CVs:
Josh Armstrong (PDF) / http://josharmstrong.eu
Louise Mather (PDF) / http://nomiddlename.co.uk
JOSH ARMSTRONG / LEAD ARTIST
Videos:
SHORELINES (2017) | Director
HUI (2015 / Tour 2017) | Director + Set Designer
These Delicate Things (2014) | Director + Set Designer
The Little Match Girl Passion (2011 / Tour 2014 + 2015) | Director + Designer
Press Quotes:
“beautifully staged and choreographed”
[Taipei Times on HUI, 2015]
“an example of how contemporary classical music can be accessible, experimental and emotionally powerful: the strict and precise choreography of the performers – and the use of evocative costume – lends David Lang’s score a bitter-sweet poignancy”
[The List on Little Match Girl Passion, 2015]
“The Victorian costumes are also pleasing, adding to the spiky sense of theatre the work displays. Josh Armstorng as director and designer added this austere moodiness and crystal like atmosphere to events.” [The Sprout on Little Match Girl Passion, 2015]
“these delicate things is …like dark raw honey drawn with a .001 nib.”
[Steven Anderson, Visual Artist, on these delicate things, 2014]
“a slow-paced visual reverie that catches at the nature of transience even as it insists on being mindful of the moment as it’s lived… this performance reminds us to be living cameras.”
[The Herald on these delicate things, 2014]
“The result is kathartic and utterly transporting.”
[Limelight Magazine on Little Match Girl Passion, 2014]
“a powerful combination of music, movement and song… the installation-like set is impressive, and beautifully lit” [The Scotsman on Red Shoes, 2013]
” the visual and design flair of Red Shoes, along with the energetic live music, is attention-grabbing… Armstrong’s set design has a Brechtian finesse, and the plot becomes a foundation for musical numbers that meditate on the themes.
[The Stage on Red Shoes, 2013]
“drives like an emtional dagger towards the heart, challenging and thrilling as it goes.”
[The Scotsman on Little Match Girl Passion, 2011]
“Armstrong’s real skill is in ratcheting up tension between movement and extreme stillness”
[The Guardian on Little Match Girl Passion, 2011]
“this is truly what brilliant theatre is all about.”
[The Metro on Little Match Girl Passion, 2011]
LOUISE MATHER / NO MIDDLE NAME COLLECTIVE