AlternativeTomorrows
Alternative Minds, Alternative Worlds
alternativeTheatre
What is alternativeTheatre . . .
AlternativeTheatre seeks to engage and move people through
its unconventional approach to theatre.
Our goal is to produce theatre that pulsates with both passion and authenticity,
delving into the depths of the human condition.
"Good Theatre, we believe, can only be delivered if we first listen,
and listen very hard at that, to the beat that is inherent
in the writing;
for it is this pulse that drives the rest of the work
- acting, direction, design, music, scenery,
in fact, everything we do.
It is the energy that flows from this that the audience
should feel, for touching the hearts and minds of
the audience is what it's all about."
Through our AlternativeTheatre work, we help people enrich their own lives
through developing self-understanding and self-awareness.
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To find out more about AlternativeShakespeare,
click here to go to the website
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How alternativeTheatre
Our work on Shakespeare over the last 20-plus years reveals
a very take on Shakespeare's work and how
it can help us better move forward:
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- a new body of work has been created that helps keep his legacy alive
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- alternative insights into Shakespeare's role as a major part of
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the continuum of knowledge over the centuries
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- helping us all to take Shakespeare forward into our tomorrows
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- opening up a vast repository of material to help us understand how humankind has to develop
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We believe a totally new rethink to Shakespeare is needed;
for us, that approach is alternativeShakespeare.
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Why alternativeTheatre. . .
Theatre” is a great label for what we do.
But with all labels come restrictions
and limitations, and boxes in which
we feel we may be put.
So let us explain. Yes, we have created theatre
productions and performed plays in theatres
across the country, and we continue to do
work that we would class as “theatre”.
But we believe that theatre is so much more than
just a building. Theatre is a feeling; theatre is
an exploration of what makes us tick…
It is great storytelling; it is inherently human.
People have been creating theatre for
far longer than theatre has been a word,
let alone a concept.
We wish that we could replace the word “theatre” with something more fitting -
something that doesn’t emphasize the conventional actor/writer/director, performers/audience/theatre structures that have ruled the arts
for so many centuries. We could use “creativity”, perhaps,
but we don’t think that this encompasses everything
that theatre means, everything that theatre is.
So for now, we’ll stick with “theatre”, and call ourselves AlternativeTheatre, whilst
we continue to look for and explore new and different ways to operate.
We’ve worked for over 20 years on AlternativeTheatre –
an alternative approach to theatre, or even an alternative
to traditional theatre itself – and we’ll continue
to adapt, create, and develop as the world
continues to change around us.