station stories
A joint Manchester Literature Festival/Bury Text Festival production in May 2011, Station Stories was a unique site-specific promenade literature event using digital technology and live improvised electronic sound.
From platform to platform, café to café and shop to shop, six writers took an audience on a creative trip of Piccadilly Station, reading specially commissioned stories inspired by the station and the people who use it. The stories explored the day-to-day life of the station - the platforms, the workers, the journeys, the waiting, the encounters, the thrill, the loneliness, the joy - expressing the peculiar, unique qualities of this marginal, in-between world, where anything can happen and often does.
Audiences were guided to vantage points to pick out the writers passing through the crowd and interacting with members of the public, unaware a performance was taking place. The writers’ microphones were linked to the audience via headsets using wireless technology, while a musician sampled sounds from the station and played them live into the audience’s headsets between and underneath the words.
“Absolutely knocked out by the @stationstories performance in Piccadilly Station today. Spellbinding and inspiring. 2 more days to see it. Go!!”
Guy Garvey via Twitter
Read more reviews of Station Stories here.
See photos from Station Stories here.
Visit the official Station Stories website here.
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From platform to platform, café to café and shop to shop, six writers took an audience on a creative trip of Piccadilly Station, reading specially commissioned stories inspired by the station and the people who use it. The stories explored the day-to-day life of the station - the platforms, the workers, the journeys, the waiting, the encounters, the thrill, the loneliness, the joy - expressing the peculiar, unique qualities of this marginal, in-between world, where anything can happen and often does.
Audiences were guided to vantage points to pick out the writers passing through the crowd and interacting with members of the public, unaware a performance was taking place. The writers’ microphones were linked to the audience via headsets using wireless technology, while a musician sampled sounds from the station and played them live into the audience’s headsets between and underneath the words.
“Absolutely knocked out by the @stationstories performance in Piccadilly Station today. Spellbinding and inspiring. 2 more days to see it. Go!!”
Guy Garvey via Twitter
Read more reviews of Station Stories here.
See photos from Station Stories here.
Visit the official Station Stories website here.
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