ANDY SMITH THEATRE
This page contains a comprehensive list of previous work and publications. If you have or require any information about any of this please do not hesitate to get in touch.
PLAYS AND PERFORMANCES
2023
A CITIZENS' ASSEMBLY: A Play For The People (work in progress/currently in development)
2022
Truth’s A Dog Must To Kennel
By Tim Crouch, co-director (with Karl James). Commissioned by The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. First performed August 2022.
2021
ARE WE RACIST? A Play For The People
Part of the ‘plays for the people’ project. In collaboration with Aleasha Chaunte. Supported by The Social Responsibility Fund at The University of Manchester, in collaboration with Oldham Coliseum.
2020
THE RULE OF SIX: A Play For The People
Part of the ‘plays for the people’ project. A play to read and discuss for six participants at a time in public spaces and on ZOOM during lockdown.
2019
total immediate collective imminent terrestrial salvation
By Tim Crouch, co-director (with Karl James). Commissioned by National Theatre Scotland, first performed at Edinburgh International Festival, and subsequently at The Royal Court Theatre.
2018
COMMONISM
A new performance written and performed in collaboration with Amund Sjølie Sveen, Commissioned by BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen)
2017
SUMMIT
A new play performed in an integrated mix of BSL and English. Written by Andy Smith. Co-directed with Claire Lamont (RCS), produced by Fuel. Co-commissioned by Brighton Festival 2017. UK tour 2018, performed at Edinburgh International Festival 2019.
2016
THE ACTIONS: A Play For The People
A play without actors, to be read and discussed by the assembled audience, created in collaboration with director Sam Pritchard, commissioned by The Yard Theatre.
2016
Adler & Gibb
By Tim Crouch, Co-director (with Tim Crouch and Karl James). A new touring version of this 2014 play, first performed at Summerhall as part of the Edinburgh Fringe, and subsequently performed in the UK and US in 2016/17.
2015
The Preston Bill
Commissioned by Fuel Funded by Arts Council England and The Esmeé Fairbairn foundation, toured nationwide from 2015 - 2018.
2014
Adler & Gibb
By Tim Crouch. Co-director (with Tim Crouch and Karl James), The Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs.
2013
what happens to the hope at the end of the evening
Co-writer and performer (with Tim Crouch), Almeida Theatre, London.
2012
commonwealth
Commissioned by Gateshead International Festival of Theatre.
2011
all that is solid melts into air
Commissioned by Black Box Teater, Oslo and BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen.
2010
Eiketreet (An Oak Tree)
By Tim Crouch. Director, Nationaltheatret, Oslo.
2009
The Author
By Tim Crouch. Co-director (with Karl James), Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs.
2009
the next two days of everything
Commissioned by Black Box Teater, Oslo and BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen.
2008
Music
Concert/performance by Norwegian contemporary music ensemble Ning. Writer/Director, Black Box Theatre, Oslo.
2007
Innvandrer
Commissioned by Black Box Teater, Oslo.
2007
hvor er du?/where are you?
A work for young people. Co-writer and performer, with Amund Sjølie Sveen, commissioned by The Cultural Rucksack, Norway.
2007
ENGLAND
By Tim Crouch. Co-director (with Karl James), Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (commissioned by The Traverse Theatre).
2006
Transitt
Concert/performance by Norwegian contemporary music ensemble Ning. Co-director (with Kai Johnson), Black Box Teater, Oslo.
2006
The Ibsen Hut
Commissioned by Nationaltheatret, Oslo for Ibsen Year 2006.
2005
An Oak Tree
By Tim Crouch. Co-director (with Karl James and Tim Crouch), commissioned by The Traverse Theatre, 10th Anniversary revival at the National Theatre, London in 2015.
2005
square
Three week research performance commissioned by BAC, London.
PUBLICATIONS
2020
Meeting in The Theatre. Chapter in ‘World Political Performance: Theory and Practice’ edited by Mireia Aragay (University of Barcelona) with Paola Botham and Jose Ramon Prado, IFTR/Brill Books. 2020.
This Is It: Notes on a Dematerialised Theatre. Essay in The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader, Routledge, London, 2020.
2018
The Question is Not… Article in a special edition of the journal Theatre, Dance and Performance Training on Dartington College of Arts. London, Routledge, 2018.
SUMMIT, London, Oberon Modern Plays, 2018.
2017
Being Patient With What We Don’t Understand, April 2017. Part of The Lark Theatre’s (New York) ‘Stages of Resistance’ blog salon curated by Caridad Svich. http://www.larktheatre.org/blog/being-patient-what-we-dont-understand/
2015
The Preston Bill, commonwealth and all that is solid melts into air. London, Oberon Modern Plays, 2015.
What can we do? In Innovation In Five Acts, Svich, Caridad (ed.) New York, Theatre Communications Group, 2015.
2014.
what happens to the hope at the end of the evening, London, Oberon Books, 2014.
2011
Afterword, in Tim Crouch Plays: One, Oberon Books, London, 2011.
Gentle Acts of Removal, Replacement and Reduction: Considering the Audience in Co-Directing the Work of Tim Crouch, Contemporary Theatre Review 21 (4), 410 – 415. London, Taylor & Francis, 2011.
2009
The Ibsen Hut: A project by a smith, Performance Research, Performing Literatures 14 (1), 77 – 79. London, Taylor & Francis
2005
A note from a smith, Introduction to An Oak Tree, London, Oberon Books, 2005 (reprinted 2015, 2023).
