WELCOME Welcome to the web site of Alan Lyddiard. Latest News... Sangpit Senyor has been selected for the 31st Asian American International Film Festival in New York 10 - 19 July 2008. GYPSY ROMA AND TRAVELLER HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATIONS “Let the Gypsies come and blossom. We miss them. They can help us with irritating our fixed orders. They are what we pretend to be: they are the true Europeans. They do not know any borders.” About... Alan's theatre work was described in The Guardian Newspaper, in a review by Lynn Gardner of his production of "Ballroom of Romance," as follows: "Like so much of director Alan Lyddiard's work, it has a diffuse quality: often, the important things are on the periphery. There are no big statements, only tiny gestures: a woman picking a hair off a man's suit, the men strutting. It takes the lives of ordinary people surviving on the margins and makes them seem special, almost blessed. There is an acuteness about this that is almost frightening, as if the emotion has somehow been distilled: the quickstep turned into a love letter, the foxtrot into a litany of rejection. The piece has a caged grace but it avoids sentimentality. It has no use for tears." His current work in film continues along the same path...
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