Take a look at some of our previous plays
Our 2006 play again takes up Brecht’s idea of epic and we found that commedia dell’arte fits very nicely. It is another odyssey (therefore not a traditional commedia story structure), this time to find gold and with it happiness and personal meaning. Edmond Warner, a Daily Telegraph economics correspondent, described it as “a chilling reminder […]
Many people have said that 2005 next play, The Fairy Queen, reminded them of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. Our play, though a quite different story, is similar in three respects. Firstly, it uses four of Shakespeare’s characters, or rather characters which he borrowed from earlier plays and stories, Titania, Oberon, Theseus and Hippolyta, and plays […]
The Odyssey was another Brechtian style epic (with the goddess Athene as narrator) and another journey or rite of passage (this time for the son Telemachus and wife Penelope, who search for the lost father / son, Odysseus, behind the myth and hero), but dealt with as it should in epic anti-heroically. The issues are […]
Written by Pete Talbot fresh back from training with Antonio Fava at the Scuola Internazionale dell’Attore Comico and using ideas from Flaminia Scala’s ‘Scenarios of the Commedia dell’Arte’, this was our first brand new play. The play uses a proto-text with passages marked for allimprovviso (See Talk.) to give the actors freedom to improvise within […]
The Comedy of Errors (1999) Our first tour was in the lovely summer of 1999 with the commedia dell’arte inspired play of twins, mix-up’s and confusions, Shakespeare’s appropriately named under the circumstances ‘Comedy of Errors’. We had a cast of nine, hopelessly low wages and a set that initially took four hours to put up […]
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