Six artists have each designed the front and inside of a card.
In collaboration with six renowned UK theatre makers, New Perspectives are producing six limited edition Christmas cards, each reimagining traditional yuletide messages. The artists have each designed the front and inside of a card to create a handheld piece of artwork which can be kept as a curio or given as a gift. The cards can be bought singly, as a pack of three or a pack of six.
The artists creating the cards are:
Artistic Director Jack McNamara said "At the end of an eventful but also strangely eventless year, we felt that people really needed a gift this Christmas. Something they could hold, share and spend proper time with. And so we asked six truly adventurous theatre makers to reinvent the age old Christmas Card, and turn it into a novel dramatic experience for audiences across the country. We are so thrilled and inspired to be able to share these six brand new pieces with people throughout the winter season. Each of these artists are utterly unique and know exactly how to make work against all expectations and all odds. This is our version of a 'Christmas show', full of intimacy, invention and surprise."
New Perspectives have also announced another opportunity to experience Stay Safe, the spine-chilling drama via WhatsApp and a Christmas extension of their postcard drama Love From Cleethorpes, a drama told through a series of postcards, both as a result of popular demand. Love From Cleethorpes has recently been 'toured' to 25 countries worldwide. These projects are the latest from the company's innovation in playing with form, which also include their live Zoom of Lars von Trier's office comedy The Boss of It All with Josie Lawrence, and a 10-part podcast series PlacePrints by David Rudkin.
New Perspectives is an East Midlands based company with over 40 years experience of touring high-quality productions to venues of all sizes across the UK, from mid-scale theatres to village halls. With a strong rural core, they create productions to fit spaces of any size in order to bring new work that is unexpected and thought-provoking to a wide range of audiences. Since 2012, New Perspectives has been led by Artistic Director Jack McNamara whose productions include The Boss of It All by Lars von Trier (Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh and Soho Theatre), The Lovesong of Alfred J Hitchcock by David Rudkin (Brits Off Broadway, New York and UK tour), Darkness, Darkness (Nottingham Playhouse co-production) and the Stage Award winning The Fishermen by Gbolohan Obisesan (Trafalgar Studios, Assembly George Square Studios and UK Tour). Their podcast series PlacePrints is currently available, and their postcard drama Love From Cleethorpes is available again at Christmas.
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