Back to Back Theatre’s idiosyncratic voice circumnavigates the universe. The company’s contemporary work defies convention, challenges logic and questions the imperative to be ‘normal’.
Back to Back Theatre / Artistic director biography
Bruce Gladwin specialises in the development of adventurous theatrical work, working as director, designer and writer. Gladwin created Mental, Dog Farm, Soft and small metal objects. He collaborated with Rosemary Myers at Arena Theatre Company to develop the Anthropop trilogy (Autopsy, Mass and Panacea), which was recognised for its integration of technology and theatre. In 1999, the trilogy, along with Oblong, garnered the prestigious ASSITEJ International Honorary President's Award for inspiring, provocative and experimental ways of expressing a new theatrical language.
Company information / http://www.backtobacktheatre.com
Back to Back was formed in 1987, born out of a community arts project that included disability service providers, youth support and performing arts training. The multi-award winning company has since created over 30 original works for theatre. small metal objects, the company’s most recent work, premiered to critical and audience acclaim, and has gone on to tour through Europe, the UK and the US to similar acclaim. small metal objects won the ZKB Acknowledgment Prize for extraordinary artistic achievement at the 2007 Zuercher Theater Spektakel.
