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Trading Faces 28 Brick Meadow |
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| current production | past productions | |
| phone | ffôn | 01588 630555 |
| e-mail address | e-bost | admin@tradingfaces.org.uk |
| web site | wefan | www.tradingfaces.org.uk |
| director cyfarwyddwr |
Thomasina Carlyle / Tony Davies |
| artistic
policy polisi artistig |
Trading Faces entertains people by using masks to create popular, appealing and energetic theatre. As a theatre company of national and international renown, Trading Faces creates and uses distinctive and original masks in performance and for educational and training purposes. |
| brief history hanes cryno |
Trading Faces is a theatre company specialising in masks and physical theatre. The company started in 1987 and was based in Oxfordshire for 11 years up until the end of March 2005 when the company moved to its current base in Shropshire. Trading Faces has presented performances and projects throughout the West Midlands, Southern and South East Arts Regions and to venues throughout the country. 12,000 people a year are involved in Trading Faces activities as audiences or participants. Trading Faces performances are highly visual and physical. The company devises its professional shows through improvisation using full masks, half-masks and, most recently, commedia masks. Recent arts centre tours have included Creaking Shadows, Tempting Fate and The Wife of Bath. Work for family audiences includes collaborations with Forest Forge Theatre Company: Double Trouble (outdoor tour) and Jungle Book (schools tour) and The Little Prince with Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company Over the last eighteen years under the direction of founder Tony Davies and co-Artistic Director Thomasina Carlyle Trading Faces have run an extensive education programme for colleges, schools, and community groups. Trading Faces’ participatory work has been documented on Channel 4, CBS, Central TV, Radio 4 and numerous publications including National Drama, London Drama and Prison Service News. Many projects are set up in partnership with venues, district authorities and local education authorities, whilst other projects are developed in response to requests from specific groups. All projects have performance as their main focus, with an equal bias on sharing skills and techniques that last beyond the life of the project. |
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past productions rhai cynhyrchiadau'r gorffenol |
Creaking Shadows, National art centre tour 2002 & 2003. A haunting thriller inspired by the life and stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Double Trouble 2001 & 2002 an outdoor summer spectacular touring to urban and rural outdoor spaces using traditional commedia dell 'arte masks. Jungle Book a primary schools tour inspired by Rudyard Kiplings books (co-production with Forest Forge Theatre Company); 2000-2001 The Little Prince (a co-production with Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company), inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic book; Tour to village halls and community venues 2002. The Wife of Bath, National art centre tour 1999 & 2000 a bawdy ‘medieval’ romp inspired by Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Tempting Fate National art centre tour 2000 An anarchic comedy inspired by Merimees Carmen. The Man Who Woke up in the Dark, National art centre tour 1997 & 1998. A comic drama about the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci. |
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