A seated person in a red curtain-lined room bows forward while a large dramatic shadow falls behind.

The Ditch, Shoreditch Town Hall2023

Not Belonging

The Production

Not Belonging was a 2023 site-specific performance created by students on Mountview’s MA Site-Specific Theatre Practice course and staged in The Ditch at Shoreditch Town Hall. The work reflects the course’s focus on devised, location-responsive performance shaped by the history, atmosphere and architecture of a chosen site.

50 photographs in the curated edit

Commissioned by: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Photography: Steve Gregson

Three people sit or lie on hospital beds in a stark white ward with blue carpet and backlit curtains.

A man in a pink shirt throws his arms wide between hospital beds as two others stand nearby.

A woman in a pale jacket stands tensely in a narrow wooden doorway.

An empty blue-lit laboratory is arranged with benches, bottles and equipment.

A woman in a pale robe sits at a blue laboratory bench, studying a small object in her hand.

Two figures grapple in silhouette between empty beds against a bright window.

A wide ruined room with peeling walls, green doors, temporary lights and a patient-gowned figure in the doorway.

A battered room with peeling walls, a green door and hanging paper fragments is lit by a floor spotlight.

A red-haired woman in dark clothing stands beside vertical blinds, side-lit in a quiet room.

Three people sit around a round table under a single pendant light in a dark grey room.

A costumed performer leans over a brightly lit worktable beside an industrial staircase, with another person visible above on the stairs.

A lone figure climbs a metal staircase, silhouetted against bright windows.

Several figures stand spaced through a site-specific room and corridor flooded with red light.

A suited man speaks into a wall telephone beneath an out of order sign.

A woman sits on a bed beside a circular mirror that reflects a man's face.

A hooded ensemble stands together in a bright corridor, their dark cloaks forming a compact group.

A lone woman in dark clothing stands beside a tall window as strong light falls across the floor.

Three people move energetically through a hospital ward while a person in green scrubs watches.

Two people sit opposite each other in a small yellow-lit room with a lamp glowing between them.

A patient-gowned figure stands on a staircase beneath a pointed arch, lit by daylight from above.

Figures sit and kneel in a red-lit room facing a projection and a large shadow on the wall.

A group sits around a round table in a grey room while others stand watching near the doorway.

A woman in a white robe clutches a doorframe and looks out from warm corridor light.

Translucent draped shapes stand by windows in a decaying room, glowing softly in daylight.

A group of hooded and costumed figures moves through a deep red-lit space.

A person in a hospital gown walks alone down a dim corridor beside an IV stand.

A woman in white leans over a round table toward seated people, with a helmet prop on the tabletop.

A patient-gowned person stands behind a large suspended paper structure in a bright, worn room.

Two men in suits confront each other closely in a dim corridor, one gripping the other's collar.

A dark room of seated viewers faces a projected video portrait on a stage screen.

A red-haired person in a hospital gown holds a coil and looks upward beside a cracked wall.

A silhouetted figure kneels among plants and candles in a narrow amber-lit room.

A crouching man in saturated red light casts a huge shadow across the wall behind him.

A person in green scrubs bends over and holds a woman in white on a hospital bed.

A long narrow corridor frames a small distant figure in a hospital gown at the far doorway.

A woman in a pale robe works at a blue-lit laboratory bench surrounded by glassware and equipment.

A man in a suit operates old audio equipment as a sharp beam of light cuts across the wall.

Four people sit in worn armchairs in a damaged room, with one person in a hospital gown holding a coil.

A man on the floor is held by another kneeling man while a third person stands near a hospital bed.

Four people gather at a round table under a pendant light while a woman in white stands behind them.

Two people sit close together on a bed in warm lamplight, one wrapped in white bedding.

A curly-haired man peers around a doorway in a vivid red room.

Three people stand in a large worn hall around a patient-gowned figure, with rope spread across the floor.

A suited person stands in a corridor while another person crawls on the floor around the corner.

A bearded man looks from a yellow-lit bathroom doorway down a narrow corridor.

A patient-gowned figure presses a hand to a wall panel in a corridor while a suited person watches.

A man in a pink shirt leans over a sink while his reflection appears in the bathroom mirror.

Two people in white clothing stand at a bright doorway off a dim corridor.

A large hall holds a seated woman in the foreground and a patient-gowned figure near an arched doorway, with cables across the floor.

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