https://www.wilswilson.com/work daily 1.0 2025-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758353968-HS1KRVJT12UXV9JFGSNE/IMG_4806.jpg theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758360817-XFNPDRINVG1ZFZWURK24/B032_134-720x1080.jpg theatre Photographer: Peter Dibdin - peterdibdin.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758362778-GP14WL6P3C3VTHW33XAI/IMG_8057.jpg theatre - Ignition - National Theatre of Scotland Ignition explored the unique relationship that Shetland and Shetlanders have with the car through theatre performance, installation, parkour, music, dance, knitting, conversation, film and the great Shetland institution of the Sunday Tea.   Culminating in a large-scale mobile theatre performance created and performed in and on cars, buses, caravans and vehicles large and small, both moving and stationary, Ignition took audiences of drivers and passengers to sites across Shetland and asked the question 'what is the car doing to us?'.   Meeting at a village hall, audiences experienced an interactive installation which brought together film, music, sound and verbatim interviews. After an introduction from a modern day White Wife (a ghostly figure of a woman who is said to appear in the passenger seat beside lone drivers at night on remote Shetland roads) giving 'advice' for driving through the islands, and registering their own journeys into a log book, audiences were divided into carloads and led out into the night and into their cars. Their journey was animated by performances, music and sound, as each car was flagged down by a hitcher in need of help, each with their own story to tell. The night's journey took audiences to three sites: a car park, where small groups experienced intimate performances inside a car, a caravan or a bus; a performance where the car radio provided a soundtrack of music and poetic fragments, and the audience watched a highly physical performance through their windscreen as part of a car corral; and a final coming together in the warmth of a village hall, where communal singing, tea and fancies brought the evening to a close. The journeys and stories of the audience themselves formed the content of a final song, 'All the journeys we've made...' before the audience drove home through the night.   Director: Wils Wilson Writer: Robert Evans Composer: Hugh Nankivell Movement Director: Janice Parker Designer: Becky Minto Parkour Director: Chris Grant   Over the 18 months before the final performance, material was gathered and relationships were forged across Shetland with individuals and groups, many of whom went on to be part of the final performance. Each project had its own integrity and was also part of the whole, shaping and being shaped by the other activity and the final event. These included: Da Road - a CD and live music performance created by Hugh Nankivell and the people he met and made music with as he travelled Da Road, the long road which goes from north to south of the islands. The White Wife - a live theatre intervention. Performance artist Lowri Evans hitched across Shetland as the White Wife of Shetland folklore, recording interviews with drivers as she went. Residency - A dance residency at Wastview Care Home led by dancer and choreographer Janice Parker. Shetland Parkour - the vibrant Shetland parkour group created their own theatre performance with parkour and movement director Chris Grant, as well as performing in the final Ignition performance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758367993-KQ86RRXM4HSBRVO5PFNK/mul01+094.jpg theatre - wilson+wilson, 1997-2007 For more information about wilson+wilson, please visit www.wilsonandwilson.org.uk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758377621-NC6QPQ8O9ZF1UTKEXRIF/Anon+Prod_%C2%A9BTARR2014_021.JPG theatre - ANON - Welsh National Opera ANON was a new opera by Errollyn Wallen for four sopranos, two actors, keyboards, cello and percussion. A contemporary response to the Manon story which has inspired so many previous operatic works, it gave voice to a number of stories of sexually exploited young women, focussing on the central story of Girl 1. Developed through a number of workshops with schoolgirls, students and sex workers in Birmingham, the opera was beautiful and tender, whilst never shying away from the brutalising reality of some of the women's lives.   Director - Wils WIlson Composer & librettist - Errollyn Wallen Designer - Amanda Stoodley Lighting Design - Anna Barrett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758378571-O97SBNS6BNGJRJRD9LA2/Shetland_home027.jpg theatre - HOME Shetland - National Theatre of Scotland   Winner - Best Use of Music, Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2005   Director - Wils Wilson Writers - Jackie Kay & Jacqui Clark Composer - Hugh Nankivell Designer / Visual Artist - Karen Chubb   HOME Shetland took audiences on a journey around the Lerwick-Aberdeen ferry Hjatland, in dock in Lerwick Harbour before its nighttime voyage to the mainland.   After being greeted by the purser or gatekeeper, a figure of both the everyday and mythical world, the audience, wearing headphones, were guided through the upper deck, where stories and songs interwove exploring home - what it means to have one, to lose one, to return and to escape.   Gradually a central story emerged, as audience experienced a one-on-one performance in a cabin, and then gave up their headphones and proceeded down to the car deck, where a sound installation and performance filled the epic space. The final lullaby was played over the car stereo as you drove off the ferry and back to dry land.   HOME Shetland was part of the National Theatre of Scotland's launch project, HOME, which created 10 site-specific events on the theme of home which were performed simultaneously across Scotland in February 2005.       