Don't Look Back

Venues 2005 / 2006

New Register House, Edinburgh
Presented as part of the British Council Edinburgh Showcase at the current Scottish registry for Births, Marriages and Deaths, we explored the piece mainly through the striking multi-tiered ironwork dome that still houses unique records of people of Scotland from centuries past. The piece is dedicated to the builiding, to the staff who devote themselves to the preservation of these records, and the registered occupants of those records. With support from Arts Council England, Arts & Business, British Council and Made in Brighton ltd.

Grad Kodeljevo, Ljubljana, Slovenia
A highly successful, sell-out re-creation of the piece, that wound its way through the upper floors of an 18th century mansion house and chapel near the centre of Ljubljana. We are grateful to the Exodus Festival and the British Council for supporting the production with particular thanks to the Exodus production team and all local performers involved in the production.

"Individual scenes are built inventively and attract the spectator with a strong emotional charge, which they entice out of the spectator as well. The point of the setting hides in the interesting twist: A certain kind of an objective observation of the mourners at a certain point overturns into awareness that it is precisely the spectator for whom everything is intended. The spectator is the person locked in the coffin and carried to final rest….beautiful."
Delo Clanek (Slovenian daily)

"Exodus strike gold with an English group called dreamthinkspeak."
Maldina Clanek (Slovenian weekly)