SF1 Sun 29 July – Sat 4 August
8 - 12 yrs Team prep onsite arriving Fri 27 July
SF2 Tue 7 – Tue 14 August
12 - 17 yrs Team prep onsite arriving Sun 5 August
Stage-Fright explores faith and spirituality through the arts - especially theatre. We have worked in partnership with churches from a wide range of denominations. Our members in Wokingham alone come from at least nine different churches - or from no church at all. We are not a church-based theatre company. We are a theatre company exploring what it means to be a church.
At the heart of Stage-Fright is the idea of using theatre to connect people in a community. We play and perform in various churches, schools, community centres, at festivals, on the streets and even once in a theatre! The Good Friday Passion Play in Wokingham brings all kinds of people together in the Market Place.
To provide opportunities for individuals and groups to creatively explore life experiences, involvement in community, ethics, morality, personal, social and spiritual health and wholeness.
Stage-Fright
: creative people coming together
Since 2000, hundreds of people have joined Stage-Fright projects and developed their creative potential through groupwork. We are always keen to hear from people who would like to join or extend what we do, through clubs for children and young people, local community projects or by joining our team of summer volunteers. Stage-Fright facilitators nurture participants own ideas, rather than imposing their own.
Staff opportunities
We are always interested to hear from people with some experience or skill in theatre.
We employ theatre workshop leaders (hours negotiable):
• to join our current team of 4 paid staff
• to open and run new After School Clubs for Years 4-6 children (adding to our current 4 clubs)
• to work with our 2 established teenage theatre clubs
• to accept paid sessional work in schools
• to work on occasional projects with members of the community of all ages and with churches
Artistic Director
Michael has been using theatre to explore life experiences, values, faith and spirituality in partnership with schools, youth groups, charities and churches since 1997. He studied Theatre Arts at Rose Bruford and is currently working on an MA in Actor Training and Coaching at Central School of Speech and Drama.
"Stage-Fright is at its best when people from different backgrounds bring their own ideas and personal stories to breathe new life into old traditions. I am passionate about collaberative devised theatre because I enjoy the peculiar truths that different people bring to a story."
Office phone 0118 979 0098
Vine House
23 Broad Street
Wokingham
Berks RG40 1AU
Theatre Club
Director
Assistant Theatre
Club Director
Stage-Fright runs 4 after-school theatre clubs for children in years 4, 5 & 6 :
Mondays 3 - 5pm Westende Junior School
Wednesdays 3 - 5pm St Michael's, Sunninghill
Thursdays 3 - 5pm Finchampstead Primary School
Fridays 3 - 5pm Bearwood Primary School
We are planning to offer the same for more schools from September 2012. Contact us if you'd like us to open a club in your school...
This project is part funded by Sonning Deanery and Berkshire Community Fund.
Mary the mother, virgin, icon, teenager, scared, sacred, irreverent, innocent, bitter, loving... all these aspects of Mary are expressed in the thoughts and words of women and girls living today...
The myriad legends and religious traditions associated with Mary have long obscured the young woman from Nazareth more than 2000 years ago. Its impossible for anyone today to know just what she would have been like. But Mary was as real as any woman today. This project is a gathering of monologues - the real thoughts of multiple real Marys. They are deliberately contradictory and paint her in many different lights. Somewhere in between, we hope to catch glimpses of the real Mary...
Inspired by poems about Mary by Nicola Slee, most of the monologues we perform are written by members of the company, aged 7 to 77. Many have never written anything before, nor performed in public. If you are inspired to write something for this project we would love to hear from you (it doesn't have to be complete - disordered thoughts are just as useful and may be incorporated into something bigger). On 26 March 2011, a new version of The Virgin Monologues will be performed at South Hill Park. We hope to add several new voices... perhaps yours? Contact us with a few sentences of your thoughts...
BOOK TICKETS sit
Book tickets for the two performances on
26 March 2011 at South Hill Park here:
Book 3.00pm
Book 8.00pm
We are gathering people and ideas for Wokingham's 4th Good Friday Passion Play. We're looking for local artists to contribute to exhibitions and events throughout Holy Week 1 - 8 April 2012. We're also looking for ordinary people who just want to get involved in telling the story in the Market Place...
