A History of Airports

1983

U Matic Video
Exhibition/performance

Sound, colour, 55 minutes 33 seconds

An interdisciplinary, company devised promenade performance, led by John Downie (writer, performer, project coordinator), with Mike Leggett (video), Richard Storer (computer systems), Startled Insects (sound), Keith Tippett (piano, and musicians), The Playwrights Company & performers including: Pauline Battson, Kit Edwards, Liz Dbecchi, Canoe, Liz Fjelle (design), Kate McNab (actor), Tony Robinson (writer, actor), ACHSmith (writer), Pat van Twest (writer, performer). Funding: The Playwrights Company & Gulbenkian Foundation. Developed and produced at Watershed Media Arts Centre, Bristol, UK.

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