Menagerie Theatre Company
Menagerie Theatre Company is the leading independent new writing theatre company in the East of England. Based in Cambridge, we have been creating theatre for over sixteen years and have a regional, national and international reputation for the development of first class new writing for the stage. We seek out and support talented writers in order to develop and produce innovative new theatre. As well as touring widely, we run workshops, writer development courses and produce the annual Hotbed Festival in Cambridge.
Hotbed 2017The Hotbed New Writing Festival took place on Saturday July 8th at Cambridge Junction. Featuring commissioned productions inspired by our theme, ‘What country, friends, is this?‘, we had some remarkable work from Steve Waters, Craig Baxter, our cohort of Young Writers, and a reading from a new work by Janice Okoh. To see the full programme click HERE. Forum Theatre – The Great Austerity Debate!This Ideas Stage project involved audiences in burning questions about austerity. The late-2016 tour brought us to a church hall, a community centre, a former miners’ reading room, two universities and a trade union headquarters in different parts of the country. It goes on the road again in March 2018. HERE’s a short film about the project and HERE’s a blog from one of our shows. For full details or go to our Ideas Stage page.
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Community ProjectOur 2017 community project is a collaboration with Abbey People, here in Cambridge. It’s “A Piece of Cake”, a weekly drama workshop for young mums in Abbey. Led by Caroline Rippin, the workshops run from May to December, with performance and participation opportunities at different points along the way. For more information please email Patrick Morris on patrick@menagerie.uk.com Young Writers’ WorkshopsOur young writers are busy writing their drafts for Hotbed, in advance of further mentoring in June, leading up to Hotbed. They’re all writing in response to the question, ’What country, friends, is this?’. The Ideas StageThe Ideas Stage is an initiative from Menagerie to develop creative partnerships with universities. Projects use theatre to explore the scientific, historical, political and cultural ideas which shape our world. More information Contact MenagerieTel: 01223 403361 office@menagerie.uk.comSign up for our newsletterPlease join us on: |
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