In preparation for 2024

THE GREAT PILGRIMAGE - a piece of verbatim microtheatre created for indoor and outdoor settings, about the Great Pilgrimage of 1913, when women from all over the country marched on London to campaign for Women's Suffrage. 

ALGERNON SWINBURNE'S HAT - an indoor show designed for festival contexts, about the hat that the poet Algernon Swinburne lost overboard from a cross-channel packet in 1867. Being developed by Matt Fletcher and Thomas Jancis

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2023

October - STAGE DOOR JOHNNIES - a re-staging of this microtheatre piece as a performance presentation at the British Music Hall Society conference at the Cinema Museum, Kennington, London

September - THE MILL ABOVE SOKE BRIDGE - a piece of verse microtheatre commissioned for Heritage Open Days 2023 and performed at City Mill, a National Trust property at the heart of Winchester, marking the mill's transformation, in 1931, into the first Youth Hostel in the South of England

July - BEING HERE - a durational street performance for the Winchester Hat Fair which, in attempting to calculate the city's latitude and the circumference of the Earth, honours and celebrates the pioneering achievements of Eratosthenes, Pytheas of Massalia, and Messrs. Delambre and Mechain

June - SUDDENLY SANDOR (IS STANDING BESIDE ME) (Veszprem/Balaton, Hungary) - a series of durational psychogeographic actions (as part of European Capital of Culture 2023) marking the bicentenary of the birth of Sandor Petofi, Hungary's national poet

 

2022 

September - EMPTY VESSEL (Kaunas, Lithuania) - a durational series of actions performed at the city's Fluxus Festival (as part of European Capital of Culture 2022), inspired by an event score of George Brecht, and honouring the life and work of George Maciunas

July - STAGE DOOR JOHNNIES (Winchester, UK) - street micro-theatre celebrating the golden age of Music Hall, taking its inspiration from a specific Variety bill on the Central Pier, Morecambe, in July 1902  

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2021

April and ongoing - THE PLAY OF KING ALFRED (Winchester, UK) - street micro-theatre in a Mummers style, to mark the 1150th anniversary of Alfred the Great's accession to the throne of a fledgling England in the year 871

 

2020

December - THE LARK ASCENDING (Shirehampton, Bristol, UK) - to commemorate the centenary of the first performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams' iconic musical work

October - FOOLS CIRCEL 9WYS (Canterbury, UK) - a ritual performance to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Riddley Walker  by Russell Hoban

September - THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON (Bristol, UK) - a poetic walk to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Thomas Chatterton's untimely demise

August and ongoing - OUTDOOR ODES (various locations) - poetic recitation in public places 

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2019

September - TO AUTUMN (Winchester, UK) - a poetic walk to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the writing of the poem by John Keats

June - TELEGRAPH (Southampton, UK) - a performance walk between stations of Murray's 19th Century 

shutter telegraph system

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2018

July and ongoing - CROW (various locations) - street micro-theatre concerning orthodromic geometry (script published in Billinghurst et al. (Eds.), 2020. Walking Bodies. Triarchy Press)

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2017

August - AMBULANCE (Edinburgh, UK) - three healing walks out of Edinburgh, carrying a spade

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Projects initiated by cross-media ensemble ARTIFICE, out of whom emerged OUT THERE ACTIONS:-

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Since 2006 and ongoing

THE BUTLERS (various locations, nationally and internationally) - ongoing exploration of participatory and relational performance structures, in which immaculately dressed Butlers offer their altruistic and solicitous services at festivals, conferences and other events (nominated for a Total Theatre Award in 2012)

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Since 1999 and ongoing

THE SOUTHAMPTON MUMMERS' PLAY (Southampton, UK) - a traditional New Year community celebration, now in its 24th year!