Photos of The Glass Menagerie
Photos from Shared Experience's latest production, The Glass Menagerie, are now on the production page of the website.
View ArticleInterview with Polly Teale
Click on this link to hear Polly talking about The Glass Menagerie: Link
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The Daily Telegraph 4 stars All sons have to abandon their mothers. All fathers have to abandon their sons. At some level. That is how the world works - how it has to work, in order for the child to...
View ArticleBronte gets 4*
Where does creativity spring from? Are artists born or made? How could three lonely women living on the bleak Yorkshire moors more than 150 years ago have created some of literature's most vibrant...
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Captures a huge resonating and conflicting world of Colonial history... A profoundly serious piece of theatre.The Scotsman Heartbreaking... Astonishing... So good it will leave you tongue tied.The...
View ArticleSpeechless gets 4*
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/edinburgh-festival-reviews/7934507/Edinburgh-Festival-2010-Girl-in-the-Yellow-Dress-Speechless-While-You-Lie.html Dominic Cavendish, 9th August, 2010
View ArticleSpeechless gets 4*
http://www.whatsonstage.com/reviews/theatre/london/E8831281110624/Speechless.html Michael Coveney, 6th August, 2010
View ArticleFringe First Award
We are proud to announce that Speechless, a new play inspired by the best-selling book The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace, has been awarded a prestigious Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival...
View ArticleSPEECHLESS to be revived
Following it’s triumphant Edinburgh Festival premiere in August 2010, SPEECHLESS will be revived in Autumn 2011. UK tour and London dates to be announced.
View ArticleBronte in 2011
We are gearing up for BRONTE's return in March after accolades were heaped upon the production earlier this year. The play was last seen at The Watermill where we worked (and lived!) with a company of...
View ArticleSpeechless
Following on from our sell out run of SPEECHLESS at the Edinburgh Festival this summer we have had lots of interest from venues. Next autumn we will be touring the country and bringing SPEECHLESS to...
View ArticleGET INVOLVED
We have also been busy running workshops in schools and universities as well as a week of Process workshops run by Nancy and Polly for actors and directors here in London. ‘a fantastic insight into the...
View ArticleRESIDENT COMPANY AT OXFORD PLAYHOUSE
Shared Experience are thrilled to announce that they are now the resident theatre company at Oxford Playhouse. After many years of touring to the Playhouse we have come to enjoy a thriving relationship...
View ArticleNEW PLAY ABOUT MARY SHELLEY
In 2012 Shared Experience will premiere a new play about the life of Mary Shelley. We relish this opportunity to reconnect with writer Helen Edmundson whose work with Shared Experience includes her...
View ArticleUPCOMING BRONTE TOUR
BRONTE was originally written and directed by Polly Teale in 2005. This new production, directed by Nancy Meckler, began it's life when Shared Experience were invited to collaborate with the Watermill...
View ArticleArts Council National Portfolio Funding cut
We are shocked and disappointed to hear that we will receive no National Portfolio Funding from 2012. We feel strongly our work delivers the Arts Council’s goals and we are devastated by their...
View ArticleFUNDING UPDATE
Last week we were told the news that our Arts Council Grant will be cut completely from 2012. We are deeply shocked and bewildered and are determined to do everything we can to ensure the survival of...
View ArticleNancy Meckler directing at RSC
Nancy Meckler is currently hard at work with the RSC directing Shakespeare's beguiling comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream following her acclaimed and joyous 2005 production of The Comedy of Errors for...
View ArticleFiona Mountford on Shared Experience
A pioneering organisation such as Shared Experience should be prized and not punished with the savage cuts it faces, says Evening Standard theatre critic Fiona Mountford. Read full article here
View ArticlePolly Teale writes on gender bias within theatre
Director Polly Teale's theatre company focuses on putting women's stories centre stage. As they face an uncertain funding future, she explains why the gender bias is now more important than ever....
View ArticleBBC Learning Zones
Watch Polly Teale talk about Shared Experience’s rehearsal process as part of BBC’s Learning Zones.
View ArticleShared Experience Process Workshop
Unfortunately this workshop has now passed. To register your interest in participating in the next Shared Experience Process Workshop please send your name, contact details and CV to...
View ArticleShared Experience Inset Day
Shared Experience are delighted to be running an INSET Day as part of Hampshire Secondary Drama Conference. Taking place on Friday 12 October between 9am and 3.30pm, this day is for teachers who are...
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Polly Teale’s blog
After an exciting year where Mary Shelley toured the length and breadth of England and finished with a sell-out run at the Tricycle, we are planting seeds for 2013. Alexi Kaye Campbell (The Pride,...
View ArticlePolly Teale’s blog 19 February 2013
I am really thrilled to announce that Shared Experience will produce Alexi Kaye Campbell's brilliantly compelling new play, Bracken Moor, as a co-production with the Tricycle Theatre this summer....
View ArticleArts Council Catalyst funding
Two of the country’s foremost touring theatre companies, Shared Experience and Out of Joint, are delighted to announce that they have been awarded funding through Arts Council England’s Catalyst...
View ArticleUpdate from the Rehearsal Room
We’re into Week Three of rehearsals now and the characters are really starting to come to life, while the story itself feels increasingly charged and chilling. Our work in the rehearsal room is largely...
View ArticlePolly Teale to direct Bakersfield Mist by Stephen Sachs
Next spring Polly Teale, Shared Experience's Artistic Director, will be directing the British premiere of a new American play, Bakersfield Mist by Stephen Sachs, at the Duchess Theatre in the West End...
View ArticlePolly Teale creates Emily Wilding Davison Monologue
As part of Oxford Playhouse's season of Radical Thinking, Shared Experience's Artistic Director Polly Teale will be creating a monologue inspired by Emily Wilding Davison, the famous suffragette who...
View ArticleA Day in the Life of Artistic Director Polly Teale
On Wednesday I went to the National Theatre's launch of a new book of 100 Great Plays for Women. It was so heartening to see everyone gathered to celebrate the birth of this glorious idea. Every play...
View ArticleShared Experience awarded £105,000 by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation.
Shared Experience is delighted to announce that it has received an award of £105,000 from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation. The award is the largest of six made by the Foundation to fund...
View ArticlePolly Teale comments on the Andrew Lloyd Webber grant…
Brilliant news. Shared Experience have been awarded £105,000 by the Andrew Lloyd Webber foundation to be spent over three years on an apprentice director and producer. Really excited about what this...
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Mermaid: an insight into research & development
Mermaid: an insight into research & development Insert collage photo Photo: Kristen Perers We had a great week in March exploring Mermaid with a wonderful group of actors who created some...
View ArticleNew Funding for Shared Experience
Shared Experience is thrilled to announce that it has just been awarded funding from the Arts Council for Mermaid, a mythic coming of age story, which will tour throughout the UK during spring 2015....
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