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Scott Graham, co-founder of Frantic Assembly, and Geordie Brookman, artistic director of State Theatre Company, discuss collaborating on this unique project.
Mar 15, 2013 · Director Scott Graham discusses lonely souls and filming on a desolate stretch of road in the Scottish Highlands for his powerful first feature.
At that particular point in time, though, the author was just trying to make a living. He wasn’t truly content until he became a published author with a dedicated fanbase which appreciated his mystery novels in ways no one ever had. Graham started his career as a nonfiction writer.
Scott Graham ’s first feature film Shell explores the fraught relationship between a father and a daughter – Shell and Pete – living in a petrol station in the remote Scottish Highlands in the absence of Shell’s mother. Shell’s love for her father, for whom she tries to replace a wife, makes it difficult for her to leave her lonely ...
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We meet at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre where he is rehearsing Frantic’s latest show, I Think We Are Alone, with co-director Kathy Burke. It’s a piece on loneliness and love by TV writer Sally Abbott. “If, when I am making something, I start thinking: ‘This is good’, I’m now wise enough to know it should set alarm bells ringing. If I think it...
…The first day of rehearsals Never trust that good feeling on day one of rehearsals. I don’t mean to be negative, but you always feel everything’s great on day one, but none of it will make it into the show. …Physical theatre When people talk about physical theatre, they tend to think it is all about choreography. But it’s all about stillness and p...
Unlike many companies that conducted workshops around their productions, often exploring the content and themes of the shows, Frantic invited people to share in the process, which was a boon to those teaching college and school courses. It tapped into a hunger to know how professional companies went about making theatre, and it had the welcome side...
What was your first non-theatre job? Saturday job in a sports shop. The coolest Saturday job in town. And then working summers in an electrical-component warehouse. What was your first professional theatre job? Artistic director of Frantic Assembly. Before that, I was an unpaid but very grateful performer in Volcano Theatre’s Manifesto. What is you...
Frantic’s backing of new writing is often underestimated as well, both as a commissioner of plays but also in expanding the idea of what new writing is and how much it is a collaborative process. The roster of writers who have worked with Frantic is strong: Abi Morgan, Mark Ravenhill, Michael Wynne, Chris O’Connell, Anna Jordan, Bryony Lavery and S...
Born: Glasgow, 1971 Training: English literature BA (hons) at Swansea University; workshops with Volcano Theatre Landmark productions: • Generation Trilogy, various tours (1995-98) • Sell Out, Battersea Arts Centre (1998); Ambassadors Theatre, London (1999) • Hymns, Lyric Hammersmith (1999) • Tiny Dynamite, Lyric Hammersmith (2001) • Dirty Wonderla...
Aug 30, 2016 · This highly anticipated new work is written by Andrew Bovell and has been in development for the past 3-years under the directorship of Frantic's Scott Graham and State Theatre's Geordie Brookman. Jesse Stanley chats to Scott and Geordie about their process and cross-continental partnership.
Feb 4, 2015 · Scott Graham, co-founder and Artistic Director of Frantic Assembly, first brought his reimagining of Othello to the stage in 2008, later garnering a Best Direction award at TMA Theatre Awards.
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