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.

"I wanted to know more about how Wildworks made theatre, how you acheived that quality of storytelling, and how you answered the needs of the audience so creatively...... the outcome was honest and beautiful.."Alice Tatton- Brown

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 work 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.