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WILDWORKS Summer School 2007 WILDWORKS believe that working with local makers, performers and musicians is a vital part of the process of making their stunning landscape theatre. We develop a strong and intimate relationship with each site and its community, often more than a year in advance of the actual performance element of a project.
The ‘Wildworkshop’, held very early in each process, is a vital and invigorating element of our journey towards this intimate relationship.
The workshops bind new working groups together, share the ideas and techniques that form the basis of this unique theatre form, and generate a working culture of open-hearted creativity. During each summer school we travel on a creative path that takes each participant deep into themselves and then back out again to explore together the point at which place meets narrative, finding out together what lies at the heart of the work.

“extraordinarily moving”
Lyn Gardner  - The Guardian 06

“Bill Mitchell has created a memorable and exciting theatrical experience”
Jane Hughes - Independent 06

The Wildworkshop at Sterts, Liskeard is done! We spent a week in the beautiful May sunshine (yes really!) out on the moor, exploring around Minions, the Cheesewring and the Gonamena valley. For feedback see below. 

 

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Sterts Summer school 2007 impressions

I wanted to experiment with a theatre form that has interested me for a while and to gain the confidence in applying landscape theatre to my own future projects.  However, I haven’t simply achieved what I wanted to, the residency has energised my creativity, sharpened my senses and reassured me into following my theatrical instincts. Thank you. (Claire Patrick)

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Colchester School 2006 impressions...

…the week went way beyond anything I thought of achieving. It’s made me rediscover methods and techniques which were nearly enough forgotten in a dusky corner of cobwebs in my head…..
I’m actually quite in awe as to how much the residency has turned my perceptions upside down.
Kris Halliday

click here to read more  comments on the Colchester Souterrain Residency  - February 2006>>

Wildworkshop...

The pattern of the week is to work a long day, usually from 10.00am to 9.00pm, with an hours break at lunch and dinner.
We start with very intensive tutor-led input for the first two days, introducing small tasks from day one, gradually building up the level of student responsibility for their own work as the tasks get more advanced through the week.

There is a core team of tutors, each specialising in different areas, (music, making, fire, performance, directing, movement) although each tutor is also able to work across the other specialist areas.
The participants start the week working on personal and individual tasks designed to make them very sensitive to the immediate environment and their emotional response to it.

This works develops into group tasks designed to elicit a narrative response to the geography of the place. The week culminates in a showing of the work to an invited audience. All of the work is designed to get the participants embarked on a journey towards understanding the potentials and possibilities of theatre in the landscape.