The Man in the Wide-Awake Hat: Pugin’s Gothic Adventure
Written by Clive Holland
Produced by Clive Holland and Suzy Humphries
Directed by Ellie Jones
A new play of a monumental life performed in 2013 with much support from The Pugin Society who included us in a funding bid as part of Pugin’s Bicentenary Celebrations.
AWN Pugin: Architect, Designer, Theorist. He rushed headlong through a turbulent life: shipwrecked, bankrupted, widowed twice, driven to madness and died aged forty. “I am a locomotive man”, he declared. He took on life at full-tilt, designed cathedrals, re-invented the family home, gave the world one of its most iconic buildings and inspired a generation. Driven by his faith Pugin created beauty and pointed to a better and fairer future. His thoughts still resonate in our brutal twenty-first century world.
We created a series of community events and workshops exploring the genius of Pugin in the lead up to this play’s first performances in Ramsgate. We produced writing, theatre and arts workshops, created a series of talks and had some lively discussions in Community Centres, Clubs, Associations, schools and colleges with people from all backgrounds and ages about art and architecture. This was the beginning of Mischievous Theatre’s greater involvement with our local community and led us to becoming a CIC (Community Interest Company).
Cast: Alix Cavanagh, Nick Downes, Max Mackintosh and Clive Holland
Technicals, video, sound and lighting: Tony Gleave
Set/props and many arts workshops: Emily Tull
The Man in the Wide-Awake Hat: Pugin’s Gothic Adventure
Written by Clive Holland
Produced by Clive Holland and Suzy Humphries
Directed by Ellie Jones
A new play of a monumental life performed in 2013 with much support from The Pugin Society who included us in a funding bid as part of Pugin’s Bicentenary Celebrations.
AWN Pugin: Architect, Designer, Theorist. He rushed headlong through a turbulent life: shipwrecked, bankrupted, widowed twice, driven to madness and died aged forty. “I am a locomotive man”, he declared. He took on life at full-tilt, designed cathedrals, re-invented the family home, gave the world one of its most iconic buildings and inspired a generation. Driven by his faith Pugin created beauty and pointed to a better and fairer future. His thoughts still resonate in our brutal twenty-first century world.
We created a series of community events and workshops exploring the genius of Pugin in the lead up to this play’s first performances in Ramsgate. We produced writing, theatre and arts workshops, created a series of talks and had some lively discussions in Community Centres, Clubs, Associations, schools and colleges with people from all backgrounds and ages about art and architecture. This was the beginning of Mischievous Theatre’s greater involvement with our local community and led us to becoming a CIC (Community Interest Company).
Cast: Alix Cavanagh, Nick Downes, Max Mackintosh and Clive Holland
Technicals, video, sound and lighting: Tony Gleave
Set/props and many arts workshops: Emily Tull
The Man in the Wide-Awake Hat: Pugin’s Gothic Adventure
Written by Clive Holland
Produced by Clive Holland and Suzy Humphries
Directed by Ellie Jones
A new play of a monumental life performed in 2013 with much support from The Pugin Society who included us in a funding bid as part of Pugin’s Bicentenary Celebrations.
AWN Pugin: Architect, Designer, Theorist. He rushed headlong through a turbulent life: shipwrecked, bankrupted, widowed twice, driven to madness and died aged forty. “I am a locomotive man”, he declared. He took on life at full-tilt, designed cathedrals, re-invented the family home, gave the world one of its most iconic buildings and inspired a generation. Driven by his faith Pugin created beauty and pointed to a better and fairer future. His thoughts still resonate in our brutal twenty-first century world.
We created a series of community events and workshops exploring the genius of Pugin in the lead up to this play’s first performances in Ramsgate. We produced writing, theatre and arts workshops, created a series of talks and had some lively discussions in Community Centres, Clubs, Associations, schools and colleges with people from all backgrounds and ages about art and architecture. This was the beginning of Mischievous Theatre’s greater involvement with our local community and led us to becoming a CIC (Community Interest Company).
Cast: Alix Cavanagh, Nick Downes, Max Mackintosh and Clive Holland
Technicals, video, sound and lighting: Tony Gleave
Set/props and many arts workshops: Emily Tull