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Souterrain
Photograph Bill Mitchell
wildworks

Devised theatre, Site-specific, Interactive

SIZE OF COMPANY
15–20 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Outdoors, site-specific

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Bill Mitchell

General Manager
Helen Bunt

ARTISTIC POLICY
Wildworks is truly international and the understanding of different languages and cultures is reflected in the work. The company weaves mythic strands out of the sites for which it creates work and from the memories and values of the people who live there. It opens the creative process for people to become actively involved in a number of different ways, including performance. Wildworks uses everything it can to create its work: sun and moonlight, fire, live and recorded music, powerful visual imagery, machinery, poetry, movement, food and emotion. The core team includes theatre makers from France, Sweden, Malta, Spain and the UK.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
'Extraordinarily moving.' The Guardian

'A visual and musical feast.' The Independent

CURRENT PRODUCTION
Souterrain Unique promenade experience, part theatre and part ritual. The audience travels with Orfee into the underworld to find his Eurydice. The company work with local people to create the production, living as part of the community from the research phase to the performances. (101 mins, 20 people on the road)

FUTURE PRODUCTION
New work (title tbc) Bill Mitchell is working on a new site-generic project that will contact people with memories of dockyards, the story of ships, ship builders and others connected to the docks.

WRAP-AROUND ACTIVITY
Wildworks has collaborated with gospel choirs, college bands, local artists, tea dance regulars, cake-makers, abseillers and trail bikers. It brings half the event and trusts the community to supply the other half.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2005 France (Souterrain)
2004 Cyprus (Old Man with Enormous Wings)
2003 Malta (Old Man with Enormous Wings)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Souterrain available summer 2007.