about a smith
Andy Smith has been making theatre and performance as a smith since 2001, creating a large body of work that is characteristically simple and accessible in form but unafraid to approach and address big subjects. His most recent solo projects are the next two days of everything (2009) and all that is solid melts into air (2011). Information on these and other projects can be found below. Short video extracts of these and other pieces can be found by visiting here and here.
Along with Karl James he is the co-director of the award winning plays An Oak Tree, ENGLAND and The Author by Tim Crouch. More information about these plays can be found by visiting the website of Tim Crouch Theatre here.
He is currently an AHRC scholar undertaking a practice-as-research PhD at Lancaster University, where he also teaches performance practice and composition in the Theatre Studies department.
current projects
all that is solid melts into air is a work for theatre spaces about how we change the world. Commissioned by and co-produced with BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen and Black Box Teater, Oslo, the work was performed for the first time in Bergen on the 5th of February 2011, and has since been performed in Oslo, Stamsund, Manchester, Dublin and Leeds. The next performance of the work will be at Live Theatre, Newcastle on 11th of March 2012. More details and information about tickets can be found here. A short video excerpt of the work can be found here.
some other end beginning is a short work for theatre spaces commissioned by Live at LICA as part of the project An exquisite corpse for 2012. This year long project will see 12 artists from around the world respond to a fragment of each others work handed on to the next as in the game of consequences. You can read more about the ongoing project here.
commonwealth is a new work for theatre and other spaces that tells a story of a diverse group of people meeting that is currently in development that has been commissioned by Gateshead International Festival of Theatre (GIFT) 2012. This year the festival will take place between the 4th and the 6th of May. For more information please visit here.
contact a smith
If you have any questions or would like a dvd of all that is solid melts into air please do not hesitate to get in touch with me. You can do this by sending an email to asmithemail@btinternet.com or by calling +44 (0)7941053719
Hope to see you somewhere down the road.
a smith