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A Short History of Activated Image
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Amy Evans' Strike, The
Straight Man and Latin! originated at the Edinburgh Festival.
Latin! transferred to Brighton's Marlborough Theatre, then
London's New End Theatre, and finally played three weeks at
the King's Head, Islington: being a comedy by Stephen Fry,
and having generated some rent-a-quote outrage from the Tories
over its satirical depiction of a boys' prep school, it was
a significant commercial success. Revenue generated paid for
development work on The Straight Man and The Principle of
Motion.
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With 2003's acclaimed devised show
The Principle of Motion, Activated Image settled on its current
direction, moving further away from traditional text-based
theatre. This devised piece focused on stories of automata
and artificial intelligence and twinned two main narrative
strands with a number of tangential set pieces, some non-verbal,
some improvised.
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The Principle of Motion (2003)
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Music, always very important
to our work, gained an even more central role with the introduction
of modern dance influences in the physicality, particularly
in the segues between the play's twenty one scenes. We attempted
in the construction of the piece to express the randomness
and unpredictability of an exciting conversation: when we
talk - when we tell stories - we dive in and out of subjects,
jump from one sub-clause to another, allow a certain word
or thought to take us off in a new direction. The play likewise
was non-linear; one scene would "interrupt" another.
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