{"id":1216,"date":"2013-06-23T11:21:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T10:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2022-11-12T21:14:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T20:14:27","slug":"confessions-of-a-justified-sinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/confessions-of-a-justified-sinner\/","title":{"rendered":"confessions of a justified sinner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After eighteen months of preparation <em>Paul Bright&#8217;s Confessions of a Justified Sinner<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.untitledprojects.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Untitled Projects<\/a>, co-produced by National Theatre of Scotland &#8211; my third collaboration with Stewart Laing &#8211; has now opened at Tramway in Glasgow, to a range of encouragingly personal and engaged reactions, and a series of 4 star reviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The work &#8211; taking the form of an archive, exhibition and performed lecture &#8211; explores James Hogg\u2019s cult nineteenth century Scottish novel &#8216;The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner&#8217;, by archiving and reconstructing a possible adaptation of the text, staged as a series of experimental site-specific events across Scotland by unknown director Paul Bright over a four year period leading up to Glasgow&#8217;s City of Culture year in 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are just a handful of snaps from the gallery opening:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/laing\/pbcojs\/gallery01.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner : gallery view #1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/laing\/pbcojs\/gallery02.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner : gallery view #2\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/laing\/pbcojs\/gallery03.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner : gallery view #3\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/laing\/pbcojs\/gallery04.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner : gallery view #4\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Images: Paul Bright&#8217;s Confessions of a Justified Sinner : exhibition views &#8211; Mike Brookes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After eighteen months of preparation Paul Bright&#8217;s Confessions of a Justified Sinner by Untitled Projects, co-produced by National Theatre of Scotland &#8211; my third collaboration with Stewart Laing &#8211; has now opened at Tramway in Glasgow, to a range of encouragingly personal and engaged reactions, and a series of 4 star reviews. The work &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaborations","category-untitled-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}