TRISTAN SHARPS
Creative Director, dreamthinkspeak
dreamthinkspeak have been quietly reinventing site-specific theatre for some years now, creating walk-through shows all over the world.
THE INDEPENDENT
Tristan Sharps trained at Jacques Lecoq in Paris and has worked as a theatre maker for 35 years. He has been creating large-scale site- specific work since 1995, when he co-created 2000, transforming the Union Chapel in London into the fictional world of Roulettenburg Casino. He is internationally recognized as a key practitioner of site-responsive performance.
He founded dreamthinkspeak in1999 to explore how live performance can be created in different sites and communicated through a variety of art forms and technologies. Since then, he has created projects for over 40 different sites around the world, from an underground abattoir in Clerkenwell, London, to the vast Zuidas office-complex in Amsterdam, to the Old Treasury Building in Perth, Australia.
His work has been commissioned and presented by The Barbican, The National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal Opera House, London International Festival of Theatre, Somerset House, 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Liverpool 08 European City of Culture, Hull UK City of Culture 2017 and a host of international festivals and cultural organisations.
These days, “site-specific” is a label often slung around any play enacted in an uncomfortable space. Dreamthinkspeak’s marvellous work is different. It truly draws on a particular place to conjure a subject. It makes the buildings outside become vibrant with undisclosed possibilities. THE GUARDIAN
