September 30, 2011 by katie
We’re pleased to be part of Hatch:Fresh in Leicester, which has a great line up of companies performing over an evening.
We’ll be performing Complimentary, which takes place at the bar.
September 9, 2011 by katie
We’ve been lucky enough to be selected to appear at 2011’s First Bite event at mac. The event is produced by China Plate in collaboration with mac and WAC. Its on Saturday 24th September.
We’ll be sharing a tiny nibble of our new project ‘Bandstand’, a locative audio theatre experience.
For more info see the flyer below.
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July 26, 2011 by katie
If you’ll be up in Edinburgh for the festival this August, you’ll have another chance to catch our current show Avon Calling.
We’ll be performing just 3 times on 23rd, 24th & 25th August at 7pm. With just 10 places for each show do book tickets early to avoid disappointment.
June 16, 2011 by katie
We were pleased to receive a 4 Star review for Avon Calling in today’s Birmingham Mail.
“A thought – provoking performance and a lovely evening with friends in the comfort of my own home.”
What more could you ask for, eh?!
We are also really pleased to have SOLD OUT the entire run in collaboration with mac.
May 25, 2011 by katie
Watch our thoroughly spiffing new video trailer for Avon Calling!
Avon Calling is now on sale through mac Birmingham. 9 out of the 10 performances have already been booked, so get in quick to avoid disappointment.
For further info click here, or to go straight to mac’s website page click here.
Ding dong!
May 12, 2011 by katie
We are pleased to announce that our new show Avon Calling is now on sale through mac Birmingham.
For further info click here, or to go straight to mac’s website page click here.
Ding dong!
April 25, 2011 by katie
We’ve had the pleasure of Lucy Ellinson’s company in the devising room for the last couple of days. Its been great to have another creator in the room, and we’ve enjoyed the momentum that can be created by three people taking turns rather than two (takes the pressure off, and feels more like a team effort).
by katie
Here’s an update of what we’ve been exploring as part of the development of our new production – Avon Calling…
We now have funding confirmed from Arts Council England through Grants for the Arts for this project, and are under the wing of mac in Birmingham and rehearsing in their building.
We also had our first session with our mentor Alex Kelly from Third Angel. This was a good provocation for us to develop some bits and bobs to show him, to introduce him to our thoughts and ideas. We got him playing some Avon Party Games, gave him a moisturising hand treatment (he’s a good sport) and filled him in on our ideas around the structure of the audience experience. Alex introduced us to a couple of exercises which we played then, and have modified and played since – which have helped us to access and generate stories.
In the last few weeks we’ve explored conventional story structures, created a kind of ‘wheel of experience’ for the audience, come up with ideas for our central character’s back-story, researched compulsive hoarding and made character notes from this, and moved into exploring writing our own fairy-type stories. We’ve been using an ‘automatic writing’ technique where we write non-stop for 10 minutes on a theme, which helps us not to censor what we produce. In case you weren’t aware, Reese Witherspoon is the international face of Avon, and as a result she features heavily in our tales and fantasies – I mean who wouldn’t aspire to be Reese? She’s stunningly beautiful and yet approachable like the girl next door. Its only a matter of time till you crack too…
March 7, 2011 by katie
After just over a year away from working on the Avon Calling project (due to me being in Bristol producing Theatre Sandbox for 12 months – more about that here) Louise Platt and myself are easing ourselves back into it. Here’s a brief summary about where our thinking is right now.
August 11, 2010 by katie
A new super shiny Annual Report is now available for you to download. Packed with photos and pithy updates from the year just gone. Happy browsing.
Click here to see all previous Annual Reports.
