in situ: leading the way in environmental theatre

New weekly Learn To Act course/Theatre and Landsape workshops

2011-02-23T20:58:00.001Z

LEARN TO ACT

in situ:’s renowned Learn To Act course returns next month.

We will be running Learn To Act 1 over four consecutive Thursday evenings, from 17 March to 7 April. This will be followed by Learn To Act 2, from 19 May – Thursday 9 June.

There are more details here: http://www.insitutheatre.co.uk/downloads/2011_Learn_to_Act.doc

The course costs £75 (£55 concessions) and as well as cheques, we now accept PayPal through our website: http://www.insitutheatre.co.uk/learntoact.html

We will also be running the weekend-long version of the course later in the year.

THEATRE AND LANDSCAPE

Our weekend and week-long environmental theatre workshops have also just been announced.

A Weekend In Norfolk takes place from Friday 13 May – Monday 16 May and features visits to Ware Hall House and Wells-Next-The-Sea. The cost is £225.

A Week In Dorset takes place from Friday 9 September – Friday 16 September and features a visit to the Isle of Purbeck. The cost is £500.

More details are available here: http://www.insitutheatre.co.uk/downloads/2011_Theatre_and_Landscape.doc

And again we accept PayPal through our website: http://www.insitutheatre.co.uk/environmental.html

We hope to see you soon.

Kind regards,

Richard & Bella

in situ: presents Made On Another Day: 23 - 27 November, 2010

2010-11-07T21:28:00.002Z

Dear friends,

Our new production, "Made On Another Day", opens in three weeks.

An exciting new departure for in situ:, it's a completely new piece devised by the group over a fifteen-month period using new collaborative performance approaches developed during four years of Theatre and Landscape workshops and residencies.

Dates: Tuesday 23 - Saturday 27 November, 2010
Time: 8pm
Tickets: £12 (£10 concessions)
Venue: St. Andrews Hall, Chesterton, Cambridge [Map]

Tickets are on sale now through WeGotTickets.com:

Tuesday 23rd November
Wednesday 24th November
Thursday 25th November
Friday 26th November
Saturday 27th November

We hope to see you there.

Best wishes,

Bella and Richard

Made On Another Day: Monday 22 - Saturday 27 November, 2010

2010-09-07T21:30:00.001+01:00

made on another day is an exciting new departure for in situ:

It's a completely new piece, devised by the group over a fifteen-month period using new collaborative performance approaches developed during four years of Theatre and Landscape workshops and residencies.

Bella Stewart, who directs made on another day, has this to say of in situ:'s new project:

What does it mean to be gone from the world forever?

made on another day starts with this question, an invitation to think about the concept of Extinction.

Extinction, as the slogan goes, is forever. It stands for an irretrievable loss, and this is something we all carry a sense of somewhere; we know that we too will one day not be here.

As humans, we may have a sense of our separateness from the planet, and from those others, non-humans included, with whom we share it. Part of our enquiry in this project has been into our relationship with those others. Early on, we found this, which gave us our title:

Gray whale
Now that we are sending you to The End
That great god
Tell him
That we who follow you invented forgiveness
And forgive nothing
..........
Tell him that we were made
On another day

(extract from William Stanley Merwin's poem, For a Coming Extinction, published in 1967)

We are told that we are living through the Sixth Great Extinction, with whole ecosystems and environments, species of animals, as well as human cultures and languages, disappearing from the planet, some before we can make any record that they ever existed. The speed of this depletion is giddying, fuelled by humanity's own capacity for adaptation, consumption and invention, and by our need for space, food, energy.

This is a frightening thing to try to think about, but we wanted to explore it because it is important to us. We have chosen to do this by means of performance, a set of practices that are intimately bound up with time and physical space, and with bodies and objects. Performance also happens on a very human scale; it's an encounter between people in a specific place, and for a specific length of time. For us, it is a way of looking at something, a means to frame questions, rather than offer answers.

