Spontaneous emotionally authentic irreverent and sacred physical theatre created in the moment supported by live music, voice and by occasional audience input.

What will you learn at a workshop with Touch and Go Theatre?

You can learn about...

• playfulness
• spontaneity
• storytelling
• using your body to create worlds
• working together in ensemble to create an unfolding journey
• listening to your fellow performers
• developing your intuition as to where the journey wants to take you all
• embodiment
• sensing with peripheral vision and hearing & developing your 6th sense.
• making something out of nothing
• using your own inner emotional maps to create
• use of movement, joyful physicality and lyrical sensitivity
• improvised song and speech
• creating evocative aural landscapes
• using narrative, characterization, archetypes and metaphor
• working with, against or indifferent to emerging stories, rhythms & music.
• using strong physicality and silence as well as sound to evoke emotion and atmosphere.

 

 

 

 

 We seem to have a knack for attracting (without any forward planning) video cameras into our midst on Remembrance Sundays (see below). This is a snippet of play from Sunday (Remembrance) 14th 2010, at Zu Studios. This is a post-workshop piece with a small audience that included several young children. 

(Although we don't advertise our work as being aimed at children, when they are brought to performances we adapt to include their presence.)

 

 

 

Edited footage of a rehearsal, which spookily enough also took place on Remembrance Sunday (2006) (the context) in Glastonbury, UK. The Festival of Fools (now called Touch and Go Theatre) create improvised theatre inspired by the archetype of the Fool.
This extract is not "about" Remembrance Sunday, but may have metaphorical echoes of that context. Our work is ephemeral, and this is it's first capture on video, so ...just a taste of some aspects of our style."