RSC PILOT NIGHT, Thursday 12th July 2012
The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford upon Avon
Part of The World Shakespeare Festival
The RSC has teamed up with PilotNights to create a special evening of new performance that will offer artists a unique opportunity to show their work on a World Shakespeare Festival platform and give audiences an insight into how brand new theatre ideas are formed and staged.
Call for West Midlands Theatre Makers - New Performance Ideas Wanted
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s PILOT Night will be an evening of new devised theatre ideas, created by artists from the West Midlands.
The RSC and PilotNights are interested in seeing new performance ideas that explore how Shakespeare’s work is referenced within contemporary culture and how his words, stories, characters and ideas have seeped into our everyday lives.
Responses to the brief can be wide ranging and could explore big thematic ideas or a single stage direction. Ideas can be dark, satirical, visual, humorous or irreverent. The performance should avoid using Shakespeare’s text in a literal sense and focus instead on using his words, ideas or stories as a starting point for a new theatrical idea.
The work created can be up to twenty minutes in duration and will be created to be performed somewhere within The Courtyard Theatre at the RSC in Stratford Upon Avon on the 12th July.
Part of The World Shakespeare Festival
The RSC and PilotNights are interested in seeing new performance ideas that explore how Shakespeare’s work is referenced within contemporary culture and how his words, stories, characters and ideas have seeped into our everyday lives.
Responses to the brief can be wide ranging and could explore big thematic ideas or a single stage direction. Ideas can be dark, satirical, visual, humorous or irreverent. The performance should avoid using Shakespeare’s text in a literal sense and focus instead on using his words, ideas or stories as a starting point for a new theatrical idea.
Submissions are by open application and the RSC and PilotNights will select up to five artists or companies that are based within the West Midlands. The five selected artists will each be offered expenses of £500 towards development of the work.
The RSC is keen to offer support to selected artists creating work and each artist or company will be able to access the following opportunities:
- A production meeting early on to see the space and meet relevant members of the RSC team
- Access to a producer from the RSC
- A workshop weekend to meet and share ideas with other participating artists and work alongside the RSC’s voice and movement teams
For more information please CLICK HERE for full artist brief
To submit an application please CLICK HERE to download the application form.
The closing date for applications is Monday 12th March 2012 at 12 midday.
If you would like to discuss your proposal before submitting an application, please contact Lucia Hogg, Event Producer at the Royal Shakespeare Company on 01789 272 570, email lucia.hogg@rsc.org.uk
The World Shakespeare Festival is produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company for London 2012 Festival.