For us, this is a new departure into something we are calling 'dance'; we are focusing on the moving human body. None of us are trained dancers, but as experienced and curious performers we have been able to draw on traditions that we can adapt. One of them is Japanese Butoh, where movement is often slow and intensely concentrated, reflecting the properties of natural elements and materials, and the processes that shape them. Another is what is often called 'post-modern' dance, which focuses on the everyday movements of the body, its qualities of weight, balance and, above all, its immediate presence. The gestures and movements of the ordinary are focused, with the idea of the body performing tasks, taking time to do things.

Our process has involved a series of responses, often starting with individual performers' own contributions, how they have approached certain stimuli and applied to them their own experience, ideas, memories, imagination. Others may then create work in response to this, and so on. What we offer here is a performance that comes from this common ground. While there is no narrative as such, it takes the form of a series of shifting images, passages of movement, text and sound.

Our only intention is that you bring to it your own creative responses, that some or all of it will resonate with you, and offer a space where we can all begin to consider things too big to face on our own.

Bella Stewart
June 2010

in situ: Macbeth by William Shakespeare - opens this week

2010-07-04T14:54:00.001+01:00

King Lear in Wandlebury - last two performances

2010-06-25T13:44:00.007+01:00

Only two nights of King Lear left! We've been blessed with fantastic weather at Wandlebury Country Park all week and it looks set to continue. If you haven't booked a ticket, you may do so here.

Here are three videos we've added to our YouTube channel as a taster.

The journey begins:

Why Wandlebury:

What is the story:

Shakespeare Summer Season: King Lear, Macbeth and Twelfth Night

2010-06-09T15:16:00.002+01:00

Hello everybody,

As part of our 10th Anniversary celebrations, in situ: is reviving its popular summer Shakespeare season from last year.

June 22–26: We start off with King Lear, which takes place in the majestic setting of Wandlebury Country Park, Cambridge. This is a walkaround performance, following the old King through woods, meadows, thickets and ditches as he makes his harrowing journey of loss, destitution and madness. An extraordinary environment for Shakespeare's greatest tragedy - details and tickets.

You can get tickets from www.wegottickets.com (just type "in situ:" in the search box on the site) or check the weather and come out on the night. It's an outdoor walkaround performance, so it's extremely unlikely that you won't be able to get a ticket. Bring a folding chair if you wish, plus umbrella and insect repellant. It is not difficult terrain, but it does involve some walking. Check the route with us if you're unsure. You can bring a picnic, but this is strictly before the show not during! This is not champagne and strawberries Shakespeare. It's experimental, challenging, tragic and extremely exciting!!

July 6-10: Then Bella Stewart and Richard Spaul are doing their two-handed performance of Macbeth, in the unique and mysterious atmosphere of the Leper Chapel. This is not for wimps either – it's a frighteningly intense exploration of violence and its effect on the human soul. Claustrophobic, bloody and unmissable. Unlike some in situ: performances, Macbeth is all indoors and seated throughout. Space is limited, so book in advance or get there early - details and tickets.
July 20-24: Then we're reviving last year's extremely popular production of Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's fascinating comedy of narcissism and class and gender ambiguity. Mirrors abound in this world of unreliable appearances – come and enjoy a wealth of fabulous performances from in situ's talented ensemble, interspersed with the songs of Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Noel Coward and others. Twelfth Night is a feast for the eye, the ear and the intellect. 'If music be the food of love, play on!' - details and tickets.

Tickets: bookings are through www.wegottickets.com this year. No actual tickets will be mailed out, instead you need to print out the booking confirmation and bring it with you. Our front of house staff will then check your booking against our master list. If you do not have a credit card or prefer not to use it on-line, please call us on 01223 211451.

Hope to see you there.

Richard and Bella

For more details of these performances and all other in situ: events, you can visit our website or call us on 01223 211451

Theatre and Landscape and Learn To Act 2010

2010-04-19T15:09:00.003+01:00

Dear friends,

Thanks to those of you who came along to make "The Cherry Orchard" such a great success. We are now looking forward to a busy spring and summer programme which gets underway next month.

