Meeting Ground Theatre Company

Meeting Ground Theatre Company is an experimental theatre company,[1] based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. The company originates much of its work in Nottingham[2] and tours many of its plays in the East Midlands, but it has also engaged in a number of international collaborations,[3] and a number of its productions have appeared at the Magdalena International Women's Theatre Festival.

In 2014 The company's artistic directors are playwright Stephen Lowe,[4] Tanya Myers[5] and Tom Wright.

History

The company was founded in 1985 by Lowe, Myers, Bush Hartshorn, Jo Buffery and Stephen Mapp, after Lowe and Myers moved to Nottingham from London.

In the 1990s two productions were directed by Polish director Zofia Kalinska, one of which, Plaisirs d'Amour, she directed in parallel with a Polish-language production of the same piece for Akne Theatre.[6] In 2002 the company ran a workshop in Romania, bringing together theatre artists from Algeria, Palestine, Romania and Serbia.

Productions have varied in performance style and form, from puppetry to video, from playwright-led play to street theatre and performance art; and ranged in subject and theme from the First World War to gender roles and female sexuality, from people smuggling to the Luddites.

Participating actors have included George Costigan, Neil Dudgeon, Tamzin Griffin, and Maurice Roëves (UK); Zbigniew Yann Rola (Poland), Ulrike Johannson and Astrid Kuhl (Germany).

The company has co-produced, or worked in association with the Liverpool Playhouse, Akne Theatre, Central Television, Nottingham Playhouse, AZ Theatre and the Young Vic. They have received funding from the Arts Council, East Midlands Arts, Nottingham City Council, Central Television, North West Arts, The Gulbenkian Foundation, the British Council, LOT Airlines, the Institute of Mental Health Nottingham, the National Institute for Health Research SDO and CLAHRC-NDL.

Productions

Projects

Publications

References

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  1. Baz Kershaw (11 September 2002). The Politics of Performance: Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention. Routledge. pp. 276–. ISBN 978-1-134-93272-6.
  2. Undercut: The Magazine from the London Filmmaker's Co-op Issues 16-19. The Co-op. 1986. p. 46.
  3. Elaine Aston (5 July 2005). Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook. Routledge. pp. 204–. ISBN 978-1-134-77151-6.
  4. Kathryn Ann Berney; N. G. Templeton (1 January 1994). Contemporary British Dramatists. St. James Press. pp. 440–441. ISBN 978-1-55862-213-5.
  5. "Dementia care research becomes basis for touring play". Times Higher Education. 1 March 2015 | By Matthew Reisz
  6. 1 2 Myer, M Grosvenor, Plaisirs d'Amour, review of production, The Guardian; December 17, 1992; p28.
  7. Goldman, Steven. Demon Lovers, review of production at Croydon Warehouse, The Guardian; Jun 15, 1987, p10.
  8. Thornber, Robin, Critics' Choice, preview of Paradise, The Guardian; May 31, 1990, p29.
  9. Caplan, Betty, Devilry with she-demons, review of Sale of the Demonic Women, The Guardian; Nov 8, 1990, p30.
  10. Lewis, Jeremy, Small Waves, review of production, Nottingham Evening Post; April 17, 2006
  11. "Review: Inside Out of Mind, Lakeside Arts Centre, by Alan Geary". Nottingham Post. Retrieved on 29 September 2014.
  12. "INSIDE OUT OF MIND To 29 June. :: ReviewsGate.com :: The Theatre Reviews site that covers the UK.". Retrieved on 29 September 2014.
  13. "Inside Out Of Mind: Dementia, its victims and how their loved ones cope". Derby Telegraph, January 19, 2015
  14. "Time in and out of mind". Retrieved on 29 September 2014.

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