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PHOENIX SCRATCH OVERVIEW
What's so special about theatre in an age dominated by the TV? Who's making live performance now? Why do they bother? And what's in it for the audience?
Eleven Phoenix Scratch nights during 2005 & 2006 saw dozens of artists test and discuss new performance ideas with audiences, resulting in four commissions from Andrea Turner, Search Party, Low Profile and Neil Callaghan/Simone Kenyon.
Now Phoenix Scratch is back. And throughout 2007 and 2008 it will be based in the Second Life® world.
What is Second Life? It's a 3D online digital world, imagined and created by its fourteen million plus residents. Many big businesses now have islands there, Suzanne Vega's played live there, you can book holidays through tour operators, and Sweden has even opened an embassy there.
There will be four new commissioned works, a series of events with open-calls for artists to try out new performance experiments, and a symposium in autumn 2008.
Phoenix Scratch is supported by Arts Council England (Lottery Funded).
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