Age-Sex-Location sees internet and virtual reality come alive on stage in a play that for the first time fully realizes the potential of integrating theatre and technology. The production combines, writer Marcus Markou's, entertaining, ingenious and dramatic script with Sven Ortel's state-of-the-art video projection and lighting design, under the direction of award-winning young director Pip Pickering.
Age-Sex-Location has video projection and lighting design by Sven Ortel, who together with Dick Straker of Mesmer has been responsible for video design realization for a string of National Theatre productions - The Coast of Utopia,Jerry Springer - the Opera, The Powerbook, Jumpers - and the Royal Court's West End hit Hitchcock Blonde. Mesmer will collaborate with XL Video to realize the production's full potential.
Sven Ortel said: "Having worked on a number of plays helping realize Bill Dudley's Olivier-award winning vision of how technology can make theatre work, I'm thrilled to be involved in a play where technology is firmly at the centre of a richly comic and dramatic story. Age-Sex-Location enables Mesmer to show the scope and creativity of the resources we have available, and to combine all the components to make a new, dramatic and striking stage language, communicating visually that which cannot be said any other way. Technology is firmly a part of popular culture and Age-Sex-Location places it at the centre of contemporary theatre. Video projection is a powerful tool for theatre designers: it moves, and integrates with lighting and stage design."Age-Sex-Locationis the Look Back in Anger of the 21st century - a play that opens a whole new potential for plays to entertain today's theatre goers. Casting will be announced later in November.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
