How other people live is fascinating, and there are few better insights into what makes them tick than getting a look inside their homes. Where some might live in a four-walled fortress, others might prefer an open-plan outlook on the big bad world outside. Such notions of personal space formed one of the starting points for Moving in Houses, a new cross-artform piece of work devised and created by the experimentally inclined Theatre Arts Group, which plays for three nights in Tramway this week alongside an installation. Using sound, light, movement and above all else a sculptural form of architecture, Moving in Houses aims to explore the very notion of how we both define and interact with the immediate space around us. “We're working with four structures,” Theatre Arts Group writer/director Rachel Clive explains, “and the performers are relating to each of these structures, which represent different types of housing. One represents a terraced house, another a semi-d
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