by Maxine Doyle | May 2, 2011 | Press
By Hilton Als | The Theatre |May 2, 2011 Doors. Rooms filled with desks, old papers, stuffed animals, all dimly lit. We’re on the verge of horror. But where is it? In our very imaginations? One of the rooms contains a number of beds with iron frames; clipboards with...
by Maxine Doyle | Apr 28, 2009 | Press
By Josephine Machon About the book A timely book that identifies the practice of ‘(syn)aesthetics’ in artistic style and audience response, which articulates the power of experiential practice in the arts. Interviews with: LINDA BASSETT is an...
by Maxine Doyle | Oct 4, 2007 | Press
The Masque of the Red Death: A Night of Delicious Terror Charles Spencer | October 2007telegraph.co.uk Do you mind if I have a quiet sit down and a cup of hot, sweet tea? There’s something deeply disturbing going on at the old Battersea Town Hall, and my nerves...
by Maxine Doyle | Oct 4, 2007 | Press
by Michael Billington | 4 October, 2007★★★★☆theguardian.com “Wave goodbye to your friends,” one is enjoined at the start of Punchdrunk’s latest site-sympathetic extravaganza, based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Donning a white mask and a black...
by Maxine Doyle | Nov 23, 2006 | Press
Conversation with Josephine Machon, Brunel University London | November 2006 JM: Talk to me a little about your approach within the Punchdrunk aesthetic. MD: I’m really interested in the dancers’ ability to feel the space, touch spaces textures surfaces, temperatures....
by Maxine Doyle | Oct 19, 2006 | Press
By Lyn Gardner | Thursday 19 October 2006theguardian.com ★★★★★ Punchdrunk’s latest piece of immersive theatre takes you to places you have never been before. Step through the doors of 21 Wapping Lane – a vast disused warehouse in the original Tobacco Dock...
by Maxine Doyle | Mar 1, 2004 | Press
Editors’ Introduction: Eileen Kennedy and Andrew Thornton IT’S ONLY A GAMESHOW: Evolved Intelligences and Reality CulturePaul Woodward and Maxine Doyle Publisher Leisure Studies Association, March 2004 See extract below. Page 171Page 172Page 173Page...
by Maxine Doyle | Jun 26, 2001 | Press
communitydance.org.ukMaxine DoyleAnimated Edition Sumer 2001 ‘Never mind the plastic – this was the real thing! Punching the air, shouting and metaphorically grabbing the audience by the neck until their eyes popped out in a piece about clubbin’,...
