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From 1st October 2014 – part of Creative Mackintosh Festival 2014 – www.glasgowmackintosh.com
Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Scotland Street School Museum
Alma Mater is Fish & Game’s site-specific performance-for-camera tour created for Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Scotland Street School. With an original musical score from John De Simone, cinematography from Anna Chaney and in collaboration with a range of Glasgow-based artists, Alma Mater engages with themes of childhood and the coercive, civilising power of education.
Individual audience members use portable video screens to explore the school and encounter traces of performances past. In its pioneering form, the work makes the encounter with Mackintosh’s architecture come to life, vividly evoking the unseen human dimension of the building.
Short Trailer
Extended Trailer
Alma Mater @ Scotland Street School from Fish & Game on Vimeo.
Press
‘The intricacies of the camerawork, the nuances of behaviour, all connect superbly to the building and its previous life – would that Alma Mater could be a more permanent part of what the museum offers.‘ Mary Brennan, The Herald
‘One of the first Scottish-made shows not only to use an audio soundtrack but also a hand-held video presentation running on an iPad, to guide audiences through a promenade experience. It emerges as a strange, haunting event.’ Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman For more press responses click here.
Alma Mater was commissioned by and shown as part of the IETM International Performance Conference – www.ietm-glasgow.eu
Introducing Alma Mater at Scotland Street School
Scotland Street Alma Mater experienced by its stars from Fish & Game on Vimeo.
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The Company
Created by Fish & Game
Directed by Robert Walton
Produced by Eilidh MacAskill
Cinematography by Anna Chaney
Music by John De Simone
Performed by Lucy Gaizely, Albie Gaizely-Gardiner, Lyla Gaizely-Gardiner, Raedie Gaizely-Gardiner, Gary Gardiner, Becki Gerrard, Malcolm MacAskill, Susan MacAskill, Fiona Manson, Sam Phillips, Thom Scullion, Jodie Wilkinson, Kevin Wratten
Key Grip by Shona Mackay
Music Performed by Ensemble Thing
Helena Flint, Viola, Ross McCrae, Trombone, Voice, Ed Lucas, Double Bass, Paula Fischer, Piano, Jay Capperauld, Tenor Saxophone, Shona MacKay, Voice, George Kastanos, Alto Saxophone, Richard Merchant, Trumpet
Conducted by Oliver Searle
Thanks to John Bulloch, Jennifer Dowds and all the staff at Scotland Street School Museum, RSAMD’s Digital Film and TV dept, Nick Millar and all at IETM-Glasgow, all the company for generously giving their time and energy to the project.
IETM Glasgow
This piece was created as part of the IETM Glasgow artistic programme on 4-7 November 2010. This 4 day, city-wide performance showcase incorporated contemporary theatre, dance and live art, by many of Scotland’s foremost companies and directors, in a range of venues across Glasgow.
IETM (International Network of Contemporary Performing Arts) is Europe’s most significant membership organisation of its kind and 2010 marked the 20th anniversary of Glasgow’s year as City of Culture. The event saw up to 600 international delegates visit Glasgow and under the theme of ‘Voices’, the plenary will consisted of an extensive programme of talks and performances over 4 days and embraced the entire city, its people and its culture.
First Season: 4-6 November 2010, Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Scotland Street School
Alma Mater was fabulous!