschen regiert'

 

Landeszeitung für die Lüneburger Heide, 3rd August 1990, Ulrike Cordes, 'Skurriler Kampf mit dem Mobiliar'

 

Piranesi in New York

New York

New York Times, 16th June 1988, Jennifer Dunning, 'Playing with Space Under a Bridge'
 

Boston
The Boston Phoenix, July 22nd 1988, Max Alexander, 'Piranesi in Brooklyn'

 

Melbourne

The Sunday Age, 23rd September 1990, Jeremy Eccles, 'Poetry and the prefab performance'

 

The Bastille Dances

London

The Guardian, 20th July 1989, Michael Billington, 'Breeze of Change'

 

The Independent, 21st July 1989, Georgina Brown, 'Blockbusting'

 

Building Design, 4th August 1989, Clare Melhuish, 'Creative blocks at South Bank'

 

Black Works

Amsterdam

Volkskrandt, 17 May 1991, 'Pamflet van een originele en dwarse regisseur'

 

London

The Independent, June 1991, James Hall, 'Black Works'

 

The Times, June 1991, Harry Eyres, 'Black Works'

 

The Guardian, June 1991, Sacha Craddock, 'Black Works'

 

Time Out, June 1991, Sarah Kent, 'Black Works'

 

Zurich

Tages-Anzeiger, 14th June 1991, Erika Wittwer, 'Im Mehlstaub Spuren suchen'

 

The Oracle (Because We're Here)

Glasgow

The Herald, 1st May 1993, Mary Brennan, 'The Oracle (Because We're Here)'

 

The List, 23rd April - 6th May 1993, Stephen Chester, 'Loose Tubes'

 

Limelight

London

The Stage, 24th July 1996, Emma Manning, 'Limelight'

 

The Salisbury Proverbs

Salisbury

The Blackmore Vale Press, June 1997, Fanny Charles, 'Review'

 

Snakes and Ladders

London

Ham & High, 5th June 1998, Keith Watson, 'Snakes and Ladders'

 

Time Out, 27th May - June 3rd 1998, Kate Stratton, 'Step On'

 

Financial Times, 2 June 1998, Ian Shuttleworth, 'Wordless actions baffle in Bow'

 

Roadmetal, Sweetbread

London 1998

Time Out, November 1998, Kate Stratton, 'Roadmetal, Sweetbread'

 

Frieze, No. 45, 1998, David Batchelor, 'Station House Opera'

 

The Guardian, November 1998, Lyn Gardner, 'They do it with cameras'

 

Glasgow

The Scotsman, April 1999, Joyce McMillan, 'Roadmetal, Sweetbread' >

 

The Herald, April 1999, Mary Brennan, 'Performance: Roadmetal, Sweetbread'

 

St-Brieuc

Ouest-France, 19th May 1999, Michel Tanneau, 'Art Rock cultive l'humour british'

 

London 1999

Total Theatre, November 1999, Paul Williams, 'Station House Opera'

 

Munich

SüddeutscheZeitung, 19th November 1999, Isa Hoffinger, 'Ohne Worte'

 

Abendzeitung, 19th November 1999, Gabriella Lorenz, 'Klein, fein und gemein'

 

Münchner Merkur, 19th November 1999, Christopher Schmidt, 'Doppelter Strindberger'

 

London 2000

Time Out, 5th - 12th April 2000, Sarah Kent, 'Roadmetal, Sweetbread'

 

Geneva

Le Temps, 4th September 2000, Ghania Adamo, ' "Roadmetal" purge l'inconscient'

 

Tribune de Geneve, 5th Septemebr 2000, Thierry Mertenat, 'Grâce à la vidéo, le théâtre gagne en vérité'

 

Mare’s Nest

Geneva

Le Temps, 3 September 2001, Alexandre Demidoff, ' Les acteurs de Station House Opera'

 

Tribune De Geneve, 3rd September 2001, Thierry Mertenat, 'Station House Opera'

 

London

Reviews Gate, 7th December 2001, Timothy Ramsden, 'Fantasy and reality'

 

Timeout, 12th ­ 19th December 2001, Kate Stratton, 'Mare's Nest'

 

Timeout, 12th ­ 19th December 2001, Sarah Kent, ' Station House Opera'

 

The Guardian, 12th December 2001, Lyn Gardner, 'Mare's Nest

 

What's On, 12th December 2001, Cheryl Freedman, ' Mare's Nest'

 

The Stage, 29th December 2001, Gareth Evans, 'Mare's Nest'

 

Glasgow

The Herald, 11th March 2002, Mary Brennan, ' Mare's Nest'

 

TheScotsman, 13th March 2002, Mark Brown, 'Movers with a Message'

 

Live Art Magazine, Jan-March 2002 Issue 38, Jeremy Peyton Jones 'Mare's Nest"

 

 

Selected Bibliography

Nick Kaye 'Site Specific Art' Routledge, 2000.

 

Anthony Howell, The Analysis of Performance Art: A Guide to its Theory and Practice, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999

 

Alaric Sumner, 'Interview with Julian Maynard Smith' in Performance Art Journal, no. 61, 1999

 

Julian Maynard Smith, Station House Opera: The Breeze Block Performances , edited by Nick Kaye, 1998

 

Andrew Quick. 'Time and the Event ' in Cultural Values (Vol. 2 Nos. 2 & 3 1998), edited by Scott Lash, Andrew Quick and Richard Roberts, Blackwells, Oxford 1998, ISSN No: 1362-5179

 

Sarah Kent 'An Act in Several Parts: The Work of Station House Opera' in A Split Second of Paradise: Live Art Installation and Performance, edited by Jeni Walwin and Nicky Childs, Rivers Oram Press and Artsadmin, 1997, ISBN 1 85489 099 (pbk) 1 85489 098 0 (hbk)

 

Julian Maynard Smith, 'Untitled' [Sheet of drawings and 16 miniature bricks]

Shattered Anatomies: Traces of the Body in Performance (limited edition boxed publication), edited by Adrian Heathfield, Fiona Templeton and Andrew Quick, Arnolfini Live, 1997, ISBN 0 90 7738 54 0

 

Nick Kaye, ed., Art into Theatre, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996

 

Gary Stevens, 'Catalogue Essay', Limelight and Other Works , Kettles Yard,

Cambridge,1995

 

Julian Maynard Smith, 'The Bastille Dances: Station House Opera', Scroope (Cambridge Architecture Journal), Issue 6, 1994/5

 

Julian Maynard Smith, 'Station House Opera: The Oracle' in British Live Art:

Essays and Documentations, section edited by Nick Kaye inContemporary

Theatre Review , Vol. 2, Part 2, 1994, Harwood Academic Publishers GmbH,

pages 61 - 72, ISBN 3-7186-5599-3

 

Nicola Oxley, Nicolas de Oliviera and Michael Petry eds., Installation Art, Thames & Hudson, London 1994

 

Frank den Oudsten, ed., Concept Form Exposition, Camini Stichting, 1989

 

John Goodwin, ed., British Theatre Design: The Modern Age, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London 1989

 

Steve Rogers, 'Showing The Wires: An Interview with Julian Maynard Smith' in Performance Magazine, No. 56 / 57, Dec / Jan / Feb 1989

 

Minna Thornton, 'Psychological Architecture' in Artscribe International, No. 71, September / October 1988, pp 62 - 65

 

Anthony Howell, 'Operas and Ensembles' in Artscribe International, No. 53, August 1985, pp 47 - 48

 

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