https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758380457-FKJZZ49EPSN7NGFT8715/IMG_2840.jpg theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758352376-3M4SFOKBRAPTR23A6ELS/9.+Sophia+Kolinas.+Photo+credit+Mihaela+Bodlovic.JPG theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758381441-QC813QMT9B16VJ7RL2D9/%C2%A9RWD15_I%2BWant%2BMy%2BHat%2BBack_120.jpg theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758358808-I20U1SXBLFSUSOQYFZNI/image.png theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758375793-5ZR6DBAQL6DG8VIPNTNG/PRAXIS_05+copy.jpg theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758364682-15CRZ36LWGMH47IL27A4/Red+Ellen+at+Northern+Stage+l-r+Mercedes+Assad+Kevin+Lennon+Bettrys+Jones+Eilidh+Talman+Helen+Katamba+%2B+Sandy+Batchelor.jpg theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758359867-H7GIHVEJAVHVRHW5B6US/projection+on+K.jpg theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1738519623802-PVPNEK9EI4DWXKEWCS3W/LifeIsADream_RyanBuchanan_085.jpg theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758354921-PAW86FH1I8UMYE4BNG1Y/RCTgastro2013JP-01457-Edit.jpg theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758372062-PTDX6NLIDTW1U5RH27QI/7.+%28L-R%29+David+Hunter+and+Cecile+Menard+in+The+Hour+We+Knew+Nothing+of+Each+Other.+Photo+credit+Aly+Wight.jpg theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758361820-SPUB697SBYRUTPETMXO0/_MG_1084.jpg theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758365699-KRFR81BEFVHQB1BKKQR2/103-Candylion-Farrows-Creative.JPG theatre https://www.wilswilson.com/music-videos daily 0.75 2025-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758376875-99L56HFMDVN862W61851/image-asset.jpeg more - THE PORTAL - a new podcast for unusual times & KELI THE PORTAL Lose yourself in a story of obsession, 40 years of nightlife and 4,000 years of human connection. In The Portal Martin Green and Wils Wilson have woven together a tale of love, music, drugs and deceit over 12 episodes available here, on Apple Music/Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and all good podcast platforms. A story where two obsessive sound-recordists, and lovers torn apart by circumstance; Etteridge and Angela left us the most incredible collection of 20th century documentation ever made. From 1947 to 1988 they never met. They recorded any and every aspect of London nightlife, from war-time dance-halls to the legendary M25 raves. But these recordings never saw the light of day until they were discovered in 2016. Why did they keep these tapes secret? Because for 40 years these parted lovers had been leaving messages for each other in these recordings, a dark, dark story left for us to piece together. "The Portal began as a little day dream that spiralled out of control and out into the real world. The opportunity to be making a piece of work of this size, with these remarkable collaborators is beyond exciting. Audio has always been the world where I feel most at home, and I love stories. As a story-telling form, podcast is a perfect medium for me. It is a perfect halfway house between reading a book, where you get to decide what characters look like for yourself, and film, where you are able to present so much detail." Martin Green Credits Martin Green: Writer and Composer Wils Wilson: Director Sound Design by Martin Green with thanks to Eloise Whitmore. Mixed by Calum Malcolm and Cameron Malcolm Cast: MG: Martin Green, Dylan Read, Alison Peebles, Anna Russell Martin, Adam McNamara, Owen Whitelaw, Amanda Wilkin, Jessica Hardick, Nadia Albina, Tam Dean Burn Musicians: Martin Green, Yasaman Najmeddin, Radie Peat, James Holden, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Kate Young, Adrian Utley Polly Thomas: Executive Producer & Script Editor Louis Blatherwick: Sound Recordist Photography: Mihaela Bodlovic Martin Atkinson: Lepus Senior Producer Casting: Anna Dawson Created by Lepus Productions, in collaboration with Naked Productions. Co-commissioned by Edinburgh International Festival, Southbank Centre, Bristol Music Trust, Oxford Contemporary Music, National Theatre of Scotland, Shetland Arts, The North Wall, MacArts Galashiels and funded by Creative Scotland. KELI Conceived, composed and written by Martin Green Co-created and directed by Wils Wilson Weaving together a contemporary story, a classic socialist fable, documentary and music, this experimental audio drama tells the story of a talented but troubled young horn player (Anna Russell-Martin), whose Monster-juice-fuelled journey takes her to an abandoned cooling tower, onto the stage of the Albert Hall, into a fetish club in London, and down a derelict mine shaft where she meets a 150 year old miner and Labour activist, Willie Knox. Through-composed with an intricate and powerful brass band score by Martin Green, it features BBC Young Musician of the Year, Sheona White on tenor horn and the award-winning Whitburn Brass Band. Available on request CAST Willie - James Cosmo MG - Martin Green Storyteller - Edie Green Klara - Sandra Kassman Bus Driver - Jamie Kenna Lady Snaresgrove - Liz Kettle Amy - Laura Lovemore Brian - Billy Mack Policeman/Compere - Ross Mann Jayne - Carmen Pieraccini Keli - Anna Russell Martin Saskia - Gemma Stroyan Louis Blatherwick: Sound Recordist Casting: Anna Dawson Commissioned by The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and Shetland Arts Executive Producer for Lepus Productions: Martin Atkinson Created by Lepus Productions KELI contains elements of The Servant by Hermynia Zur Mühlen and translated by Jack Zipes. https://www.wilswilson.com/about daily 0.75 2025-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6794168fff69b140a83e6969/1737758363869-WL2FLQ2XNJYXLCFBQ5VM/Image.jpg about photo: Simon Murphy https://www.wilswilson.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-01-24