News
Monday, 06 July 2009
Oxford’s own theatre company cleans up river for the ‘greenest’ Twelfth Night ever!
Oxford’s Creation Theatre Company will be performing Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night this summer at the Saïd Business School Amphitheatre 9 July – 5 Sept and most of the set and costumes is to be made from the flotsam and jetsam the actors can pick up along the Thames. Shakespeare’s famous comedy of mistaken identity starts with a shipwreck on an island, and Director, Heather Davies, has therefore decided that in the play the characters will be seen picking up “debris” and using it inventively (as you would have to on a desert island) to make their costumes and props (e.g. a net of ropes could perhaps be made into a cloak). Creation therefore wants to find all the items they need from the natural environment and recycle them for their show.
Oxford’s Creation Theatre Company will be performing Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night this summer at the Saïd Business School Amphitheatre 9 July – 5 Sept and most of the set and costumes is to be made from the flotsam and jetsam the actors can pick up along the Thames. Shakespeare’s famous comedy of mistaken identity starts with a shipwreck on an island, and Director, Heather Davies, has therefore decided that in the play the characters will be seen picking up “debris” and using it inventively (as you would have to on a desert island) to make their costumes and props (e.g. a net of ropes could perhaps be made into a cloak). Creation therefore wants to find all the items they need from the natural environment and recycle them for their show.
Creation are working with a charity called Thames21, London’s leading waterways charity who work with thousands of volunteers each year to make waterways better for everyone. The charity is also instrumental in helping clean-up the Thames before big events like the Boat Race and the Thames Festival. Creation has asked them to put aside for re-use in this production of Twelfth Night any interesting items they find that have been thrown in the river. Members of Creation have also been to Avonmouth beach to find other discarded materials that can be reused in the show and are visiting a local building site to collect unwanted timber to use in their set. Afterwards the plan is to pass on all these items from the show to others who may have use for them so they can be recycled yet again - making this production possibly the ‘greenest’ Twelfth Night ever!.
Booking for Twelfth Night is now open - call the Box Office on 01865 766266,
or buy tickets online at http://www.creationtheatre.co.uk.
For further info, images or Creation’s new ‘Theatre Made in Oxford’ logo contact
Cheryl Pearce 01865 761393 or Judith Cheston 01608 661198
Website: http://www.creationtheatre.co.uk
Editor’s note
Twelfth Night
At Saïd Business School Amphitheatre
9 July – 5 Sept 2009
Director Heather Davies
Press night Tuesday 14 July at 7.30pm
