Back in September, Gareth spent five intensive weeks with the fourteen MA Acting students at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Leading their Storytelling Module, he helped the actors explore a range of ideas around play, ensemble, spontaneity and the best ways to serve an audience. The later stages of the module saw the actors test [...]
London, 1666. A fire breaks out in Thomas Farriner’s bake house in Pudding Lane. Four days later, the whole city has been consumed by flames. To commemorate 350 years since the Great Fire of London, Artichoke curated a festival of arts and ideas that brought the Square Mile and beyond to life with a series [...]
Back in July, we spent nine glorious days working with Terrapin Puppet Theatre, who were all the way over from Tasmania to be part of the On The Edge Festival. The World Festival of Theatre for Young Audiences was taking place in Birmingham, and Terrapin was flying the flag for Australia with I Think I [...]
