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Arts Council funding confirmed!

We’re delighted to let you know that the Arts Council have awarded us a national touring grant for the Autumn!
We’ll be on the road from October 20 to November 19, so catch us if you can…
 Wakefield Arts Centre   20 October   01924 211311
Darlington Arts Centre  21 October
Sqaure Chapel, Halifax  23 October
Leeds university            30 October (TBC)
Bury Met …

The writer writes

During the course of this week, we have looked at how the ideas and central themes of evolution and natural selection and the forces that work in them, could work for us as a dramatic entity.‘Cataclysmic event’, ‘random action’, ‘chance’, ‘energy’ and ‘brute force’ - these are all terms that we pulled from our reading …

Our Theatre Piece

Week one at contact theatre.
Our reseach and development week here at Contact Theatre in sunny Manchester has proved incredibly fruitful.
From small beginnings, focussing on the humble earthworm, to scientific chats with Chris at the Interdisciplinary Biocentre at Manchester University, we’ve lurched between greenhouses and train crashes, LCD screens to tracing paper, and everything inbetween, in …

Darwins Worms

2009 is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. There are many things planned to mark it and many of them are beginning later in 2008. The keenest brains in the land tell us that the man’s life, legacy and work are more important now than ever and we believe this project to be of …

Darwins Worms Frog Man Hepworth
with love from Plimsoles and flipflops