Theatre Grown in a Dark Lab the Arches Award for Stage Directors has Introduced Some Creative Visionaries to the Stage. The Arches Award for Stage Directors has Introduced Some Creative Visionaries to the Stage. Neil Cooper Meets Its 2006 Winners, Stuart Murdoch and Alan Mckendrick

The Herald › April 11, 2006

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FIRST nights are a nightmare. All that air-kissing, grand gesturing and shrill, ever so slightly too loud conversations between consenting adults old enough to know better gives theatre a bad name. Better, then, than to take the culture vultures by surprise and confound their expectations.

Such theatrical sleight of hand has been common to The Arches Award for Stage Directors, which since its inception, has introduced the world to the creative visions of the likes of Adrian Osmond, Martin Danziger and Neil Doherty. That all recipients of the award are respected players in their own right speaks volumes about artistic director Andy Arnold's willingness to take risks with relatively untried talent, on the strength of idea and conviction alone.

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Theatre Grown in a Dark Lab the Arches Award for Stage Directors has Introduced Some Creative Visionaries to the Stage. The Arches Award for Stage Directors has Introduced Some Creative Visionaries to the Stage. Neil Cooper Meets Its 2006 Winners, Stuart Murdoch and Alan Mckendrick

The year 2005 saw The Arches awards hit stratospheric heights following the production of winner Davey Anderson's play, Snuff. It was a high-octane dissection of the fallout of life during wartime with seemingly legislated torture deemed acceptable as one more video nasty. The show took full advantage of The Arches's claustrophobic space to create an electrifyi...

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