Theatre and Landscape and Learn To Act

We've three spaces left both on "Secrets and Hiding Places" (May 7 - 10) and "The Mythic Landscape" (September 11 - 18). So if you want to snap up any of the remaining places, please get in touch soon because they're going fast. Full details are available in the document titled "2010 - Theatre And Landscape.doc" here.

Coming up in May are two Learn to Act courses, a Beginners and an Advanced, so if you've never tried it before and would like to, please get back to us or pass the information on to anyone you think may be interested.

There's a Learn to Act 1 on May 15 & 16 and a Learn to Act 2 on May 22 & 23. There are plenty of spaces on both at the moment. Details in the document titled "2010 - Learn to Act.doc" here.

Lastly, tickets are now on sale for this summer's performances. Simply search for "in situ" at http://www.wegottickets.com/

For details of all in situ:'s activities, please visit our website.

All the best,

Richard Spaul
in situ:

Third Cherry Orchard clip now on YouTube

2010-03-12T22:41:00.001Z

A weekend of rehearsals and a dress rehearsal on Monday left..!

Second Cherry Orchard clip now uploaded

2010-03-08T22:51:00.000Z

The Cherry Orchard - video preview

2010-03-05T18:07:00.002Z

Just over a week until The Cherry Orchard opens - here's a short clip of the performance:

in situ: The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

2010-03-02T16:56:00.008Z

Dear friends,

You are invited to "The Cherry Orchard Project", a performance by in situ:, based on, in and around the text of "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov.

Dates: Tuesday March 16 – Saturday March 20
Time: 8pm
Venue: The House (South Cambridge; details of the location and directions are
supplied on booking)
Tickets: £12/£10 (concessions)

First performed in March, 2006, this revival marks the beginning of in situ:'s Tenth Birthday celebrations.

One of the most famous and acclaimed plays of all time, The Cherry Orchard was Anton Chekhov's last play, first performed shortly before his death in 1904. It describes the collapse of an aristocratic family, whose way of life is destroyed by forces they don't understand and are powerless to resist – forces of social and political change that would soon sweep away the old order in its entirety.

The Cherry Orchard Project is an invitation-only performance and you will need to join our mailing-list to apply for tickets. You are welcome to bring friends with you. If you know anybody who would like to attend but is unable to accompany you, they will need to join our mailing-list and we will send them an invitation. Anybody who wishes to see the performance may do so,
but tickets are limited and for legal and security reasons, we can't sell tickets over the phone.

Hope to see you there.

For further information, to check ticket availability, or to find out about in
situ:'s wide range of workshops, residencies and performances, you can ring us on: 01223 211451, email us or visit our website.

Best wishes,

Richard Spaul/Bella Stewart

in situ: Macbeth - opens this week

2009-10-14T23:35:00.000+01:00

Hello Everyone,

Hope you've all had a good summer. This is to let you know about in situ:'s Macbeth, which opens this Thursday - October 15 at The Leper Chapel, Newmarket Road and runs for two weeks.

Thursday October 15 - Sunday October 18 & Thursday October October 22 - Sunday October 25

Time: 8pm.

Running time: 100 minutes approx.

Tickets are available from the Junction 01223 511511 or at the venue from 7.30pm on the evenings of performances.

More details about the performance are on our website:
http://www.insitutheatre.co.uk/current.htm

Hope to see you there.

All the best,

Richard

The Winter's Tale - week two

2009-07-18T18:53:00.003+01:00

Hello Everyone,

This is to let you know about in situ:'s production of The Winters Tale, a revival of last summer's extremely popular show, which is finishing its first week tonight and will be running from Tuesday to Saturday next week at The Leper Chapel. Tickets are available from The Junction:

online booking
tel: 01223 511511
or at the venue from 7.30 on the evenings of the performance.

Full details are on our website.

Look forward to seeing some of you there.

Best wishes and have a great summer.

