Memory, Stories and Senses is an ongoing resarch project led by Ben Ratclife, Module Coordinator - Lighting Design. This project was part of an experiment that began many years ago with a devising workshop with the State of Space Theatre Company, which used a series of spaces that dictated physical vocal and emotional responses to […]
Tilly No-Body: Catastrophes of Love - The Play and Solo Performance, written and performed as a one-woman show by Bella Merlin, directed by Miles Anderson, which focuses on the life of Tilly Wedekind, wife to the German playwright, Frank Wedekind; the project will be reflected upon as a critical commentary by Nesta Jones through interviews […]
Noel Greig (1944-2009) was an influential actor and playwright who co-founded The Brighton Combination, worked with The General Will and was a key member of Gay Sweatshop, later writing extensively for and with young people through Theatre Centre and many other companies. The College is honoured to hold an archive of material related to Noel […]
Designs and Design Processes The following productions and projects I have chosen to list are part of a process, sometimes conscious at the time, sometimes upon reflection, that demonstrate my work as a designer for performance that aims to be inclusive. As a teacher, and as a practicing designer, the ideas I express do not […]
Michael Walling is Artistic Director of Border Crossings, which creates new intercultural, multi-media theatre in response to the contemporary globalised world. The Company’s Patron is Peter Sellars and its funding includes the EU Culture Programme, Lottery Fund, China-UK Connection, Collage Arts and the Commonwealth Foundation. He has developed the company’s Orientations Trilogy through his association with the College, […]
Jo Joelson has been a practising lighting designer for over 20 years since completing her lighting design studies at Croydon College in 1991 and is known for her work within theatre and music having created pioneering and experimental projects such as a collaboration between Panasonic Globe Theatre, Tokyo and Shakespeare’s Globe, London with leading Japanese […]
Dr Nick Hunt’s mixed media essay, The Operator Connects, which describes his research investigation into the role of the theatre lighting operator, went online in early December 2013 at www.passages-project.org.uk The practical investigation took place through a research-performance Passages. The Operator Connects is in part a critical reflection on this investigation, and comprises a collection of inter-related mini-essays in video, […]
Encounters with Kantor, led by Andrzej and Teresa Welminski, practitioners based at Cricot 2 Theatre of Tadeusz Kantor, Krakow, resulting in two devised pieces Traumatikon and Pages from the book of, both performed by graduates and students of the European Theatre Arts Programme at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the Summerhall venue, and by invitation at […]
The Clive Barker Centre for Theatrical Innovation, in partnership with The Stanislavski Centre and The Rose Bruford Centre for Voice and Speech present.. THEATRE OF CATASTROPHE A Weekend with Howard Barker and The Wrestling School Rose Bruford College is excited to welcome Britain’s most brilliantly innovative playwright, Howard Barker, and his company The Wrestling School […]
Project Background The Spoils began in 2007 as a musical stage play written by Steven Dykes (Rose Bruford College American Theatre Arts Programme Director) with a score composed by Paul Englishby and commissioned by RBC graduate company, The Shady Dolls. The production was revived in September 2009 as part of the Arcola Theatre’s “Grimeborne Festival”. In 2010, The Spoils entered a […]