About Us

about us Kindle Theatre is an all-female company based in Birmingham making devised theatre that interacts live with its audience and environment.  As well as performing in theatres and arts centres we have created work in caves, glass factories, moving vehicles, churches and the UK’s oldest cinema.  The work is highly visual and musical and uses food to create a communal experience.We like to collaborate with artists, experts and enthusiasts.

Training

Kindle members training-influences come from a variety of sources, most notably original Grotowski actress Rena Mirecka, Odin Teatret’s Roberta Carreri, and Roy Hart Theatre practitioners Noah and Margeret Pikes and John Wild. We like kickboxing, capoeira, sun salutations, freewriting, improvising text and song, singing and slow motion hurdling.

Thanks

Kindle Theatre would like to acknowledge the support of established practitioners and artists who have supported the development of the company.

Supporters:

Arts Council England

The Sir Barry Jackson Trust: beastly Beauties and EAT YOUR HEART OUT

Chinaplate productions: Paul Warwick and Ed Collier, www.chinaplatetheatre.com

PILOT nights: www.pilotnights.co.uk

COACHWERKS: studio space, www.coachwerks.org.uk

Associate Artists and Collaborators:

Steven Davies: documentation, lighting design and website www.filmcafe.co.uk

Nina Smith: Performer, EAT YOUR HEART OUT

Martin Bonger: Performer, EAT YOUR HEART OUT (development)

Rosalyn Newbery: production manager, food EAT YOUR HEART OUT

Phill Ward: Music Design, EAT YOUR HEART OUT

Tony Appleby: Set Design, EAT YOUR HEART OUT

Laura Mattison: Viloin, EAT YOUR HEART OUT

Catherine Pollard: Cello, EAT YOUR HEART OUT

Claire Wearn: Production Manager, EAT YOUR HEART OUT

Graeme Rose: Performer, the ride home www.graemerose.com

John Flitcroft: Performer, the ride home

Janice Mckenzie: Performer, the ride home

Iris Bertz: Sculpture, the glasshouse, www.irisbertz.co.uk

Geoff Broadway: Light Installation, the glasshouse, www.intentional.co.uk

Keir Williams: TV/Film/Sound, the glasshouse

Annie Mahtani: Electro-acoustic composition, the glasshouse, www.anniemahtani.co.uk

Lynette Clee: Photography, the glasshouse

Kimberly Trusty: Poetry, the glasshouse

Jerome Harrington: Glass Book Display, the glasshouse, www.jeromeharrington.net

Carran Waterfield: Mentor 2005-06 and director of Beastly Beauties, visiting director, the glasshouse www.triangletheatre.co.uk

Companies:

Stan’s Cafe, EAT YOUR HEART OUT www.stanscafe.co.uk

Blanch & Shock Food Design: EAT YOUR HEART OUT www.blanchandshock.co.uk

Pentabus, underland, www.pentabus.co.uk

Clearwell Caves, Forest of Dean, underland, www.clearwellcaves.com