Richard.

in situ: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare - starts tonight!

2009-06-16T15:53:00.002+01:00

Hello Everyone,

This is to let you know about in situ:'s new production of Twelfth Night, which opens this Tuesday at the Leper Chapel and runs for two weeks until Saturday June 27.

The first two performances - Tuesday June 16 & Wednesday June 17 are already SOLD OUT and tickets for other performances are going fast, so get your tickets now! You can book them at the Junction - 01223 511511, or via our website - or you can take a chance and turn up on the evening of the performances. Tickets will be on sale at The Leper Chapel from 7.30 pm.

Don't forget a further two Shakespeare productions - a new production of King Lear at Wandlebury Country Park and a revival of last year's hugely successful production of The Winter's Tale, also at The Leper Chapel.

Hope to see you there.

Best wishes,

Richard Spaul

THEATRE & LANDSCAPE: A Creative Holiday

2009-02-11T18:57:00.001Z

led by Bella Stewart and Richard Spaul

If you are looking for a special type of holiday, one that combines intensive and enjoyable creative activity with good company, good food and attractive and peaceful surroundings, then you should try Theatre and Landscape.

You don't need any special skills - you don't need to have done any theatre before - you just need a willingness to enter enthusiastically into creative and collaborative work. Creative and fun, Theatre and Landscape will leave you invigorated, refreshed, inspired and wanting more.

Following successful residencies in Norfolk, Suffolk, North Wales and Devon, in situ: will be offering three residencies for 2009, all focusing on Environmental Theatre and in situ:'s unique appoach to it. There are two weekend courses, one in Suffolk, and one in the Peak District, both taking place in early May. The third is a week-long residency in Devon, taking place in September.

All these courses are devoted to the exploration of Theatre and Landscape, or Site-specific Theatre, as it's often called, and all three areas are full of exciting possibilities.

This is what happens. We visit woods, moors, ancient monuments, islands, beaches, castles, and all sorts of other environments. Sometimes we create performances in those environments themselves (although never for an outside audience - the only spectators are the other participants). At other times our visits provide a stimulus for creating theatre back at our base.

The work will not be confined to 'acting' in any restricted sense. There will also be opportunities for writing, painting, group-devising, movement, voice work, and installation-making. Rather than teaching any particular discipline or technique, we want to bring out the artist in people and provide structures and stimuli to allow people's artistic powers and interests to develop. Previous performing (or any other kind of) experience is not necessary, but a willingness to plunge wholeheartedly into collaborative work is of course essential. We think the course will appeal to artists of any level of experience and in any medium (dancers, writers, musicians, painters, actors,singers) and to people in any walk of life, who enjoy doing, or would like to do, collaborative and creative work, whether they think of themselves as artists or not!

The work will be varied - ranging from warm-ups, exercises and excursions with the whole group (8 - 10 people), to work in small groups, pairs and solos.

Theatre and Landscape I: The Haunted Landscape

Toad Hall, nr. Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Friday May 1 - Monday May 4

This beautiful Tudor house, with it's characterful interior and large, tranquil garden, is the ideal base for a weekend exploring the remarkable Suffolk landscape.

It's a haunted landscape, haunted by fears of invasion from across the sea, from the evocative Anglo-Saxon burial site at Sutton Hoo to the eerie Cold War installations of Orford Ness.

There are literary hauntings too - Old Felixstowe is the setting for M.R. James' spine-tingling ghost story - ' O Whistle and I'll come to you, my lad' and Aldeburgh the site for Benjamin Britten's 'Peter Grimes'.

And much else besides.

in situ: takes these fascinating texts, stimuli and sites and, with its own unique brand of theatrical alchemy, turns them into memorable environmental theatre.

cost: £225 per participant (maximum 8 participants)

Theatre and Landscape II: Places and Pasts

Throwley Moor Farmhouse, nr. Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
Friday May 8 - Monday May 11

This charming farmhouse, very close to the beautiful Manifold Valley and Dovedale, is a new location for us and we're very excited about it.

