Pigeon Theatre
Pigeon Theatre is an all-women, experimental physical performance company, making small/medium scale theatre, site-specific and multi-media work. As well as being current PANDA incubated artists, Pigeon Theatre are also currently Associate Artists at greenroom, Manchester (www.greenroomarts.org). Our central research concern is in the formal structures of space, environment and architecture and the affect of these on the physical spectating experience.
Pigeon Theatre is a group of three women artists who over the past five years have researched and devised performance-work that addresses questions of site-specificity, of non-traditional theatre spaces, of unconventional and unfamiliar spatial/social arrangements, and of performer/spectator intimacy and interactivity. Our central research concern is in the formal structures of space, environment and architecture and the affect of these on the physical spectating experience. Pigeon Theatre’s three full-scale performances over this time have looked thematically at the ways in which women are represented socially and culturally by deconstructing the masculine psyche (The Pigeon, set in a railway arch), domestic labour (The Housekeeper, set in a kitchen), and the generic paradigms of the Heist movie (The Heist Academy, set in/around a large wooden box). Pigeon Theatre’s latest project The Rehearsal is also site-specific (set in a bar) and is in the process of being developed into a trilogy.
Pigeon Theatre has toured nationally and internationally and have performed at a number of venues including: the Green Room, Manchester; the International Theatre Festival, Amsterdam; Alsager Arts Centre; National Review of Live Art; the Xtrax Festival, Manchester; the Frontiers International Theatre Festival, MMU; Street Level Arts Festival, Whitstable; the Commonwealth Games Arts Festival, Manchester; eXpo, Nottingham; Bristol Victoria Rooms; Wellington Mill, Ancoats, Manchester; Art 05, Liverpool; the Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards Workcentre, Pontadera, Italy; the Edinburgh Fringe Festivals 2003 and 2005; Wickham Theatre, Bristol; Charter and Guildhall, Preston; and Art 06, Preston.
Pigeon Theatre are…
- Anna Fenemore – Artistic Director
- Louise Bennett – Performer
- Gillian Knox – Performer
For further information on Pigeon Theatre contact Anna Fenemore, Artistic Director, on 07967 100 164 or pigeon@ptheatre.fsnet.co.uk or visit the website at http://www.greenroomarts.org.