Spaniel In The Works actors have a wealth of experience of museum theatre and drama performances at venues including the Science Museum, Natural History Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, Wallace Collection and Apsley House.
For Gloucestershire teachers and other organisations, we have a wide ranging programme of educational theatre events at the Museum in the Park in Stroud.
These performances are available as part of a museum visit or can visit your school.
We can also create performances expressly to suit your needs from solo gallery characters to shows on given themes.
Performances are designed to be for the widest audience possible and are suitable for general public and school groups.
For costs and other information please click on the pictures above.
Museum
Theatre
New for 2011
Forgotten Sporting
Heroes of Gloucestershire
New performances looking at
people with a sporting connection
to Gloucestershire
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Housed in a Grade II 17th century wool merchant's mansion in Stratford Park in Stroud, the Museum in the Park is home to a collection of objects and displays celebrating the rich history and heritage of the Stroud District.
The museums education department have developed a wide and varied curriculum-centred programme of events which focus on the museums collection and the history of the Stroud area.
Many of these events were developed with Spaniel In The Works and there is now a unique programme of drama based events suitable for schools.
Some performances and workshops are now available to schools as an outreach programme which we can bring to your school.
For more information and costs please download the brochure by clicking the symbol
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Since 2006, Spaniel in the Works have worked closely with Gloucestershire Archives and created a number of performances.
These performances are available for schools, colleges and other venues.
For more details please click on the picture
Inhuman Traffic
Performance to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in 2009
Forgotten Sporting Heroes
of Gloucestershire
Two new performances for the Olympics looking at people with a sporting connection to Gloucestershire
Fish, Fykes and Ferries
Performance as part of the award winning Severn Project created in 2009
Created as part of the award winning River Severn Project for Gloucestershire Archives, Fish, Fykes and Ferries is a multicharacter performance with 5 different characters who each have a different connection with the river.
Each of the characters is based on archive research.
The performance is available to schools and other venues - for more information please contact us
Created in 2007 to commemorate the abolition of the slave trade, Inhuman Traffic is a four person performance looking at the historical and modern perspectives of slavery.
Four characters each tell their own stories relating to the inhuman treatment of slaves. These characters are:
The four characters each relate their own stories which interweave to give an overview of slavery and associated issues and an opportunity to compare historical and modern day slavery.
This performance is available for schools and other venues, please contact us for further details
"Wonderful writing and excellent performances!"
- Audience member
Despite only living to the age of 25, Aubrey Beardsley was one of the most notorious artists of the late 19th century.
His illustrations and erotic drawings for works such as Oscar Wilde's Salome and the infamous Yellow Book shocked Victorian sensibilities.
This 30 minute performance looks at Beardsley's short life, his work and his friendship with Oscar Wilde which both established and almost destroyed his career.
Oscar & Aubrey was first performed at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Costs per performance
£ 200.00
(Excluding travel and overnight accomodation where necessary)
Developed from a shorter performance for the Natural History Museum, this 45 minute solo performance looks at the life and work of Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and his creation of a binomial system of plant classification.
From his childhood fascination with plants and animals to his journeys through Sweden and his flora and fauna collecting, this performance uses the poetry of his own language to reveal his character and the complexities of the natural world.
£ 100.00
First performed at Apsley House, as part of Waterloo Weekend, A Near Run Thing is a unique two man retelling of the battle.
During the one hour performance the two actors bring to life the characters and events of the battle from the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon to ordinary British, French and Prussian soldiers.
The performance explores the carnage and devastation as well as the heroics and excitement of one of the most famous battles in history.
£ 200.00 per performance
(excludes travel and overnight accommodation where required)
First performed at the Museum of London this 45 minute solo performance looks at the infamous life of thief and jail-breaker
Jack Sheppard.
Notorious as the only man to escape from
Newgate Jail three times, traditional songs
are incorporated to reveal his life, from his
early small thefts to his battle with Jonathan Wilde, the thief-taker and his tragic death on the gallows as a national hero.
This performance is available to schools and other venues.
Tommy Atkins and the Canary Girl is a one hour performance offering an emotional look at a family's life during the First World War.
Based on archive records, this dramatic, emotional, sometimes funny performance focuses on the lives of the workers at the Gloucester munitions factory and local soldiers during the First World War.
The performance looks at the hardships endured by soldiers in the trenches and the largely untold story of the changes to the lives of the women back home "in blighty".
Future Performances
Jenner Museum, Berkeley -
November 11th 2011 7.30 p.m.
Tickets - £ 8.00/£ 6.00 (Concessions)
(includes glass of wine or juice)
Box Office 01453 816031
Can you tell your Arp from your Miro?
Does the concept of conceptual art confuse you?
What do you deduce from Dada and Dali?
Op art? Pop art? Fauvism? Surrealism?
What does it all mean?
WHAT IS ART?
"Leading art critics" Bernard Beardsley and Beatrice Botticelli are here to answer these and other questions in this lively, funny, sometimes irreverant 45 minute performance, looking at the history of modern art from Duchamps urinal to Damien's cow.
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Spaniel In The Works Theatre Co. Ltd, 10, Belmont Road, Stroud, GL5 1HH Contact info: Tel:01453 751823 Mob: 0794 1284878 Mail:info_spanielworks.co.uk
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