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Teach The Container

You and your students can access a range of resources on The Container.

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This production is particularly useful for teaching and studying Race & Performance, World Theatre and Political and Applied Theatre.

The Container | Production | Clare Bayley

About the production

Following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival, The Container was revived and captured by Digital Theatre live inside a real shipping container outside the Young Vic Theatre. Directed by Tom Wright, the audience consisted of only 28 people, all locked inside the container with the actors.

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On Directing: Tom Wright

Theatre director Tom Wright discusses The Container and the specific issues that he and the company faced in rehearsal and performance.

On Producing: Debra Hauer

Producer Debra Hauer discusses some of the complicated choices involved in staging The Container and the decisions she took on behalf of the production.