There are lots of fascinating sites to visit. We'll be visiting the Plague Village of Eyam, where there was an isolated outbreak during the Great Plague of 1665/6. We'll be creating performances at Arbor Low - a magnificent stone circle - powerful and evocative - and we'll be exploring some of the many stunning natural environments which have made the region famous.

cost: £225 per participant (maximum 10 participants)

Theatre and Landscape III: Stone and Water

Steeperton, nr. Okehampton, Dartmoor, Devon.
Friday September 11 - Friday September 18:

A lovely big Edwardian House, looking out directly onto the wilds of magnificent Dartmoor, will be our base for this intensive week-long course in Environmental Theatre.

An extraordinary place, bursting with geology, wildlife and archaeology, Dartmoor is a huge lump of granite, shaped by the wind and rain and the many beautiful rivers that flow through it.

The stone of Dartmoor takes many forms, from the tors that dominate the skyline to the remarkable megaliths, churches and castles with which the Moor abounds. We'll be visiting Brentor and the Church of St Michael, who fought with the Devil; Okehampton Castle, haunted by the ghost of Lady Howard, who murdered four of her husbands; and Grimspound, an impressive Bronze-Age settlement - where Sherlock Holmes did his sleuthing in The Hound of the Baskervilles.

To have a look at the accommodation please visit www.helpfulholidays.com

cost: £480 per participant (maximum 10 participants)

For all courses, the cost includes accommodation, all food and drink, all travel, entrance fees and materials used during the course. It does not include travel to and from the accommodation itself.

We will be self-catering and participants will be expected to help out with non-onerous domestic duties.

Most of the rooms involve two or more sharing, but there are some doubles and singles available.

To book onto Theatre and Landscape, you will need to send us a deposit to secure your place. That's £100 for The Haunted Landscape or Places and Pasts and £200 for Stone and Water. This is non-refundable. The balance is due one month before the course begins.

If you'd like to book, please return the form below along with your deposit.

Any questions, please give us a ring on 01223 211451, or email us on: info@insitutheatre.co.uk. We'd be delighted to talk to you. Further details of Theatre and Landscape will be posted on the website shortly. www.insitutheatre.co.uk

Best wishes,

Richard and Bella

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Participation Form (please detach and return)

Yes, I would like to do Theatre and Landscape

Please book me in for :

The Haunted Landscape
Places and Pasts
Stone and Water (delete where appropriate)

I enclose my deposit of £100 / £200 (delete where appropriate)

name:

address:

tel:

E-MAIL:

Please make your cheque payable to: in situ: Theatre Company

Return this form to: 23, Wycliffe Rd, Cambridge CB1 3JD

in situ: Theatre and Landscape, 2009

2009-01-07T17:18:00.004Z

Hello Everybody,

Happy New Year to you all!

This is just to give all close in situ: associates a bit of early warning about this year's extremely exciting and totally unmissable Theatre and Landscape programme. Stuff will be coming out on the website and in print soon, but I want to give you all the basic details now. These events do sometimes sell out quite quickly once they're advertised.

We're doing two weekends and one full week, all in different locations, two of them new locations!

Friday May 1 - Monday May 4 - we'll be in Toad Hall, Suffolk. We've been there two years running - it's a lovely, secluded Tudor mansion, full of character, near Woodbridge. It's great fun to work in - a fantastic base for all our stuff.

In previous years we've been to Sutton Hoo (famous Anglo-Saxon burial site); Dunwich (mysterious medieval town that crumbled into the sea; Aldeburgh (Benjamin Britten, witch-trials and many other attractions) and the extraordinary abandoned nuclear laboratories at Orford Ness. This year, we'll be returning to some of these sites and discovering new ones.

Friday May 8 - Monday May 11 - yes, that's the following weekend! We're going to a completely new location.

