Company Of Angels Relaunches Under New Name Boundless Theatre
By: BWW News Desk Oct. 28, 2016
New Artistic Director Rob Drummer today announces the relaunch of Company of Angels as Boundless Theatre along with his first production as Artistic Director - Natives by Glenn Waldron which opens at Southwark Playhouse in March 2017.
On announcing the relaunch Rob Drummer said, "It's with huge excitement that we today relaunch Company of Angels under its new name Boundless Theatre. We feel the word Boundless perfectly reflects our ambition to present bold, fearless and enterprising theatre without limits and to break down barriers to engagement and access. It also seems appropriate that as an international company, based in a post-Brexit UK, we choose a name that reflects our commitment to working with partners from all around the world. In light of this, I am delighted that my first production as Artistic Director - Natives by Glenn Waldron - is a global story which follows three teenagers in three different continents."
For fifteen years, Boundless Theatre has produced and toured new plays, nationally and internationally and created projects and experiences that young adult audiences share in. It nurtures and empowers the next generation of artists, brings plays, diverse perspectives and ideas from Europe and engages with a range of artistic forms beyond theatre-making.
Its award-winning productions have included Hannah and Hanna (which toured to India, Malaysia and Phillipines), Truckstop, Apples and in 2015, with the Young Vic and New Wolsey Theatre, it co-produced the critically acclaimed World Factory, developed by METIS.
Current Boundless Theatre programmes include a partnership with Théâtre National de Toulouse and Théâtre National de Belgique introducing 14-16 year olds to contemporary plays in translation, and a collaboration with Drama Centre London providing guidance to its MA Dramatic Writing students on how to write for young audiences. Over the course of the next year, Boundless Theatre will also work with an advisory group of 15-25 year olds who reflect the audience and artists it works with. This group will be engaged in every aspect of the company's work and will be a vital influence on decisions that are made relating to programming, artistic development and the wider work of the company.
Since 2001, over 50 organisations, embassies, cultural institutes, trusts and foundation have funded Boundless Theatres' work and between 2015 and 2016 it attracted over 5,000 audience members and participants, of which more than 10% were outside of the UK. All of this takes place with a core team of just two full-time and three part-time staff.
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Rob Drummer joined Boundless Theatre in July 2016 as Artistic Director. He previously worked with Company of Angels as co-director on the company's production of Sense by Anja Hilling at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA), alongside Andrea Ferran. He was a mentor to emerging playwrights from the UK, Germany, Netherlands and Norway on the European Writers' Lab component of Company of Angels' Theatre Café Festival. Prior to becoming Artistic Director of Boundless Theatre he was Associate Dramaturg at the Bush Theatre where he ran the Literary Department and was responsible for all playwriting work including the commissioning and development of new plays for production. He has established ongoing partnerships with Playwrights of New York (PoNY), delivered projects with Kudos Film & Television and established a partnership with Drama Centre London and Oberon Books on the Student Guide To Writing: Playwriting. Before joining the Bush Drummer was the first Literary Manager for HighTide Festival Theatre where he supported the expansion of the festival, doubling the number of productions and for HighTide he also directed Eisteddfod, Endless Poem and Perish. As a Dramaturg and Director he has worked with playwrights at theatres including the National Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Contact, York Theatre Royal and Theatre503. He was one of the first recipients of an Artists' International Development Fund from the Arts Council and British Council and spent time working in South Africa with playwrights and theatre makers at the Baxter and Market Theatres.
About Natives
Natives by Glenn Waldron runs at Southwark Playhouse on from 29 March - 22 April 2017, directed by Boundless Theatre Artistic Director Rob Drummer.
"It's there. It's right there for the taking. So why not just take it? Take the power they have given us."
In a nothingy-town, a young man finds love and death on a wasteland. In an exclusive island community, a young woman plans the ultimate birthday surprise. And, across the globe, a fourteen year-old computer nerd becomes an unlikely hero.
Three teenagers. Three continents. One average, life-altering day.
It's time to fall in love. Time to leave your old self behind. Time to party.
Let's burn it all down... The Natives have arrived.
Glenn Waldron's first play, Forever House premiered at The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth. A former Editor of i-D magazine, Waldron has written for a variety of publications including the New York Times, Vogue, W magazine, Wallpaper*, The Guardian, Another, Nylon and 10 Magazine and held various at-large positions include Contributing Menswear Editor for The Independent, Style Director for Arena and Contributing Features Editor at Fantastic Man magazine.
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Photo Credit - Christian Sinibaldi
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