SPECIAL EVENT
ACTING plus Q&A with Sophie Fiennes
Join us at 5pm on Sunday 21st June for a screening and post-film Q&A with director Sophie Fiennes, live on stage.
In the summer of 2021, renowned theatre company Cheek By Jowl joined forces with filmmaker Sophie Fiennes to create the first in-depth documentation of the company's unique acting process and philosophy. The end result is a richly detailed and thrilling celebration of the work of Cheek By Jowl's directors, Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod, and their vital method of creating theatre.
Using four key scenes and several soliloquies from Macbeth, Declan and Nick worked with eight actors over two weeks in Twyford Abbey, a derelict mansion on the outskirts of London. Sophie Fiennes operated as a single camera operator with the camera harnessed to her body, offering audiences immersive and privileged access to the company's work.
“Describing an actor’s process is notoriously tricky; Acting instantly soars to the top of the class” - ScreenDaily
We are delighted to welcome Sophie Fiennes for a Q&A immediately after the screening, hosted by Jenny Hall.
Sophie Fiennes is a director and producer known for her collaborations with Slavoj Žižek: The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012); Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2010), a documentary about the artist Anselm Kiefer; and Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (2017).
Jenny Hall is the artistic director of SHAKE Festival, a community company which she founded in 2019, to produce verse-speaking workshops, Shakespeare festivals and plays.