Greenhouse 2020!

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN 2020
Last year The Greenhouse Theatre took huge strides. They pushed boundaries and moved forward in their goal to be a 100% sustainable theatre company. The Edinburgh Fringe hit them with open arms and they constantly found new ways to develop an environmentally conscious theatre group.

That’s why we’re so excited to announce that this year we’re going further.

My name is Bryn Richards, I’m the new Deputy Head Of Marketing for the Greenhouse Theatre. I’m going to be working alongside the wonderful Greenhouse team as we all take our journey into 2020!

Speaking about a wonderful Greenhouse Team, here they are:

Oli Savage - Artistic Director
Emily Hepher - Executive Director
Sarah Chamberlain - Creative Producer
Cate Hanlon - Head Of Outreach
Holly Cowley - Dep. Head Of Outreach
Lucy Reis - Head of Design and Build
Ben Clark - Head Of Marketing
Bryn Richards - Dep. Head Of Marketing
Lara Tillotson - Graphic Designer

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be talking to our new team to find out more about their roles within our Greenhouse family. But that’s not the only thing you need to keep your eyes out for. Today we announced the six amazing shows that we'll be producing this summer, I think this is a perfect opportunity to delve more into them:

“DANCE SHOW”
Written and directed by Matthew Rawcliffe
Design by Ruby Butcher
Matthew is currently developing a new work which centres around conversations on environmental activism – from Extinction Rebellion arrest stories to Vegan Dating Apps. Using spoken word, contemporary dance and music – in collaboration with costume designer Ruby Butcher, their goal is to create a performance piece which hopefully sparks thoughts around what it means to care for our planet.

“12”
Written by Henry Roberts
Directed by Oli Savage
Inspired by the 2018 IPCC report warning us that we have twelve years left before irreversible climate catastrophe ensues, 12 is a play that takes a microscopic view on the climate crisis. With just a two-person cast and a fluid-structure, this play explores personal and collective guilt, whilst also examining what it means to remember, what it means to regret and how intimacy between people changes as everything we recognise as normal collapses around us. Why do our memories distort themselves? Why did childhood seem so long but now time seems to move so fast? Is intimacy a powerful act of rebellion or the last act of humanity we have before the calamity hits?

“AS YOU LIKE IT”
Directed by Oli Savage
As You Like It is easily Shakespeare’s most famous pastoral show – its central theme is undoubtedly the power of nature, and it also explores the importance of remaining connected with the natural world around us. It asks why we feel the need to contain nature, and to push it out of our human spaces – or, indeed, when it is in those human spaces, why we feel the need to have complete control over it. In the end, this is a show that is about reminding people of why nature is great – and hopefully, it will encourage them to understand that it’s something worth saving.

“HUMAN/NATURE”
Written by Isla Cowan
Directed by Avigail Tlalim
human/nature is a show about humans, nature and human nature. Through monologue, movement and music, this eclectic and experimental play probs at what it means to be human. It examines how we are ‘naturally’ and genetically programmed to block out ideas of global warming – this is because our brains perceive it as a threat, something too big for human comprehension, and so we shut it down. Tackling climate change, therefore, becomes an act of overcoming our human-ness, an act of going beyond ourselves, even perhaps an act of the posthuman. Where does ‘the human’ begin and end? When and where (and how) can we be ‘natural’? What happens when our gut instincts become our biggest enemy?

“STAR BURNT LOVER”
Artistic Direction by Sarah McCormick and Elena Stalwick
An apocalyptic planet Earth in the not too distant future is where we lay our scene and a pair of lovers still manage to cross each other. The greatest tragedy ever was written meets the greatest tragedy the world has ever faced, but how does this flaming and flooding environment alter their story? Is there anything Romeo and Juliet can do to save the planet and themselves? In this radical re-envisioning of Shakespeare’s text, we invite the audience to actively share their opinions, direction and to join us on stage and on the grander stage of life in creating the ending that they would like to see.

“CASS”
Written by Louis Catliff
Siblings Donald and Cass go on a hiking trip in a remote part of Scotland. They are estranged, however well-meaning Donald is determined for them to go away and bond. They are children of divorce who have recently been brought back together by the death of their mother. They are either just coming from her funeral or they are about to go to it. All does not go as planned and after an argument turns physical Cass falls down a cliff and finds herself in a darker, deeper, rubbish-strewn part of the forest.

And those are our upcoming productions!! As you may know, we will be returning the Edinburgh fringe with these 6 shows this Summer. But, we will also be heading down to London this June for a run of our shows!

The environment needs our help and theatre is one way we can do that. Spreading our messages and working as a team we will go above and beyond in 2020!!

Thanks for reading!
Bryn.