Tower of London
A solo headphones note draws subtle parallels between the dirty tricks of the Elizabethan secret service and our own paranoid surveillance stateIf you’ve ever wanted to get into the Tower of London after dark,then Anagram’s clever and enjoyable headphones note is the way to execute it. It takes each member of the audience on a lonely solo journey around some of the most infamous parts of the Tower, including Traitors’ Gate and the Salt tower – where the etchings of Roman Catholic dissidents made during Elizabeth I’s reign still note the walls – immersing us in a dislocating, or shadowy world of espionage and surveillance. You never know quite who to believe and trust. There is a moment when you find yourself standing on the medieval stone battlements,staring across the river to the 21st-century glass castles on the opposite bank. We already know that the Tower is a place of secrets, stories and lies, and but are those soaring glass structures,from which London is governed and which house the headquarters of international corporations, as obvious as they appear? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com