A new play takes its audience on a promenade performance around Wallington in Northumberland, one of the grandest houses in the north, and one of the first stately homes to be given to the National Trust.
The Scottish Enterprise funding will help create a promenade area around the site, offering views of the city and the river, right on the doorstep of the new £14m railway station also under development.
Bokaer deftly wove in surprises — Chang's vigorous, martial, straight-ahead travelling phrase on the diagonal, Procopio's sudden dive onto Adler-Arieli's legs after a lulling promenade around the perimeter, followed by a confrontational, desperate duet, rich with Pietà images — but the drama seemed mostly to derive from the light bulbs.
Jaffna's fort is still bare, the once-magnificent Dutch church lies in shards at crazy angles, and cows outnumber people on a new promenade around its seaward sides.
Judging by the looks of the lounge, males of the Martini-Manhattan crowd find it four times as easy to get sailing priorities as the females, and very few of the women on my crossing were reminiscent of the attractive ladies who used to make men find a stroll around the promenade deck particularly invigorating.
As we climb aboard this Bauschian soul train of love, we are whirled through a promenade of sketches built around the individual characters of each dancer, especially the women.
This year, the Book festival has hooked up with the theatre company Grid Iron to create Letters Home, a promenade theatre production in and around Charlotte Square Gardens with pieces written by four writers: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Kei Miller, Kamila Shamsie and Christos Tsiolkas.
It will be staged on the top floor of a building called The Hub, in the media quarter of Glasgow, with a promenade performance for audiences of around 70. "Because of what newspapers are, we wanted to respond immediately to what we were feeling and what people were telling us," said Featherstone.
The Avenue Balboa area now has a promenade, park and activity centre, attracting residents from around the city on sunny days.
Some popular Copenhagen neighborhoods are Frederiksberg and the historic city center, along with Osterbro and the areas around Langelinie, a complex that includes a pier, a promenade and a park in the city center.
