Just to say, your workshop with the students has achieved a ‘legendary’ status
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Fairground have been nominated for two Off West End Theatre awards (OFFIES). Continue Reading →
A great workshops with UCLU Drama Society in preparation for their production of 1984. One of our Free Workshop offers.
The Session was all about creating a performance ensemble, developing complicity, awareness and commitment to performance. We explored number of techniques and ideas including musicality, rhythm, flying, dynamics, and physical articulation all with the drive to create dynamic theatrical bodies, relationships and images.
What a brilliant speech and concept.
So our Summer School is now complete and what a week it was! so many brilliant young performers. Great film by Nick Sutton with stills photography by Josie Pearson. Such a great collaboration between Fairground, Kompany Malakhi, Kingswood, and Tobacco Factory. Check out more of the images here
Origins of the Swan Lake story…
The day is so warm, and the sun’s rays so scorching, that the water in the pond looks very cool and inviting…
This is a clip of choreographic rehearsals for a show Tid created with young people.
Choreography by Tid
This video was not created by Fairground. It is here to serve as inspiration for all and specifically those interested in the Swan Lake Summer School
refreshing, freewheeling, the production bursts out of the confines of realism to entertain us with music and comedy, but also to move us
— The Sunday Times
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now
Tid and Peter talk about music, theatre, and making work with young people, this was filmed while Tid was Director of Bristol Old Vic Young Company, the film was shot and edited by Tim Crawley.
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A surprisingly perfect day. Continue Reading →
Wow look at our lovely little play, it’s nice to actually have something to put on the shelf.
Chris trained at Royal Holloway, University of London, The Cheshire School of Art and Design, and The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Continue Reading →
“it is always the popular theatre that saves the day. Through the ages it has taken many forms, and there is only one factor that they all have in common – a roughness. Salt, sweat, noise, smell…
— Peter Brook | The Empty Space
Emily is a theatre practitioner specialising in physical, collaborative and devised performance. Continue Reading →
All stories to which we connect are, in some way, about us: about our relationships, our needs and desires, the pains and pleasures of being human. Continue Reading →
“The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion.
He hardly knows which is which.
He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving other to decide whether he is working or playing.
To him he’s always doing both.”
— James Michener
Circus has inspired everything – it is one of the most beautiful things. Continue Reading →
Liz – Who are you?
Jack – I’m Jack. Who are you?
Liz – I’m the girl you leave behind.
Trained at The Oxford School of Drama. Continue Reading →
Theatre Bristol | Fairground discuss devising with a writer.
After a short hiatus, Fairground are set to return with their take on the story of history’s most infamous outlaw couple, Bonnie and Clyde. Since it was founded in 2007, the company has experimented with a blend of text, music and choreography Continue Reading →
“In life I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists”
— Jacques Lecoq
When are children made?
In happy places?
In times of joy?
Sometimes…