We'll be staying in The Peak District, in a lovely big farmhouse called Throwley Hall Farm, nr. Ilam/Ashbourne. (About two and a half hours drive from Cambridge)
There are lots of fascinating sites to visit. We'll be visiting the Plague Village of Eyam (where there was an isolated outbreak during the Great Plague of 1665/6. The Plague arrived from London in a suit of clothes - many people in the village died and they instituted a heroic regime of self-quarantine, whereby nobody was allowed to leave the village - very evocative). We'll be visiting Arbor Low - a magnificent stone circle - and one of the numerous stunning natural environments in which the region abounds - probably Lathkill Dale.

Bella and I know this area very well from previous visits and are very excited about working in this fantastic new location.

Friday September 11 - Friday September 18: This is the whole week. We're going to another new location - a big Edwardian house called Steeperton, near Okehampton in the wilds of Dartmoor. Dartmoor is an extraordinary environment, full of fascinating geology, wildlife and Archaeology. It also has plenty of artistic connections, most notable Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles!

We'll be exploring all this stuff during our week-long stay.

If you haven't done a Theatre and Landscape before, the idea is that we use the different sites and landscapes as a stimulus for wide-ranging creative work, which in the past has not been confined to acting and theatre, but has included installation-making, singing and voice, storytelling, music, painting and creative writing.

Sometimes we create work in the landscape itself. Sometimes, the landscape is a stimulus for work back at our base.

It's a full-on, thoroughly enjoyable and stimulating creative blast, plus lovely food, enjoyable company and comfortable and delightful surroundings.

If you have done it before, hopefully you will need no further persuasion.

The weekends cost £225 each and the Dartmoor week costs £480. This includes everything - food, accommodation, tuition, any travel during the course itself and any materials used. It doesn't include getting to the location in the first place, but lifts are often available from other participants.

If you think you would like to do a Theatre and Landscape, please let me know and I will provisionally hold a place for you, pending the sending out of more information and a booking form. If you want to know more about it, please give us a ring.

hope I've enthused you.

best wishes and see you all soon.

Richard and Bella

Richard Spaul
in situ: Theatre Company
01223-211451
http://www.insitutheatre.co.uk

Learn to Act 2009 Dates

2008-12-18T15:27:00.006Z

Learn to Act 1 - Beginners:
Saturday February 21 & Sunday February 22
Saturday April 25 & Sunday April 26
Saturday October 24 & Sunday October 25

Learn to Act 2 - Advanced:
Saturday March 21 & Sunday March 22
Saturday May 16 & Sunday May 17
Saturday November 21 & Sunday November 22

Time: 10 am - 4.30 pm on Saturday and 12.30pm - 5pm on Sunday

Venue: St Andrews Hall, St. Andrews Road, Chesterton, Cambridge. CB4 1DH

Cost: £75 (£55 concesssion)

Number of students 8-16

Detailed instructions will be supplied on booking.

Please e-mail Richard Spaul for more information and a booking form.

Learn To Act: 2008-9

2008-10-23T21:37:00.003+01:00

Hello Everyone,

This is to let you know about in situ:'s Learn to Act courses, taking place this Autumn and throughout the whole of 2009. I've got a Learn to Act I this coming weekend, a Learn to Act II in early November and then various weekends next year.

So please get in touch if you fancy doing some acting and I would be very grateful if you could pass the information on to anybody else whom you think should be doing some acting!

best wishes,

Richard Spaul

LEARN TO ACT with in situ:

LEARN TO ACT is a series of weekend workshops, introducing people to a broad range of acting techniques. It has been running in Cambridge for over fifteen years and has been attended by hundreds of people of all ages and backgrounds, many of whom go on to do more advanced courses, and some of whom later become part of in situ:’s performance group, which performs several times a year in a number of different venues and has an excellent reputation for high-quality ensemble work.

LEARN TO ACT: reflects in situ:'s deeply-held belief that with time, effort, encouragement and good teaching, everybody is capable of becoming an effective performer, regardless or age, background or previous experience. This has been proved again and again over the many years that Learn to Act has been running.

