THE FALL OF MAN The 2009 Edinburgh Fringe saw the company's much anticipated return with a new show and a new mode of production. click here for press release and photos click here for reviews The Fall of Man played to full houses throughout most of the 3 1/2 weeks of the Edinburgh Fringe and won praise for the company following its decision to move away from generic touring productions to more site sensitive work tailored to locations, contexts and the preoccupations of its members. This Edinburgh outing has confirmed the company's already established position at the forefront of UK practice and its desire to find collaborators to help make the theatre of the future. "It is not the way that the tale pans out to its eventual and inevitable sordid end that matters, so much as the way the story is told. Working with only a bed, three simple lights and Sarah Llewellyn's insistent soundscape, the production creates an intense intimacy that implicates its audience; you feel slightly soiled watching it. It also boasts two assured and brave performances, from co-director Graeme Rose as Peter and Stephanie Day as the nanny". - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian The Scotsman: * * * * (featured Hot Show) "they have created another provocative piece - on the surface a small story of a briefly lived-out relationship, but more fundamentally, a tribute to the kind of fleeting passions that make life worth living." Three Weeks: * * * * "A bold, impressively performed production that endows a difficult literary work with graphic contemporary resonance." One4review.com: * * * * "In the intimate space, barely lit by small domestic light bulbs, good performances are drawn from both performers in this strong hard hitting performance" Metro: * * * * "Casting the audience as culpable voyeurs by having us cluster round their bed, this is a branding iron of sex and guilt." EdinburghGuide.com: * * * * "This is a superbly inventive and beautifully adapted piece that grips the audience in a vice and refuses to let them escape." The List: * * *, Fringe Review.co.uk: * * *, Broadway Baby: * * *, What's on Stage.com: * * *, British Theatre Guide: * * *, Fest/The Skinny: * * *, Edinburgh Insider: * * *		Welcome to Red Shift Theatre Company "Red Shift's cinematic style is thrilling, refreshingly vigorous and up-to-the-minute" - Time Out Click here to enter Website Red Shift was founded in 1982 by Director Jonathan Holloway (click for biog) and Designer Charlotte Humpston. The company has toured all over the world, played in literally hundreds of UK theatres from modest studios to lyric houses and won numerous awards. Over... 3000 performances given, 250000 tickets sold, 1000 get-ins/get-outs completed, 50000 miles driven, 35000 miles flown. "Red Shift does the shows people want to see" - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Red Shift is now creating it's new project for The Latitude Festival 2010 The Invisible Show a groundbreaking intense drama played out among crowds in squares, restaurants and open spaces Wherever a crowd gathers numerous dramas will be played out within it. An estranged father and son duo meet for the first time in years. A couple plan the detail of their painful separation. Lovers squirm, sexed up and desperate for privacy. A mother diagnosed with serious illness worries into her phone, concerned for her children. Except for the smallest tell-tales - a raised voice, a sudden violent gesture - the crowd is ignorant of these eddies of emotion. Realising these scenarios is the heart of our show, but of course it is virtually invisible… unless you've bought a ticket, been given the headphones, and then suddenly the private soundscape reveals itself and the dramas become visible, and you can move from one to the next simply by flipping channel and changing your point of vantage. While THE FALL OF MAN continues in repertoire, Red Shift will be developing THE INVISIBLE SHOW. We have already opened discussions with prominent producing venues keen to have this 'event' in their foyers, adjacent piazzas and open landscapes in London, Nottingham, Suffolk and Germany. This project is a collaboration between Red Shift Theatre Company and Central School of Speech and Drama's Centre for Excellence in TheatreTraining.
Following its success, The Fall of Man will be touring to Festivals in June 2010 . The show requires an intimate claustrophobic situation, needs only minimal technical support and because of its length can be played twice in an evening. Contact us on 07958 617837 for further details. A collaboration between Jonathan Holloway (founder: Red Shift), Graeme Rose (co-founder: Stan's Cafe) and the Company using original dialogue and excerpts from John Milton's Paradise Lost The Story: Sited in the bed-sitting room of Slovenian child minder Veronica. Visited in the early hours by Peter - father of the children she minds - we watch their adulterous relationship fall apart lit only by a bedside candle. An intense theatrical experience played with the audience huddled around their single bed. Unforgiving in its explicit physicality and emotional depth. Skirmishing across issues of the actor-audience relationship. Like watching surgery without anaesthetic. High tragedy in a tiny domestic environment. Huge words. Throwaway remarks. Candid love-making eclipsed by mistrust. Red Shift welcomed Graeme Rose back to the company for this ambitious risk-taking event: Graeme is a theatre-maker committed to developing innovative, collaborative work. A co-founder of companies Glory what Glory, Stan's Cafe and The Resurrectionists, he is also associate artist with Bodies in Flight, and has worked repeatedly with the likes of Insomniac Prods, Talking Birds and Red Shift. Become a Fan of Red Shift Theatre Company on Facebook. Jonathan Holloway is also on Facebook & twitter (JHollowayLondon)  The Red Shift Back Catalogue  Red Shift has been producing new plays, adaptations and classics for 27 years. Much of this back catalogue is available for companies and producers, professional and amateur. Several scripts are regularly produced in the UK, America and Australia. Please feel free to go to the History section of the website and, if you are interested in discussing new opportunities for any of the work, then please do get in touch. Red Shift History		Red Shift's Jonathan Holloway is a frequent contributor to BBC Radio 3 & 4, the world's most prolific and popular venues for new drama   Wuthering Heights A radical reinterpretation of this great story in which Holloway celebrates Cathy's obssessive all-consuming passion as a prime example of the extremities that make life worth living. For broadcast in 2011    New Play... A new commision exploring the nail-biting build up to the 1942 Oscars during which the FBI tried to acquire and destroy every existing print of Citizen Kane. For broadcast late 2010    ALL PASSION SPENT Adaptation of the 1931 novel by Vita Sackville-West. An aged widow defies her children to embark on an independent life and a peculiar relationship with an admirer from long ago. Starring Honor Blackman. Broadcast in 5 eps, 19 - 23 Jan 2009.   REP Actor George Friendly has just started work in one of Britain's last surviving seaside repertory theatres. His first part is in Clubfoot the Avenger, and he thinks he knows how the rest of the summer is going to go. Cast inc Jay Villiers, Lucy Liemann, Michael Fenton Stevens. Broadcast 17 Aug 2009. THE QUEST reimagining the Grail Quest. With Julian Rhind-Tutt (Green Wing) and Mark Gatiss (League of Gentlemen). "Jonathan Holloway’s Arthurian world is about as far away from the familiar one as was his version of Faust in this same slot not long ago. In other words, he deconstructs, reshuffles, updates and astonishes, and all to make us see the heart of the story more clearly. It works too. Julian Rhind-Tutt, again, plays the lead with Mark Gatiss as Merlin. " - Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph. Broadcast August 2009 The Railway Siding Holloway's moody and moving ghost story set on the overnight train from Fishguard to London, with Sam Dale, Lydia Leonard, Ewan Hooper and Mark Lewis. Broadcast 12/11/2009 Critic's Choice in Time Out, The Observer and The Telegraph    A Night with Johnny Stompanato Hard-boiled Hollywood drama based on the true story of the stabbing of superstar Lana Turner's boyfriend Johnny Stampanato by her daughter Cheryl. Broadcast 13/11/2009