Seth Compton

Ideas and inspirations

  • Schulz

    We lived on the Rynek, in one of those dark houses with empty blind looks, so difficult to distinguish one from the other.

    This gave endless possibilities for mistakes. For, once you had entered the wrong doorway and set foot on the wrong staircase, you were liable to find yourself in a real labyrinth of unfamiliar apartments and balconies, and unexpected doors opening on to strange empty courtyards, and you forgot the initial object of the expedition, only to recall it days later after numerous strange and complicated adventures, on regaining the family home in the grey light of dawn.
    -Bruno Schulz, 1934

    Drawing on Schulz
    Cast: Sam Alty, Gabriel Rodriguez Almagro, Stephanie Bain, Georgina Biggs, Agnieszka Bresler, Seth Compton, Angela Delichatsios, Paolo Garghentino, Ilona Krawczyk, Piotr Antek Kurjata, Rea Mole, Mariae Smiarowska

    Artistic Director: Anna Zubrzycki
    Assistant Directors: Rafal Habel, Anu Salonen,
    Creative Consultant: Gabriel Gawin
    Music: Maciej Rychly, Sam Alty and traditional Romanian music and songs
    Set and Costume design: Mira Zelechower-Aleksiun
    Production Coordinator: Rafal Habel
    Production Assistant: Diego Pileggi
    Artwork: Klaudia Kost, Kamila Dydak
    Expedition Coordinator: Niamh Dowling
    Documentary Filmmaker: Tomo Brody
    Expedition Translator: Gina Calinoiu

    Teatr Pieśń Kozła, Wroclaw, Poland
    12 and 13 April 2012, 7pm
    22 and 23 April 2012, 7pm

    Capitol Theatre, Manchester, UK
    18 April 2012, 3pm and 6pm

    Young Vic Theatre, London, UK
    20 April 2012, 2.30pm and 4pm

  • Romania Photos

    I got my first digital camera. Here are some photos from the Romania expedition. Some of these were used by the scenic designer to create the world for actors to play in.

  • Romania Video

    Along with a group of theater students I traveled to rural parts of Romania where we began the creative process of making a new devised theater work. We learned dances and songs from the people we met which were then adapted and built into the performance.