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Shopworks
for everyone over 6 years old
Co-commissioned by LIFT and Wiener Festwochen
England: May 2003 / Austria: June 2003
| Directed by | Sue Buckmaster |
| in collaboration with | |
| Guest Artist | Gary Stevens |
| and | |
| Installation Artist | Sophia Clist |
| Sound Designer | Evelyn Ficarra |
| Lighting Designer | Sebastian Hall |
| Assistant Director | Mervyn Millar |
| Assistant Director | Caroline Thaw |
| Production Manager | Jon Howes |
| Stage Managers | Gareth Williams and Emily Laurens |
| Performers | Charles Broughton, Kyriaki Doxara, Michael Mellinger, Christabel Muir, Stella Sargeson, Helen Shearcroft, Yvonne Stone |
Shopworks began life when Theatre-Rites took over an empty corner shop in Tooting, London. Commissioned by LIFT and Wiener Festwochen it was performed throughout May 2003 in London, before transferring to a disused corner shop in Vienna for June 2003. In Vienna the show was recreated for the new space and performed in a combination of German and English.
This is a shop with a mind of its own … Step off the street into the Theatre-Rites shop – a world of wondrous transformations and strange happenings where the items for sale take on a life of their own. Meet the inhabitants, a bizarre group of shop assistants in brown coats clinging to their daily routines – collecting, sorting, weighing, wrapping, labelling and stacking. In this apparently ordinary world, discover what lurks beyond the counter and journey deep into the hidden back rooms.
“London’s most exciting theatrical experience”
The Guardian