Get Up and Tie Your Fingers: Eyemouth - An applied theatre and interdisciplinary investigation of post-industrial communities
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 25954384
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- Customs House, South Shields
- Open access status
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- Month of first performance
- May
- Year of first performance
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Since 2014, MacPherson has directed adaptations of Ann Coburn’s play Get Up and Tie Your Fingers using applied theatre-making techniques as tools for creating interdisciplinary investigative methodologies across performance and sociology.
Working in applied theatre with post-industrial communities, MacPherson created innovative reflective rehearsal activities and strategies for making theatre, informed by Jean-Luc Nancy’s work on dialogic listening practices. This involved participants in a practice- based enquiry into choral narrative theatre-making using testimonies, song and movement.
MacPherson’s work extends existing applied theatre-making by incorporating Nancy’s analysis of listening into explorations of local, participant voice and the ethical creation of community forms of knowledge. This listening discourse informed methodologies employed in a reflective dialogic relationship between MacPherson and participants sociologist Carol Stephenson and choreographer Liz Pavey. This dialogue underpinned a wider investigative programme in a publication jointly authored by MacPherson and Stephenson and in performances as follows:
Get Up and Tie Your Fingers (GUATYF):
National tour to 12 East Coast locations, 2014. Winner of the Best Regional Revival Award from The British Theatre Guide. Part of Follow the Herring (FTH) theatre and visual art experience engaging 29,280 people.
Get Up and Tie Your Fingers: Eyemouth (GUATYF:E)
Eyemouth Parish Church, June 2016.
As part of the Dedication Service of the Widows and Bairns sculpture, Eyemouth, October 2016. Tradfest, The National Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, April 2017.
Findings have also been disseminated through five conference papers. Funding included Arts Council England (£218,000 in 2014), and Creative Scotland (£9,670 in 2016 and £11,950 in 2019).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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