Category Archives: Research and Development

Stand up now, Diggers all!

Posted on April 18, 2018 by DaedalusAdmin

After an amazing few months, with a commission from Ovalhouse, followed by performances at Brixton City Festival, and then a residency at Queen Mary uni to develop ways to work with locals to create a bespoke version of the show … Continue reading →

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Mobile Incitement in Tower Hamlets!

Posted on February 22, 2018 by DaedalusAdmin

Following our residency at Queen Mary University of London, we’ll be sharing our Tower-Hamlets-specific version of Gerrard Winstanley’s True and Righteous Mobile Incitement Unit both on campus (22nd March) and at Poplar Union (6th May), a great new venue in the borough. … Continue reading →

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Mobile Incitement: A Call for Crowdfunding

Posted on August 2, 2017 by DaedalusAdmin

Help us tell the real story of our country’s history… With politicians across the world trying to twist history to serve their own ends, we, the people, need to tell our own stories. That’s why Daedalus Theatre Company and The … Continue reading →

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R&D

Posted on June 22, 2017 by DaedalusAdmin

We had such a great week of R&D (radicalism & dissent), working on Gerrard Winstanley’s True and Righteous Mobile Incitement Unit with The Black Smock Band and Gerrard himself, who kindly joined us from the C17th. A massive thank you … Continue reading →

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The Project Formerly Known as Radical History

Posted on April 6, 2017 by DaedalusAdmin

GERRARD WINSTANLEY’S TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS MOBILE INCITEMENT UNIT is the name for the collaborations with The Black Smock Band that we were developing under the working title of The Radical History Project. There’s a project page here, plus there’s loads more … Continue reading →

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Radical History continues…

Posted on March 16, 2017 by DaedalusAdmin

We had a great session yesterday working in collaboration with The Black Smock Band and Rhiannon Kelly on our new project exploring England’s history of protest, radicalism and dissent. Exciting things to come. Watch this space…!  

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Going Beyond East

Posted on December 16, 2015 by DaedalusAdmin

Left to right: Farah Naz, Shamim Azad, Paul Burgess and Sef Townend. Photo credit: Indigo East‘s behind-the-scenes organisational team met at Rich Mix to plan the next stages of the project. What started as a simple, short-term community storytelling project (led … Continue reading →

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Radical History: project definitely underway

Posted on November 16, 2015 by DaedalusAdmin

Thanks to Ovalhouse, the Arts Council and private funders, we had our first proper development period on our collaboration with The Black Smock Band: an undertaking which emerged from our East storytelling project but which seems to be taking on … Continue reading →

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Radical History at Ovalhouse

Posted on October 20, 2015 by DaedalusAdmin

Protest and rebellion are as English as rainy bank holidays, cream teas and plundering foreign countries. But plenty of people would have us ignore the great radical moments of our history. As part of our commitment to exploring the potent mix … Continue reading →

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Alex provokes

Posted on May 22, 2015 by DaedalusAdmin

Here’s a great provocation from This Thing Called Artist Development at Ovalhouse by Alex Swift. The full title of the talk is “Samuel Beckett’s First Play Was Shit And It Took A World War For Him To Write A Good … Continue reading →

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