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Welcome to Forest Forge Theatre Company
Forest Forge is one of the UK’s leading small-scale touring theatre companies. It specialises in creating professional performances and Creative Learning projects that share people’s stories and experiences, with the ongoing aim of inspiring, engaging and transforming communities. The company is particularly interested in new writing.
Forest Forge is committed to making theatre accessible by touring work directly into people’s communities, to a variety of venues and working with a range of people through bespoke projects and workshops.
Forest Forge makes theatre performances and workshops that sometimes challenge and are sometimes unexpected, but always inspiring.
The company is based in Ringwood on the edge of the New Forest and has been touring work for over 30 years.
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Making Language Visual - Kaite O"Reilly blog on Woman of Flowers
Turning written text into visual, physical language – transforming words on the page into signs and gestures that take flight…. I love working with Jean St Clair. In her London apartment this week, I worked with her and Sophie Stone, transforming written text from my new play Woman of Flowers into flowing, beautiful visual language.
Read More...Woman of Flowers read through
We have had the first read through of Woman of Flowers to a small invited audience. It was great for the creative team to hear the piece out loud and to have ideas from the actors in the room. Here are some pictures of the day:
Read More...Woman of Flowers Grant success
Forest Forge are delighted to announce that they have been awarded a grant from the Arts Council in order to tour Woman of Flowers by Kaite O'Reilly in the autumn of this year. The company put a call out a few months ago to our supporters in order to raise some match funding in order to support this application. We were delighted with the response and amazed by the generosity of the 135 people who gave us £13,741 in a week. Thank you so much- we couldn't have done it without you. The next step in the project is a rehearsed reading on the 27th June at 6pm at Salisbury Playhouse. We will then go into rehearsals on the 26th August and the show opens on the 17th September and will tour until the 1st November. So look out for Woman of Flowers coming to a venue near you!
Read More...The Director's Blog
Summer time and the living is easy…..
So, we have come to the end of the season and we are prepping like mad for the new one- 4 shows in 4 months! Woman of Flowers goes into rehearsals on 26th August and I am so looking forward to seeing everyone and starting the journey of this amazing piece of work by Kaite O'Reilly. Then I am off to Bournemouth to direct their World War One commemoration in the Council Chambers: Shot at Dawn by John Foster. Then back to the Forge for 2 Christmas shows: the first stage adaptation of Stardust and an under 5's piece for Poole Lighthouse: Hansel and Gretel. What a joy! So have a lovely summer everyone until we meet again.
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