Take A Seat

TAKE A SEAT is a collective response to the spaces we cannot be in, a teeny call to arms, an art installation and love letter to the audiences we are missing.

[Take A Seat @takeaseat20]

#throwbackthursday to this time last week to celebrate our last post on social media around #takeaseat

#LoveTheatreScotland
#LoveDanceScotland
#MissingLivePerformance
#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

Photographs: @stillmotionarts

[Take A Seat @takeaseat20]

@zoeambullock is a Glasgow-based writer &performer.
She misses being in a room full of people all experiencing the same moments of ephemeral magic that vanish as soon as they appear.

#takeaseat
#LoveTheatreScotland
#LoveDanceScotland
#MissingLivePerformance

[Take A Seat @takeaseat20]

Martin Foreman is a writer/director who, after several false starts in his youth, came back to the theatre later in life.

His #takeaseat is where he spends much of the day staring at a screen.

#takeaseat
#LoveTheatreScotland
#LoveDanceScotland
#MissingLivePerformance

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@lyceumtheatre Thank you.

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Set & Costume Designer Hazel Blue's #takeaseat
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We can escape from the trials & tribulations of the world, but we are also often encouraged to look deeper, take notice & make a difference. Theatre thrives on tactile, human contact, nurturing community, acceptance and empathy.

[Take A Seat @takeaseat20]

Sadly, that is a wrap. We want to thank everyone who took the time to come & see it @lyceumtheatre.

Hopefully, it will not be too long until we are back inside theatres creating work on stage.

To our audiences - WE MISS YOU!

#takeaseat
#LoveTheatreScotland
#LoveDanceScotland

[Take A Seat @takeaseat20]

@TechTheatreAbby @SDTNtweets @RCStweets @lyceumtheatre Thank you coming and sharing your story x

[Isla Cowan @islacowan]

I went to see @takeaseat20 at @lyceumtheatre this afternoon, knowing it would be spectacular but not realising quite how emotional I would find it. Stood there in my waterproofs having a wee weep

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@islacowan @lyceumtheatre Thank you for coming

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@Niloo_Kay shares her #takeaseat - a rehearsal stool she uses. It is currently adapting, as we all are, showcasing her plant behind a different set of curtains to a different kind of audience. She hopes that it will get the chance to be on stage doing the real thing again soon.

[Take A Seat @takeaseat20]

Another nice write-up in @FountainReview. Only two more days to see #takeaseat. Witness them come alive through sound and light, 7.30pm (Fri + Sat), 2.30pm (Sat) @lyceumtheatre

#LoveTheatreScotland
#MissingLivePerformance
#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

https://t.co/HkDNUF7nnn

[Take A Seat @takeaseat20]

@YBuskie shares her #takeaseat with some truly beautiful words from her residency - Buskie + Tjåland, Lalandhuset Residency, Rogaland, Norway
Thursday 11 June 2015.

To read her full poem, head to: https://t.co/HKbIfywNnZ

#takeaseat
#LoveTheatreScotland
#MissingLivePerformance

[The Lyceum @lyceumedinburgh]

The Lyceum is glowing thanks to @takeaseat20's poignant installation celebrating Scotland's missing theatre & letting audiences know how much they're missed.

Have you popped down for a visit? If not, check out this ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review to find out what it's all about! #TakeASeat

[Take A Seat @takeaseat20]

Leila Kalbassi is @DundeeRep Design Assistant & Scenic Artist. Her first experience of theatre, at least the first she can recall is probably around the 1980s ... a school’s T.I.E. Tour. Her last production before Lockdown was The Rep's very own Smile, designed by Kenny Miller.

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Lorna Irvine is a freelance arts critic based in Glasgow. She misses the visceral reaction to theatre, and has been dazzled, transported, bored, engaged and even triggered- sometimes, all during the same production!

#takeaseat
#LoveTheatreScotland
#MissingLivePerformance

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"Necessary mementos" ★★★★★ @AllEdinTheatre

@ThomDibdin gives #takeaseat ★★★★★ and says it's "engaging and poignant".

https://t.co/AEyxV0hEud

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@AllEdinTheatre @ThomDibdin @lyceumtheatre Thank you!!! Five BIG juicy stars

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Thanks @lyngardner for writing about #takeaseat in @TheStage.

https://t.co/r669yfDvj0

#takeaseat
#LoveTheatreScotland
#MissingLivePerformance
#lovelettertoaudiences
#takeaseat
#celebratefreelancers

[Take A Seat @takeaseat20]

#MusicMonday & we want to share some of the music for #takeaseat, @dpj1969's hypnotic score #TheOldManOfStorr.

If you haven't seen our installation yet, then you have until Sat. Catch it at performance times, 7.30pm (Mon- Sat) & 2.30pm (Wed & Sat).

https://t.co/Qnd1rqMbCe

[Take A Seat @takeaseat20]

EmmaClaire Brightlyn is an Action Designer & Fight Director. And she loves a good chair. To catch someone, to kick, to fall from, to smack against. To hide things in. Sometimes even to break.

She can't wait to get back to telling stories.

#takeaseat
#LoveTheatreScotland