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Preview: Latitude Festival
By Admin | In Performance
17th – 20th July 2008, Suffolk
The ground-breaking Latitude Festival returns to the sunrise coast in Suffolk for its incredible third year. Nestled in the historic and beautiful surroundings of Henham Park Estate, Southwold, organisers Festival Republic are promising another truly spectacular event.
Teaming up with London’s Arcola Theatre, Latitude are working towards a greener festival. With environmental issues at its core, Latitude are pleased to announce that this year’s Theatre Arena will be a completely fuel cell powered stage. Arcola will be providing state of the art low energy lighting including LED and a Hydrogen Fuel Cell to power the stage. The fuel cell operates almost silently and will produce nothing but electricity and clean water.
This ground-breaking advancement in technology will bring down the carbon footprint of the festival and lessen the event’s impact on its immediate surroundings and the world’s climate as a whole.
The Arcola Theatre is a converted factory in East London and one of the UK’s leading independent venues. This partnership with Latitude is part of Arcola’s extensive sustainability programme – Arcola Energy – which, along with partners in the Mayor of London’s Greening London Theatres initiative, is driving the eco-culture frontier.
Over the weekend Theatre Arenaat Latitude is a buzzing hotbed of creativity and inspiration, hosting a wealth of bespoke productions and performances exclusive to the festival. Some of the biggest names in contemporary, physical, classical, performance and local theatre, including The Royal Court, the Bush Theatre, nabokov, and Paines Plough, are coming to the Theatre Arena.
It really has something for everyone; provoking thought, emotions, laughs and entertainment all weekend long. As well as powering the arena The Arcola Theatre will present a series of short but perfectly formed writer-led plays The Miniaturists. Each piece is no longer than 15 minutes, and the dizzying mix makes every event as various and unpredictable as life itself.
Latitude and Arcola will be supported by the London Hydrogen Partnership, Thomas Engineering & ETC.
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Comment #1 | Posted by Harvey
Set in a beautiful landscape made up of grassland, woodland and lakes, Latitude seemed like Glastonbury before it turned it's main stages into a live vehicle for Radio 1's playlist. With a mixture of eclectic music, great comedy and theatre, Latitude 2008 was a refreshing change from what other festivals have to offer. Highlights were Sigur Ros, Grinderman, the Breeders, Patrick Watson,Rich Hall, Andrew Lawrence, Marcus Brigstock, Mark Steel....could go on. Camping and Toilets were much better and cleaner than any festival I've been to, and I've been to a fair few over the years. People have accused it of being a middle class festival but if that means not getting robbed, or having people chuck up on your tent in the night, then I'm happy with that. Furthermore, with its winding lit up pathways through the woods leading to loads of smaller events, the lake stage, the fantastic lighting about the place, its a real visual treat at night for those who just want to mill about at night. Great place to take ya kids too!
Comment #2 | Posted by Steve Petter
This was my second year at Latitude. The lineups were stronger than last year, funded no doubt by the huge increase in ticket numbers. But why do the organisers insist on positioning the Comedy tent so that the Lake and Obelisk stages can drown out the performances? Aside from moving the Comedy tent, I'd also ask the organisers not to increase the numbers for next year and to ban anyone with a Home Counties accent from attending.
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