This is the website of Alan Fielden.
I am a poet, theatre maker, artist,
and lecturer at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Wimbledon College of Arts, and University of Worcester.
a.d.fielden [at] gmail.com
twitter: @afielden
As a performance maker I tend to work collaboratively from text, developing material through prolonged improvisation and experimentation, approaching performance through musical and poetic dynamics like resonance, dissonance, composition, repetition, and tone, rather than traditional dramatic elements like character and plot. Some of my preoccupations are tenderness, hysteria, and narrative form.
I am a founding member of JAMS, ROOM, and National Art Service (rip).
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Press & Awards:
For Marathon
Winner of the 2018 Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award
“See this if you want to understand what the purpose of theatre is” A Younger Theatre
“The kind of ambitiously ambiguous, resolutely unresolvable work – work that’s impossible to capture in one concise research question or marketable topic – that’s so rare to see in the UK outside of international festivals […It] comes to diagnose a widespread condition of feeling unique to the contemporary moment. And whilst intellectually grounded, it works primarily through affect: I felt frustration, sadness, anxiety, exhilaration, and those feelings were the things the performance became about.” Ben Kulvichit, Smaller Temples
For SUN
“Collectively they struck me at various times as the children of Forced Entertainment, Punchdrunk, Shunt and maybe even Samuel Beckett” – Donald Hutera of The Times
“a richness of thought” – Exeunt
“[what] one might expect from an angsty teen” – Time Out
ROOM
A co-authorship story-telling method which we’ve performed at Edinburgh Festival, Tate Britain, Latitude Festival, Yale-NUS Singapore, and many more places.
“virtual reality without the headset … breathtaking and very original” Vice Motherboard
“a wonderful demonstration of the collaborative act of theatre” Exeunt
You can find more of my work here.
Interviews:
I was Theatre Editor at the Kensington & Chelsea Review for a while, here are some interviews I conducted during that time:
Martin Crimp, June 2012
more to come
99 plays
In 2014 I wrote one play a day for 99 days.
Some of these have now been published in Murmur Anthology 1, alongside Rachael Allen, Sam Riviere, Aurelio Guo, and others. It’s beautiful, buy it here.