Lizzie Clachan and David Rosenberg of Shunt Theatre Collective: A Door into Another World — the Audience and Hybridity

Abstract

Lizzie Clachan: Our collaboration is between ten very different people and that diversity, it’s the difference that makes the often jarring and bizarre work. You would find it very difficult to do as one person, or even two or three. Sometimes we have little digs and laugh at what each other is interested in. Maybe someone will have an obsession which everyone will roll their eyes at every now and again but it is that little obsession that one person has which keeps things different and odd. We all have our themes because we all come from very different backgrounds, different disciplines so everyone brings with them an ‘I need to shoe-horn this in somehow’, which is good. People can argue their passions into our shows and that’s what makes it interesting.