Emily Orley

Found Lunatic by Inquisition, April 2006 (in collaboration with Elinor Brass)

An immersive installation at the Hoxton Distillery,documenting the checkered history of the street, which has been home to poor houses, lunatic asylums, saloon theatres and political dissident groups for centuries.

 

photos© Emily Orley (http://www.orleyandbrass.com/hoxton.html)

Sommar Boken, 2005 (in collaboration with Rajni Shah and Katja Hilevaara)

A six month project culminating in a small publication proposing a touring theatre production inspired by Tove Jansson’s Sommar Boken (The Summer Book). Commissioned by the Farnham Maltings.

  

.photos© Emily Orley (http://www.rajnishah.com/sommar-boken)

Nomadics, January 2005 (in collaboration with the Nomadics group)

A large-scale installation at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London. Created in collaboration with the Nomadics group.

 

photos© Emily Orley  (http://www.nomadic-collaborations.com/nomadictour.html)

Temenos, June 2004

An immersive installation at the Camden People's Theatre, London. 31 wire columns suspended at intervals transformed the theatre studio into a space between worlds, responding to the urban simplicity of the site while at the same time suggesting an alternative space, both disorienting and atmospheric. With an evocative soundscape created with theatre and sound artist Chris Goode, Temenos was directly inspired by the Mesquita in Córdoba (Spain) which was converted from a mosque to a cathedral in the thirteenth century.

   

photos© Emily Orley

Napoleon in Exile, August 2003 (directed by Chris Goode)

 Design for show directed by Chris Goode. Traverse, Edinburgh. Based on Napoleon’s letters from his exile and a true story about an amnesiac trying to find his identity. With Gemma Brockis, Katja Hilevaara Tom Lyall and Greg McLaren.

'There are moments of such intense lyricism, it is like having melting snow dripping down your spine'. Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, 6 August, 2003

Past the Line, Between the Land, March 2003 (directed by Chris Goode)

 

Design for show directed by Chris Goode and devised by Signal to Noise. Charting the territories of bravery and loss, loneliness and paranoia, based in contemporary America. Camden People’s Theatre, London. Part of the Sprint Festival.

The Awkward Position, January 2003 (directed by Rajni Shah)

Original design for a performance devised by Rajni Shah, in collaboration with Nic Conibere.The Place, London.

   
 
 
 
photos © Emily Orley
      

The Beast Within, June 2002

An immersive installation with sound. Viewers walked down a dark grass and fur-lined corridor to come out in a kitchen through a fridge. Final MA show, Wimbledon School of Art.

 

Imaginary Prisons, August 2001

Co-devised, designed and performed in a show with Angel Exit Theatre, a company founded by former Lecoq students in Paris. Directed by Elena Zucker. Performed at the Edinburgh Festival where it was nominated for a Fringe First Award.


'Angel Exit, a new Jacques Lecoq-trained company, is weaving stories and more than a little theatrical magic in this absurdist fable...there is so much vivid theatricality and inventiveness at work here that I am already looking forward to its next show.'  Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, 14 August, 2001


 

 http://www.angelexit.co.uk/productions/imaginaryprisons.html

'I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where. And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time'.

T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton