Previous Projects

The Girl Who Went Out Into the Cold...

This piece began life as an improvised story recorded by dictaphone in January 2007 and almost became a one woman show. However, a year later it was performed by the three founding members of the company in The Banham Theatre, University of Leeds. In the interim we worked and gained advice from a wide range of designers and theatre practitioners.

In February 2007 the company invited two male actors to join the cast. The largely devised script was re-written and edited and the second version was performed at The Carriageworks in Leeds in April 2008.

The Girl Who Went Out Into the Cold... is a macabre fairytale cum female-rights-of-passage spectacle. It combined elements of physical theatre with poetic language, puppetry, music and symbolic stage design. It focussed firmly on the experiences of a young girl who leaves home a frustrated teenager and returns home older and wiser. Despite her traumatic experiences and the ordeal of facing her parents after 'messing up', the piece ends with a dance of celebration - a realisation that all has not been lost.

Cast and Associate Artists

One Woman Shows:

Kaleidoscope Morning was devised in May 2007 and was performed at Leeds Workshop Theatre and Headingley Community Theatre in June/July 2007. It explored how a girl/woman's identity can be shaped and influenced by the men in her life, from her grandfather onwards, and presented classic female archetypes of the witch, widow and nature goddess amongst more earthy, authentic personas.   Cast and Associate Artists Woman: Gemma Bolwell Lighting Support: Richard Blanco Outside eye/technical operator: Joanne Hartley

Canvas

Canvas was first created as the practical element of a Performance Art Module in a Theatre-Making MA, May 2006. It was later developed and performed at The Carriageworks as part of Ladyfest Leeds, March 2007. The piece is largely movement-based and works on the metaphor that a duvet cover is a woman's life, in which creases and spillages leave marks that are impossible to erase. It also explores issues of female appearance and identity.