Archipelago
Camden People's Theatre
Archipelago is a game-drama project about division and unity in an increasingly connected world.
Commissioned by Camden People's Theatre for their 20:20 Vision Festival, celebrating the theatre's 20th birthday, exploring how the world has changed in the last 20 years and considering how it may continue to change in the next two decades.
Designer & Director: Jamie Harper
Visual Design: Bern Roche Farrelly
Actors Archipelago: Sally-Anne Badger, Jack Blackburn, Eleonora Cuciarelli, Meredith Bartmon, Rosie Abraham, Harriet Layhe, Laurie Harrington, Rob Taylor-Hastings, Amelie Edwards, Hayley Adams & Barry McStay.
Designer & Director: Jamie Harper
Visual Design: Bern Roche Farrelly
Actors Archipelago: Sally-Anne Badger, Jack Blackburn, Eleonora Cuciarelli, Meredith Bartmon, Rosie Abraham, Harriet Layhe, Laurie Harrington, Rob Taylor-Hastings, Amelie Edwards, Hayley Adams & Barry McStay.
Press:
"Archipelago is an interactive piece from Hobo Theatre in which the audience are divided among three imagined islands and asked to live out 40 years managing their country’s resources and political relations. The work is elevated from the level of the inter-office team-building exercise thanks to some clever mechanics and performances from the company. Improvising as the bickering representatives of the nations bookending the archipelago, and as the news anchor summarising each phase of play (for which Rob Taylor-Hastings deserves a special mention), Hobo deliver fun and satire in equal measure. While designer/director Jamie Harper describes the piece not as theatre per se, rather more as a “game with dramatic elements”, Archipelago is a perfect way to close an evening of celebration of a theatre at which the sense of adventure, and of a welcoming community spirit, is palpable."
- The Upcoming
"Archipelago is an interactive piece from Hobo Theatre in which the audience are divided among three imagined islands and asked to live out 40 years managing their country’s resources and political relations. The work is elevated from the level of the inter-office team-building exercise thanks to some clever mechanics and performances from the company. Improvising as the bickering representatives of the nations bookending the archipelago, and as the news anchor summarising each phase of play (for which Rob Taylor-Hastings deserves a special mention), Hobo deliver fun and satire in equal measure. While designer/director Jamie Harper describes the piece not as theatre per se, rather more as a “game with dramatic elements”, Archipelago is a perfect way to close an evening of celebration of a theatre at which the sense of adventure, and of a welcoming community spirit, is palpable."
- The Upcoming
