MANIFESTO
NO SUCH THEATRE
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NST are interested in setting unattainable goals. Our work emerges from the attempt to reach them.
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NST strive towards density, complexity and intellectual depth. But this complexity is embedded in intensity, and the visceral. We see no distinction between thought and action, between thinking and feeling.
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NST aim to create work that is adversarial; which is not to say aggressive, cruel or unpleasant. Merely that NST is not interested in staging consensus.
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NST seek irresolvable questions. We are not evangelists for a cause. We do not have the answers.
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NST make work in extremis: at the extremes of life, the uncomfortable space in which fundamental questions hang in the balance, teetering on the edge of chaos.
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NST believe in lightness and play, but we do not consider this synonymous with thinness or comfort. We can play rough if we want to.
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NST believe that no subject should be excluded from our creative frame. If executed with compassion and clarity – and without exploitative effect – performance can (and should) represent or speak to anything.
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NST strive to be democratic, diverse and inclusive. No communicative force should be a sole creative arbiter – not the text, not the actors, not the lights nor the music nor the set nor the director.