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FILTER THEATRE / Image: Twelfth Night / Photographer: Tristram Kenton

Image: Twelfth Night
Photographer: Tristram Kenton

FILTER THEATRE

Classics|Live music|Mixed-media

SIZE OF COMPANY
8–10 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to large

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Directors
Oliver Dimsdale
Ferdy Roberts
Tim Philips
Producer
Schtanhaus

ARTISTIC POLICY
Filter Theatre brings together actors, musicians, technicians, designers, writers, and directors to create both new works of original theatre and thrilling incarnations of existing texts. Filter’s shows create an on-stage fusion of live and recorded music and sound, naturalistic and stylised physical movement, and video images. The live chemistry between these elements is a vital aspect of the company’s work.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Filter’s anarchic take on Shakespeare’s melancholic comedy blows like a blast of revivifying air…it’s fresh, fast and very funny.
The Times (Twelfth Night)
Work that dazzles the eye, enchants the ear, and stimulates both the heart and mind.
Daily Telegraph (Water)
Filter’s sheer boldness of invention and its ground-breaking use of sound makes it a company to watch.
Evening Standard (Faster)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Twelfth Night
An inventive re-working of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedy, using live music and a playful performance style to create an exciting production more like a gig than theatre. Produced in association with RSC.
75 mins, no interval, 8 on stage, 10 on the road
Water
A Filter and Lyric Hammersmith co-production. Water intercuts between powerful individual stories exploring man’s desire to push himself to the limits in an increasingly unstable world of climate change.
90 mins, no interval, 5 on stage, 8 on the road

WRAP-AROUND
Pre and post-show discussions. Workshops available on devising theatre, use of interactive sound in performance, and innovative approaches to classic text. Suitable for young people aged 11+, and young professionals.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 Germany, Netherlands: Twelfth Night
2004 Germany, USA: Faster

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Twelfth Night – Throughout 2009 and 2010
Water – Throughout 2009 and 2010