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WSD2017|Tales From The Mall
 
1-9 July.Taipei, Taiwan
An extraordinary festival of performance design, including exhibitions, performances
and diverse events,attracted over 15,000 visitors from 71 countries.

Exhibition

Emerging Designers

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Catherine McLauchlan

Tales From The Mall

Category: Performance Design, Alternative

Design Statement

Inspired by Ewan Morrison's book 'Tales From the Mall’, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland students worked alongside professional artists from National Theatre of Scotland to create a site specific intervention at the Forge Shopping Centre in Glasgow

NTS associates facilitated workshops in their practise and its application to research and site specific performance. We then devised pop-up installations for micro audiences as a means of researching content for the main intervention.

Intending to create a haven for community engagement and counteract - for a short time - “The Gruen Effect” (a phenomenon whereby architecture has the opposite social consequences to those envisaged) we developed a selection of small but beautiful experiences using the avatar of architect Victor Gruen as inspiration: “The Mall Lounge”: a place to take a break, listen to stories or make music; “Victoria’s Secret” and “Victor’s Vision” five minute pieces of intimate theatre; peripatetic barbershop group the “Singing Gruens”.

The design intent was to take ownership of our allocated space with an instantly welcoming, nostalgic 1950s vibe through bold use of colour and extant features of the spaces and a kooky yet approachable persona via the performers’ costumes that made them instantly identifiable as neither shoppers nor sales staff.

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Catherine McLauchlan

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Email Address: catfjm@gmail.com

Theatre Company National Theatre of Scotland / Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

The Premiere Date of Production 2015-03-26

The Premiere Space of Production The Forge Shopping Centre

Author Devised by cast and creative team, inspired by the book by Ewan Morrison

Director/ Choreographer Peter Collins

Set Designer Catherine McLauchlan

Lighting Designer n/a

Costume Designer Catherine McLauchlan

Sound Designer Tim Reid

Projection and Multi-Media Designer Tim Reid

Other Creative Collaborator/s Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Students (devising & performing): Katie Barnett, Euan Bennet, Elizabeth Bouckley, Emily Bradley, Jamie Buchanan, Paige Campbell, Robbie Gordon, Eleanor Griffiths, Connie Hartley, Christopher Marshal, Corrie McKendrick, Catherine McLauchlan, Sarah Miele, Gudrun Soley, Sigurdardottir, Matthew Wilkinson.

National Theatre of Scotland Associates (facilitating and producing): Karen Allan, Colin Bell, Peter Collins, Lewis Heatherington, Danny Krass, Becky Minto, Tim Reid, Simon Sharkey


Royal Conservatoire staff: Professor Anna Birch
Author of the book "Tales From the Mall": Ewan Morrison