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Welcome to The Lab Collective. We create performance which transcends forms to produce a visceral, intimate experience for the audience, treading the line between theatre, installation and art, we allow the audience to trace an active path through our work.
For the past four years, we have worked in a variety of traditional and non traditional performance spaces, exploring and playing across disciplines to generate an innovative theatrical experience.
2011 was an incredibly busy year, with performances at The V&A, The Basement, our Arch 468 Bursary, The Latitude 2011 Festival, Theatre503, Chester Castle and the BAC.
R&D for a new large scale project begins in February and we have some really exciting news coming up for spring 2012, so keep your eyes peeled! Follow us on Facebook or Twitter to keep thoroughly up to date.
We work with concepts of the live event and audience interaction, often by fusing performance and media in response to unique spaces.
We create work in an open and collaborative environment, exploring all aspects of theatre in a workshop based setting. Our performance is often devised, and we relish working with performers from many different backgrounds and disciplines to constantly evolve and develop our distinctive practice.
The Lab Collective was formed in 2007 by a group of Rose Bruford Students. We were and are continuing to be interested in process led performance, as a means of opening out the theatrical experience to the spectator, and producing devised performance of depth and complexity.
The Lab started as a playground for artists from multiple disciplines to explore and develop performance in a safe and research led environment. In late 2007 we were offered a residency at the Birds Nest, Deptford, during which time we opened the floor to like minded practitioners looking to showcase performance in development, producing both our own work and that of others in a series of scratch nights. Our performances took place in spaces from the bar itself, to the roundabout outside and we began to use to the space to engage with the spectator in an intimately responsive way.
Our interest in this developed as we worked in spaces such as the Roundhouse Studio, the Southwark Playhouse, the V&A, The Gladstone Hotel (Toronto) and Theatre Delicatessen. Along the way we have developed relationships with performers, directors, film makers and movement specialists who regularly collaborate with us as Associate Artists.
Joseph Thorpe is a graduate of the Rose Bruford Directing BA (Hons).
Joseph is a founding member of the company, and together with his directing credits for the Lab Collective, works as a freelance music practitioner and sound designer. Credits include The Time of Your Life by William Sorayn Directed by Max Lewendel at The Finborough Theatre, Dry Lightning by Rachel Barnett Directed by Elizabeth Newman at the Arcola.
Joseph is also a recipient of the Arch 468 resident Bursary in 2010, and is running open access workshops on Site Responsive Theatre.
Natalie Scott is a graduate of the Rose Bruford European Theatre Arts BA (Hons.) She has also trained at the Institut del Teatro in Barcelona, specialising in puppetry and physical theatre.
Together with her directing credits with the Lab, Natalie is also a freelance workshop facilitator for The New Wimbledon Theatre and the Polka Theatre amongst others.
Natalie is a founding member of the Lab Collective, and is also a recipient of the Arch 468 resident Bursary in 2010, and is running open access workshops on Site Responsive Theatre
Since Graduating from Rose Bruford (BA Hons Acting) Neil has appeared on the West end, The London Fringe and has toured the UK as well as internationally. He is a consummate deviser, while also working full time for the imposarios.
Neil was nominated for an Off West End Award for his role in Matador, and has also won awards in his home city; Dublin. Neil is also a skilled street theatre performer, stilt walker and improviser.
Jane Dawson graduated from Rose Brufords European Theatre Arts in 2007. She has trained with Teatr Piesn Kozla, Wroclaw and The Higher Theatre School of Estonia, Tallinn. Whilst there, Jane focused extensively on acrobatics and contemporary dance.
Recent credits include Sandbags and Dirty Tashes devised for the Open Up Sheffield festival 2008, The First day of my Life devised for Studio_leeds in 2008, The Panic of Lais Devised by the company using The Garden of Delights by Fernando Arabel; Directed by Gemma Rowan for the Aphra Theatre Canterbury, 2008 and Memorial to the Iraq war directed by Yael Davids for the Institute for Contemporary Arts, 2007.
Jane is currently working towards her MA at Aberystwyth University. http://www.janedawson.org.uk
Bethany Pitts has spent the past year as Assistant Director for Icarus Theatre Collective, working on Time of your Life (Finborough Theatre), Vincent in Brixton (National Tour) and Othello (National Tour). Past credits include Natural Selection (Theatre 503) , Many Roads to Paradise (Finborough Theatre), and Cricket on the Moon (Edinburgh Festival 2007).
Beth has most recently directed the rehearsed reading of Richard Cameron's Can't Stand up for Falling Down for the Lab Theatre Collective.
Jamie Franklin is a recent graduate from the European Theatre Arts programme at Rose Bruford College in London, UK. Previous credits for The Lab include Myth and Memory (filmographer) and Rough Curves (performer and filmographer) for the Southwark Playhouse in July 2008.
She has previously trained at Canterbury Arts School in Ottawa, Canada. Interested in film and the mixture of different mediums in live performance she has worked with experimental theatre companies such as Aktivnagruppa in Slovakia on 'The Innocents', and is currently collaborating with the Lab Collective in creating new work. Between living in the UK and Canada she also runs Little Bird Theatre.
Claire Goatham graduated from Rose Bruford College in 2007 with a BA in Acting. Since leaving drama school she has worked with various theatre companies; Kent Theatre Company (Edward II Now You See Me; Now You Dont, Immediate Theatre London Tour 09), Black Cat Theatre Company (Bully 4 U, UK Tour 08), Shared Property (Lie of the Land, Hampstead Theatre) and Net Curtains Theatre Company (Lie of the Land, Rehearsed Reading).
Claire is also a founding member of Wasted Grace Dance Theatre Company and is currently working on a devised physical theatre piece with The Lab Collective.
R&D Projects!!
Call for artists
The Lab Collective are going into Research and Development for their forthcoming performance Straw men and are looking for interested arts to collaborate to create this challenging piece of futility and the ongoing uphill struggle of society and our attitudes towards it.
Workshops will begin at the beginning of February.
If you are interested, please send an email to :
info_thelabcollective.co.uk
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Fields of Tinder at Chester Castle
This years Up The Wall Festival was wonderful! We would like to thank Chester Performs who were so welcoming an supportive.
Fields of Tinder was very well recieved, and Agricola tower made a wonderful home for the piece.
We will shortly be going back into R&D to redevelop the Fields of Tinder for new spaces in 2012!
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