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A Short History of Activated Image
 
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Activated Image was founded by artistic director Adam Barnard as a platform for experimentation and innovation. Early (student) work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe focused on multimedia, using live and recorded video to re-imagine Shakespeare's The Tempest (1998), with a drum 'n' bass score by long-standing company member Peter Michaels. The devised ensemble performance dream.2000 (1999) explored our growing obsession with reality TV and superficial emblems such as the millennium. ("A neat and perceptive satire" - The Scotsman).
 


Tom Richardson in The Tempest (1998)
The company regrouped in 2001 with a focus on developing new plays, innovatively presented, through exploratory dramaturgical processes. With writer-in-residence John Finnemore we devised two plays, Amy Evans' Strike (2001) and The Straight Man (2002) using a process where the company met regularly over a number of months to workshop character, story, scenes, physicality and playing style.