LEARN TO ACT I: THE BEGINNERS' COURSE is ideal for people who have never acted before, although more experienced performers are extremely welcome. The emphasis is on having fun, freeing the imagination, and feeling comfortable on stage, while working creatively with others. The course consists of lots of theatre games and improvisations, an introduction to physical theatre, an exploration of breathing, voice and emotion, and techniques for creating a stage character.

Here are the details of the next LEARN TO ACT 1 course, taking place this coming weekend, plus details for all LEARN TO ACT 1 courses, taking place in 2009.

Dates:

Course 1: Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 October (2008)
Course 2: Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 February (2009)
Course 3: Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 April (2009)
Course 4: Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 October (2009)

Times: 10 am - 4.30 pm (Saturday) & 12.30pm - 5pm (Sunday)

Venue: St. Andrews Hall, St. Andrews Road, Chesterton, Cambridge. CB4 1DH

This is a new and well-equipped space in Chesterton, about 20 minutes from the centre of Cambridge, with some parking on site. Detailed directions will be supplied on booking.

The cost of the course is: £75/£55 (concession)).

These are all Learn to Act 1 courses and are identical

LEARN TO ACT II: THE ADVANCED COURSE. This is attended by many people who complete LEARN TO ACT I and want to go further, but it is also open to people who already have performing experience and are in search of something more demanding. It is entirely up to you which one you want to do.

One of the main themes of LEARN TO ACT II is THE VOICE, and you will encounter many games, exercises and techniques designed to widen the range, power and flexibility of the voice, that most versatile of all instruments, which so many people are reluctant or unable to use to its full potential either in performance or in other areas of their lives. This theme is closely related to the exploration and interpretation of TEXT.

All participants will be asked to choose and learn a text, which they will have a chance to perform in all sorts of contrasting ways as the course progresses, with a view to discovering how the written word can be made to come alive in performance. We will also work on a text by a major playwright, such as Chekhov or Ibsen.

The Advanced Course is also a weekend course. The next Advanced course is in just over a fortnight, then there are three more courses taking place in 2009.

LEARN TO ACT II:

Dates:

Course 1: Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 November (2008)
Course 2: Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 March (2009)
Course 3: Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 May (2009)
Course 4: Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 November (2009)

Times: 10 am - 4.30 pm (Saturday) & 12.30pm - 5pm (Sunday)

Venue: St Andrews Hall, St Andrews Road, Chesterton, Cambridge. CB4 1DH

Cost: £75/£55 (concession)).

These are all Learn to Act II courses and are identical

At the end of the course, participants will be in a position to perform for an audience and will be invited to take part in in situ:' s
performances, which are professionally-directed, high quality ensemble productions, working with non-professional performers.
We do a wide range of performances, some are devised, some are adaptations of classic texts, often in striking and unusual venues,
and always in a spirit of daring and experiment.

This Summer, we did a new production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and revivals of last Summer's extremely successful performances of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. We are about to start work on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, to be performed next Summer and an ambitious devised piece - A Case of Obsessional Neurosis - based on one of Freud's case histories, will be performed at the end of November this year.

Whichever course you may wish to do, you will find the atmosphere friendly and relaxed, the work hard and energetic, and the teaching sympathetic and skilled.

If you wish to participate, please fill in the form below and return it to me along with your participation fee. Your place will be confirmed in writing, or, if the course is full, your cheque returned.

Should you wish to cancel your place on the course, your fee will be returned (minus an administrative fee of £10), providing you contact us at least two weeks before the course is due to start. No refunds are possible after that, although it may be possible, if necessary, to transfer you from one course to another.

