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THEATRE AND LANDSCAPE led by Bella Stewart and Richard
Spaul
Residential courses exploring Environmental Theatre.
Since 2002, in situ: has been doing Theatre and Landscape residencies,
working in Norfolk, Suffolk and North Wales, offering participants
a chance to explore Environmental Theatre and in situ:'s unique
approach to it. This year we will in situ: will be offering two
residencies - a weekend course, based at Toad Hall in Suffolk, taking
place at the beginning of May;and a week-long residency in East
Devon, taking place in September and based at the magnificent Sheafhayne
Manor.
We will be visiting woods, churches, beaches, castles, towns, islands,and
creating collaborative performances out of that encounter.
The work will not be confined to 'acting' in any restricted sense.
There will also be opportunities for writing, group-devising, movement
and voice work, the creation of installations and work with objects.
Rather than teaching any particular discipline or technique, we
see ourselves more as bringing out the artist in people and providing
structures and stimuli to allow people's artistic powers to develop.
Previous performing (or any other kind of) experience is not necessary,
but a willingness to plunge whole-heartedly into collaborative work
is of course essential. The course will appeal to artists of any
level of experience and in any medium (dancers, performance artists,
musicians, painters, actors,singers) and to anyone who enjoys doing
or would like to do collaborative and creative work.
Theatre & Landscape II: Time and Tides
Dates: Friday September 12 - Friday September 19, 2008
Location: Sheafhayne Manor, nr. Yarcombe, East Devon
Cost: £480 per participant (12 -16 participants)
Contact us for more
details and to book a place
Sheafhayne Manor is a beautiful Tudor Mansion, with large garden
and grounds, home of Sir Francis Drake,and described by The Sunday
Times as 'a full-sized game of Cluedo.' It's an environment in itself
and will supply all our theatre-creating needs, but we'll also be
visiting such sites as Lyme Regis (Jane Austen's 'Persuasion', John
Fowles' 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', fossils, geology and many
other stimuli), the famous landslip known as the Undercliff and
the spectacular Jurassic Coast. A week of stimulating and collaborative
theatre-making will culminate in a multi-focal performance throughout
the house and garden.
To find out more about Sheafhayne, visit www.helpfulholidays.com
The cost includes accommodation, all food and drink, all travel,
entrance fees and materials used during the course. It does not
include travel to and from the accommodation itself. We will be
self-catering and participants will be expected to help out with
light domestic duties.
Theatre & Landscape I: The Haunted
Landscape
Dates: Friday May 2 - Monday May 5, 2008
Location: Toad Hall, nr. Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Cost: £225 per participant (maximum 8 participants)
Contact us to be kept
up to date about the 2008 workshop
Toad Hall, nr. Woodbridge, Suffolk, a lovely Tudor house, with
a characterful interior and large, tranquil garden, is the ideal
base for a weekend exploring the remarkable Suffolk landscape.
It's a haunted landscape, haunted by fears of invasion from across
the sea, from the evocative Anglo-Saxon burial site at Sutton Hoo
to the eerie Cold War installations of Orford Ness.
There are literary hauntings too - Old Felixstowe is the setting
for M.R. James' chilling ghost story ' O Whistle and I'll come to
you, my lad' and Aldeburgh , the site for Benjamin Britten's 'Peter
Grimes'.
And much else besides.
in situ: takes these fascinating texts, stimuli and sites and,
with its own unique brand of theatrical alchemy, turns them into
memorable environmental theatre.
The cost includes accommodation, all food and drink, all travel,
entrance fees and materials used during the course. It does not
include travel to and from the accommodation itself. We will be
self-catering and participants will be expected to help out with
light domestic duties. |
