Eastern Angles
Eastern Angles
England, South East
Artform
Drama
Organisation Type
Touring Venue
Contact
For any further information please contact our General Manager, Jessica Baker on jess@easternangles.co.uk or ring the main office 01473 218202.
You can access information about Eastern Angles on our website www.easternangles.co.uk
Eastern Angles is the regional touring theatre company for the East of England. We create theatre with a sense of place, increasingly with community engagement, participation and learning as important elements of that work, and visiting around sixty different venues each year. Formed in 1982, Eastern Angles has blazed a trail across the East of England, becoming a national model of excellence for rural touring before expanding to include national touring, Edinburgh Festival visits, site-specific work and community engagement.
Our varied programme reaches people who would otherwise have no access to professional theatre, and currently includes a community tour to village halls with new writing from the region, special projects and development work in Peterborough, site-based performances in heritage sites, and a Christmas show. Where the opportunity provides, we also tour shows nationally.
Eastern Angles is a theatre company with a unique mission to create theatre with sense of place. In the past we have created musical documentary plays featuring the voices of herring fisherman, farmworkers, firefighters, brewers, jockeys, warehouse workers and most recently British Asian taxi drivers in Peterborough and Ipswich. We produce plays with a sense of place in our diverse touring theatre programme and our new arts & heritage hub, The Eastern Angles Centre, is a thriving resource offering creative activities to Ipswich residents of all ages.
After twenty-five years of touring rural communities, we turned our hand to urban development in Peterborough and found we liked it. We have put on over a dozen shows there, performing in small community spaces, the Key Theatre Studio, a marquee at Flag Fen archaeological site (Dark Earth, a community play with 40 performers) and the Undercroft of a shopping mall at Serpentine Green (River Lane, a community play with 80 community performers).
We also tour to other parts of the country. I Caught Crabs in Walberswick played at The Bush and I Heart Peterborough at Soho Theatre. Both plays by Joel Horwood got great reviews in Edinburgh and London. Parkway Dreams toured to New Towns around the M25. During Spring 2022 we will be taking out a national tour The Ballad of Maria Marten (4 stars from The Guardian) to mid-scale venues across the country.
We run our own Spektrix box-office system, selling tickets for our self-promoted market town performances, our larger site-specific shows, our Christmas shows and visiting companies using the Sir John Mills Theatre (in Ipswich) and The Undercroft (in Peterborough).
We have our own 300-seat mobile raked seating system as well as a geodesic dome. This allows us to create variously configured auditoriums in halls, barns and found spaces and hire our seating / Dome out to other organisations.