After building a free DIY film school, Forest Fringe are making a movie this summer. Here’s Andy Field on why.
Andy Field
Articles by Andy Field
30 July 2018
Features • Essays
The Festival That Never Sleeps
By Andy Field
Andy Field writes on sleep-deprivation at the Edinburgh fringe, and the challenges of making new spaces in a world where time is commodified.
9 May 2018
Features • Essays
Lyn Gardner: Where the Edges Meet the Centre
By Andy Field
Following the announcement that Lyn Gardner’s position as Guardian theatre critic is being cut, Andy Field writes on why her role is too important to be lost.
30 April 2018
Features • Essays
Nocturne
By Andy Field
Andy Field writes on how encounters with the natural world inspired a new night-time performance, on as part of LIFT Festival 2018.
3 January 2017
Features
Urban Heat: Maribor
By Andy Field
What do we do if the world doesn’t end? Andy Field, co-director of Forest Fringe, considers history and community in Maribor. This is the last in a series of dispatches from Urban Heat – a project exploring the future of theatre’s engagement with urban space and communities.
27 September 2016
Features
Urban Heat: London
By Andy Field
“London is not interested in our ideas” – Andy Field encounters the corporate greed which defines the city’s visions of the future. This is part of a series of dispatches from Urban Heat – a new project exploring the future of theatre’s engagement with urban space and communities.
6 September 2016
Features
Urban Heat: Dro
By Andy Field
Andy Field, co-director of Forest Fringe, explores the tiny mountain village of Dro, using its forests to think about how we can reimagine society from the ground up. This is part of a series of dispatches from Urban Heat – a new project exploring the future of theatre’s engagement with urban space and communities.
25 April 2016
Features
Urban Heat: Cairo
By Andy Field
Andy Field, co-director of Forest Fringe, explores Cairo’s complicated streets, and its even more complicated politics. This is the first in a series of dispatches from Urban Heat – a new project exploring the future of theatre’s engagement with urban space and communities.
15 July 2015
Features
Forest Fringe: Work on a Human Scale
By Andy Field
Andy Field on taking the Forest Fringe to China and making work which says ‘hello.’
16 October 2014
Features
The Things Bodies Can Do
By Andy Field
Andy Field spends a weekend at Birmingham’s Fierce Festival of performance.
23 June 2014
Features • Essays
Unreal Writers
By Andy Field
Andy Field on Deborah Pearson’s The Future Show and Christopher Brett Bailey’s THIS IS HOW WE DIE.
10 June 2014
Features
Estrangements and Fractures
By Andy Field
Japan, the uncanny and the work of Toshidi Okada.
12 May 2014
Reviews • Wales
Raw Material: Llareggub Revisited
Laugharne ⋄ 3rd - 5th May 2014
By Andy Field
A song of ourselves.
5 February 2014
Features
Thinking by Doing
By Andy Field
Andy Field on embodied thought and one-on-one performance.
7 November 2012
Features • Essays • Performance
On documentation, considering film
By Andy Field
Space to dream of monsters.