Dido & Aeneas takes place across multiple sets and spaces. This style of theatre is called ‘promenade’ or ‘site-specific’ theatre. Grab some paper and pens. Grab a friend or work in groups, and have a go at designing your own site-specific theatre work in the following learning activity.
- Choose a play or story you know well.
- If you were to stage this story in a promenade or site-specific theatre style, where would you do it, and what parts of the story would take place in which parts of your chosen location? (aim for now more than 4-5 different locations).
- Come up with a name for each of your locations in the promenade based on the action that happens there.
- Create a mood board, Pinterest board, or collage of images to describe the look and feeling of one of the locations in your show.
Need some inspiration?
Sleep No More. A promenade style retelling of Macbeth taking place in different rooms of a hotel in New York.
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Car. An immersive theatre experience that took place in a car as audiences were driven around central Auckland.
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Grimm Tales. A retelling of classic children's fairy tales where audiences were guided through Tower Wharf in London.
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