If you have any questions or would like to know more, please feel free to give me a ring. I would be delighted to talk to you.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes,

Richard Spaul

If you would like to participate, please return the form below to:
in situ: 23, Wycliffe Rd, Cambridge, CB1 3JD

For more information on LEARN TO ACT, and to find out about in situ:’s performances, workshops and residencies, please call us on: 01223 211451
or email us on: info@insitutheatre.co.uk

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Participation Form (please detach and return)

Yes, I would like to participate in LEARN TO ACT I
Please book me in for the course starting Oct.25 / Feb. 21 / April 25/ Oct. 24 (2009) (delete where appropriate)

Yes, I would like to participate in LEARN TO ACT 2
Please book me in for the course starting Nov. 8 / March 21 / May 16 / Nov. 21 (2009) (delete where appropriate)

I enclose my participation fee of £75/ 55

NAME:

ADDRESS:

TEL:

E-MAIL:

Please make your cheque payable to: in situ:Theatre Company
Return this form to: 23, Wycliffe Rd, Cambridge.CB1 3JD.

oedipus rex opens on Wednesday 23rd July

2008-07-23T07:35:00.001+01:00

in situ:'s Oedipus Rex opens on Wednesday 23rd July and runs till Saturday 26th July.

It's at the Leper Chapel - it starts at 8pm. Tickets from The Junction - 01223 211451 - or on the door from 7.30.

Hope to see some of you there.

Best wishes,

Richard Spaul

OEDIPUS REX:
by Sophocles
in a new adaptation by: Richard Spaul

The Leper Chapel, Barnwell Junction, Newmarket Road
Wednesday, July 23 - Saturday July 26
8pm

Oedipus Rex - the greatest of all Greek Tragedies. Thebes is under a curse. Disease and death haunt the city. King Laius has been murdered and his killer as yet remains uncaught. His successor, King Oedipus, swears he will solve the mystery, but finds to his growing horror that all the evidence points to himself.

And much worse is to come.

The Leper Chapel is one of the oldest and most atmospheric buildings in Cambridge, creating an ideal site for this powerful drama of corruption, ostracism and social cleansing.

in situ: Cambridge's leading experimental theatre company, in a new and vibrant adaptation of Sophocles' classic, performs inside, outside and all around this remarkable building.

Advance Booking:
The Junction, Clifton Road. Tel: 01223 511511
www.junction.co.uk (online booking)

Tickets available on the door from: 7.30pm (on the night of the performance)

£11 (£9 concessions)

Running time: 100 minutes approx.

Suitable for 16+

Some tickets left for Saturday

2008-06-26T05:37:00.001+01:00

Thursday and Friday are now sold out, with a few tickets remaining for Saturday.

Don't leave it late to book for the last night or you might be disappointed..!

Winter's Tale tickets selling fast!

2008-06-24T16:03:00.001+01:00

The Winters Tale is beginning to sell out, so if you want to come, you should book as soon as possible (01223 511511) or from The Junction's website.

We've got some spaces for Wednesday, but Thursday is full and Friday getting that way. There are places for Saturday night at the moment, but that's likely to sell out too.

Availability for the other productions - Metamorphoses and Oedipus Rex is very good at the moment.

in situ: Summer Performances

2008-06-21T15:00:00.001+01:00

Our new production - a year in the making - is an exciting new interpretation of Shakespeare's mysterious late masterpiece The Winter's Tale, which opens this Saturday (June 21) at The Leper Chapel and runs until Saturday June 28

After that, there will be another opportunity to see productions of

Metamorphoses, based on Ovid's magnificent poem about the nature of Change which runs from July 16 to July 19 in the wonderful setting of Wandlebury Ring

and the greatest of all Greek Tragedies, Sophocles'

Oedipus Rex, also at The Leper Chapel, which runs from July 23 to July 26

Details of all these performances are on the attached documents. You can also visit our NEW WEBSITE for details of all of in situ:'s performances, residencies and workshops.

Hope to see you at some of our performances this Summer.

Learn To Act

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in situ:'s forthcoming LEARN TO ACT workshops, take place on:

Saturday April 19 & Sunday April 20 (Learn to Act 1)

AND

Saturday May 10 & Sunday May 11 (Learn to Act 2)

at St. Andrews Hall, Cambridge, England.

For all the information about in situ:'s workshops, residencies and performances, you can visit our website.