"IT’S THE REALISM AMONGST THE ABSURDITY THAT REALLY ICES MY CAKE" EJ Stedman, TLE on "What Shall We Do With the Cello?" Photo courtesy Horia Petrescu, Sica Alexandrescu Theatre, Brasov 2017

A small but ambitious professional theatre company with a growing reputation, based in Kent. We began with Ibsen's Peer Gynt in 2010. We stayed a while with Ionesco's The Chairs and The Lesson. We have been collaborating for the past five years with Pericles Theatre Company and we won Best Family Show at the Brighton Fringe with The Tale of the Pig, based on a traditional Romanian folk tale and adapted by the company.  We developed our own production of Beatrix Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester, and of The Ugly Duckling, and we have begun working on our own ground-breaking version of the traditional tale of Snow White.  In 2017 we finished the first run of our sell-out production, the UK Premiere of Matei Visniec's great one-act, one hour, play, What Shall We Do With the Cello? - and the show is now popping up in different venues, including in Brasov in Transylvania; at Byline Festival 2018; for 3 nights only at the Bunker Theatre in London Bridge; and most recently in Moldova. In 2019 we performed our newly devised production of H C Andersen's The Little Mermaid, at the Chiddingstone Literary Festival, working with Pericles Theatre Company and their amazing students, and in 2020 we are back at Chiddingstone with our new production based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Nightingale, with wondrous performers Cat & Nicko, who trained in Paris under the great clown master Philippe Gaulier.  Fantastical, funny and provocative, for kids from 3 to 93. 
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Artistic Director Vasile Nedelcu / Executive Producer Flora Smith
Atelier Theatre Studio