FRONT ROOM THEATRE: Our work, our vision and our mission statement
Our work
Front Room Theatre aims to bring quality productions to as wide and diverse an audience as possible. We began in 2011 with a production of 'Lie Back and Think of America' at Edinburgh's Festival Fringe. With the advice and support of Ian Redford and Naomi Jones, we redeveloped the script and subsequently toured a new version of the play in 2013. We are the brainchild of Natalie Wilcox and Natalie Penn and work collectively with actors, directors and other creative practitioners to create theatre, participatory events and dance classes.
Community projects initiated by us and now run by others, since we moved across the country from South East London to Reading, include weekly tap dancing classes at Shrewsbury House Community Centre in London England, and also Improshrews, which is now run by Helen Beecher-Bryant. In Reading, England, we have provided tap classes at the Rising Sun Arts Centre and ran a community participatory theatre project working with students from the University of Reading and and members of the Reading community, in a production of 'Sarah, Joe et la guerre!' We aim to make our sessions and theatre inclusive.
To this end we have become interested and better and better at producing multi-sensory performances. Our productions include/ have included: Lie Back and Think of America, A Christmas Carol (an adaptation with music with Jim Penn and Sarah Blacker-Barrowman), Secret Garden Shakespeare (Shakespeare monologues with some original music and text), Maya and Natalie's Marvellous Mishmash of Musicals (with Joseph Finlay and Maya Levy) and Natalie's Marvellous Mishmash of Musicals (designed by Amelia Foster-Kane and directed by Emily-Jane Kerr, with Carole Sevestre, Sam Coates and Linda Stewart).
Mission statement
Front Room Theatre exists to create interesting, non-literal, fully immersive, quality story-telling. To engage the audience to be an integral part of the performance rather than just passive observers. Front Room Theatre makes exciting, original, and intimate theatre for community venues, living rooms, theatres, arts centres and other spaces. We are dedicated to producing theatre that we have always wanted to see, to entertain and challenge audiences.
Vision
To create truly theatrical, non-literal, immersive theatre and arts events which are entertaining but also challenge audiences. Through producing interesting theatre, we want to encourage new people to access the arts and retain these audiences that do not necessarily have much access, if any, to professional theatre, so that they come to see productions again, but not only that, we want them to discover and access other arts activities available in the venues in which we perform thereby enriching their lives and improving their sense of happiness, inclusion and well-being for the length of the time they live in any particular area.
Our work
Front Room Theatre aims to bring quality productions to as wide and diverse an audience as possible. We began in 2011 with a production of 'Lie Back and Think of America' at Edinburgh's Festival Fringe. With the advice and support of Ian Redford and Naomi Jones, we redeveloped the script and subsequently toured a new version of the play in 2013. We are the brainchild of Natalie Wilcox and Natalie Penn and work collectively with actors, directors and other creative practitioners to create theatre, participatory events and dance classes.
Community projects initiated by us and now run by others, since we moved across the country from South East London to Reading, include weekly tap dancing classes at Shrewsbury House Community Centre in London England, and also Improshrews, which is now run by Helen Beecher-Bryant. In Reading, England, we have provided tap classes at the Rising Sun Arts Centre and ran a community participatory theatre project working with students from the University of Reading and and members of the Reading community, in a production of 'Sarah, Joe et la guerre!' We aim to make our sessions and theatre inclusive.
To this end we have become interested and better and better at producing multi-sensory performances. Our productions include/ have included: Lie Back and Think of America, A Christmas Carol (an adaptation with music with Jim Penn and Sarah Blacker-Barrowman), Secret Garden Shakespeare (Shakespeare monologues with some original music and text), Maya and Natalie's Marvellous Mishmash of Musicals (with Joseph Finlay and Maya Levy) and Natalie's Marvellous Mishmash of Musicals (designed by Amelia Foster-Kane and directed by Emily-Jane Kerr, with Carole Sevestre, Sam Coates and Linda Stewart).
Mission statement
Front Room Theatre exists to create interesting, non-literal, fully immersive, quality story-telling. To engage the audience to be an integral part of the performance rather than just passive observers. Front Room Theatre makes exciting, original, and intimate theatre for community venues, living rooms, theatres, arts centres and other spaces. We are dedicated to producing theatre that we have always wanted to see, to entertain and challenge audiences.
Vision
To create truly theatrical, non-literal, immersive theatre and arts events which are entertaining but also challenge audiences. Through producing interesting theatre, we want to encourage new people to access the arts and retain these audiences that do not necessarily have much access, if any, to professional theatre, so that they come to see productions again, but not only that, we want them to discover and access other arts activities available in the venues in which we perform thereby enriching their lives and improving their sense of happiness, inclusion and well-being for the length of the time they live in any particular area.