Sometimes in life remarkable opportunities come along and you have to pinch yourself. One such time was when I happened to be standing in the pitch dark, in a subtropical jungle under the canopy of strange plants,  in a biome - in a quarry in Cornwall. All around in the darkness I heard bestial howls and screams, lots of screams. Back in the autumn of 2013 I undertook the job of devising, siting and directing a scare experience within the worlds largest indoor rainforest at t

Back to Rehearsals. Phil tends to maintain this pose throughout the entire rehearsal. Whilst attractive it poses some clear obstacles to the process. Phil demonstrates the physicality of the empty space to an as of yet unconvinced Tim. Phil will be using the force in our next production. Its either that or we get stage crew. #Devon #TimMcGill #PhilJohn #Dartington #Arts

How Antarctica: A Play by Aleksandra Mir came to be staged at Dartington Whilst theatre is at my creative centre I have worked for more years than I care to remember in the broadcast video industry. In the course of this I had come to work as a consultant for the Tate Gallery’s Time Based Media Department with the conservators there archiving time based media elements of pieces the Tate has acquired over the years. In November 2015 these two worlds collided when I ended up pr

The idea for this script and for the subsequent play came from exploring the history of the Rotherfold Square in Totnes. Rotherfold roughly translates from an old form of english as - a holding place for horned beasts.  This conjured demonic ideas and imagery, soon put to bed however as I had at that time recently completed an adaptation of Faust and was in no mood for the Devil. I was approached by Jonathan Lee of the Rotherfold Improvement Group about the potential of prese