How To Behave
Audiences were led around the newly built Hampstead Theatre via an audio tour, before emerging from the scene dock to be confronted by a giant mirror facing them on the stage. From the auditorium, a live video projection is seen on the back of the mirror – this covers exactly the view that the mirror obscures so as people appear and disappear behind the screen they change from tangible to virtual without disruption. Into this live illusion is cut recorded video – of imaginary events behind the screen, or views of action in the backstage theatre spaces that the audience has just walked through, and so mixing the stage present with a choreographed past.atre spaces that the audience has just walked through, and so mixing the stage present with a choreographed past.
with Matthew Bowyer, Katye Coe, Amanda Hadingue, Susannah Hart, Mem Morrison
Directed by Julian Maynard Smith
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Commissioned for the opening of the Hampstead Theatre, 2003
An ArtsAdmin production
