Automatic Writing / Thriller

Automatic Writing / Thriller
Site-based media theatre piece built around orchestral performance. Conductor Nicholas Collon.

Script, concept, direction, design, media
A collaboration with thriller writer Peter Straub
http://peterstraub.net/biography/

Aurora Orchestra, LSO St Lukes
Created in 2011
Link to Aurora Orchestra
Script
Critical Comment

One of my absolute favourite Aurora projects was ‘Thriller: Automatic Writing’, a collaboration in 2011 involving the American horror writer Peter Straub and director Tim Hopkins. It was the most radical experiment we’d attempted in re-imagining the possibilities of the concert format: a real theatrical journey, with seamless transitions between the music and players involved in the drama throughout. I remember feeling elated at how different it felt, and loved the fact that it divided critics so sharply (predictably some hated it, whilst others praised it to the skies)
John Harte
Chief Executive, Aurora Orchestra