Awarded — The Play Park
The Play Park is a pilot residency programme for mid-career theatre makers which takes shape around ideas and acts of ‘thresholding’ – finding, inhabiting and expanding the edge between forms of practice, physical environments, species, social spaces, and gestures of communication.
It will be led by practitioners who work on and across boundaries of theatre, dance, literature, visual arts and film, and whose own investigations have produced new forms of storytelling, interspecies collaboration and ethical reorientation. There will also be individual dialogues and facilitated movement, object manipulation and environmental research workshops on and around the Cove Park site.
Originally devised by Ruth Little and Catrin Kemp, The Play Park is directed by dramaturgical lead, Lu Kemp and Cove Park’s Programmes & Communications Producer, Alex Marrs. They are joined by eight facilitators leading workshops on puppetry, movement, storytelling, interdisciplinary practice, and more.
The Play Park is made possible with support from the Foyle Foundation and Garrick Charitable Trust.
