"Shared Experience are in a league of their own"
Time Out
Shared Experience
Shared Experience has been instrumental in pioneering a distinctive performance style that celebrates the union of physical and text-based theatre. We are committed to creating theatre that goes beyond our everyday existence, giving form to the hidden world of the psyche/emotion and imagination. We seek to explore the relationship between the world we inhabit and our inner lives.
Text and language plays a major part in our productions as we strive to offer our audience not only visual excitement, but also deep emotional engagement and intellectual stimulus.
We see the rehearsal process as a genuinely open forum for asking questions and taking risks that redefine the possibilities of performance. At the heart of the company's work is the power and excitement of the actors physical presence and the collaboration between actor and audience - a shared experience.
Text and language plays a major part in our productions as we strive to offer our audience not only visual excitement, but also deep emotional engagement and intellectual stimulus.
We see the rehearsal process as a genuinely open forum for asking questions and taking risks that redefine the possibilities of performance. At the heart of the company's work is the power and excitement of the actors physical presence and the collaboration between actor and audience - a shared experience.
Press
'Shared Experience is one of the most distinctive theatre companies in the land. Those who have seen the company are unlikely to forget its thrilling productions'
Daily Telegraph
'A performance to treasure - the kind of singular, this-is-what-theater-can-be show that doesn't come along every year'
Washington Post on Mill on the Floss
'One of the true highlights of a lifetime of theatre-going'
New York Post on Anna Karenina
Contacts
Shared Experience
- Telephone +44 (0)1865 305321
Fax +44 (0)1865 305333
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- Artistic Director
Polly Teale - Producer
Michelle Walker - Producer's Assistant
Hannah Bevan - Education
Board Members
Richard Humphreys (Chair)
Alan Rivett
Joan Bakewell
Olga Edridge
Alastair Petrie
Mary Roscoe
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