INTERGENERATIONAL WORK – PROJECTS AND REPORTS

Since 2000, Bubble has delivered 11 ‘open’ projects. ‘Open’ in that they include anyone who wants to be involved (there are no auditions). Some of these open projects have been outdoor, sometimes they are site specific, promenade, scripted, verbatim, devised, all quite different but all with one commonality – they had a company of performers aged between 7 and 70 who […]

THEATRICAL TECHNIQUES AND CREATIVE THINKING

Jonathan Petherbridge, Artistic director of London Bubble Theatre Company, describes the company’s work with pre-school age children and their teachers. A teacher marks out an area of the classroom floor using electrical tape. The class sits around the edge. They are an audience. The taped area is a stage. The teacher starts to read a […]

THEATRE PROJECTS AND YOUNG PEOPLE

This article was written by Steve Beebee, for the December 2002 issue of Young People Now If you work with young people, you’ll probably have figured out for yourself that by and large youth and the performing arts go well together. The most difficult bit is getting them willing or confident enough to participate in […]

CASTLES IN THE PARK

Castles in the Park The first written history of Bubble Theatre by Tony Rowlands, 1984