Description
Theatre and Landscape 2024 takes place in Dorset, a county with a famous coastline, a rich artistic and cultural heritage – Thomas Hardy, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the Cerne Abbas Giant to name but a few – and a beautiful inland landscape of ancient churches and attractive villages.
There is a huge range of fascinating sites to explore including Tolpuddle, whose ‘Martyrs’ were transported to Tasmania for creating one of the earliest Trade Unions; Maiden Castle, an enormous Iron-Age fort – the largest in Britain; Cerne Abbas – its ancient well and melancholy Abbey ruins and its very unmelancholy Giant – an extraordinary figure carves into the hillside that has amused and inspired generations of visitors; St Catherine’s Chapel – a lonely, atmospheric, stripped-out little church with an extraordinary acoustic, high above the beginning of Chesil Beach – a geographical oddity unique in the world.
It’s a wonderful place – we will be seeking inspiration from and responding to all this rich heritage and will be using what we discover to create writing, objects and assemblages, environments, installations and performances.
We are based at Marles Farmhouse in Salwayash in West Dorset. As ever this will supply us with very comfortable accommodation and many inspiring work spaces inside and outside.
On top of all this, there will be great home-made food and convivial company.
A very enjoyable creative experience, both stimulating and relaxing.
If you would like to participate, we need a deposit of £400 to secure your place and we would need the balance a month before (i.e. early August).
Places are limited, so let us know first that you would like to take part and we will let you know if spaces are available.
We can then give you the payment details if you require them.
You can find out more and contact us on: 01223 211451
Dates: Friday August 30 – Friday September 6
Stephen Adams –
excellent fun, recommended, Richard and Bella are great hosts, if i wasn’t making plans to emigrate, i would be taking up a place,