Cwmni Theatr Run Amok Theatre Company Manifesto

 

 

 

 

COMPANY NAME:

Run Amok 

 

Who Are We?

Run Amok is a Not-for-Profit Community Interest Company, with a commitment to Welsh theatre and communities from Cardiff and the surrounding area.

 

What Do We Do?

Run Amok aims to create high-quality stagings of contemporary plays and modern re-imaginings of classic texts. We also facilitate outreach work with each project in the form of workshops which focus on critical and creative engagement with theatre texts.

What Are Our Company’s Aims?

• Run Amok aims to produce original and provocative stagings of dramatic texts with a focus on the contemporary world. 

• As a Wales-founded and bilingual theatre company, Run Amok seeks to inform audiences of its rich cultural and theatrical history, identity and language. 

• Engaging with local schools and charities both in and outside of Wales, Run Amok believe in the power of community engagement within the process of creating theatre, and in creating opportunities for younger theatre-makers.

 

Our History

Run Amok was formed in 2013 by Izzy Rabey and Jonathan Patton in Aberystwyth. Shortly after the company was formed, Run Amok was made an associate theatre company of Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Since its creation and initial productions at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Run Amok has toured productions to Cardiff (Chapter Arts Centre and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama’s Richard Burton Theatre), London (The Rosemary Branch Theatre) and Windsor (The Firestation). Run Amok have consistently ensured that cast members and directors provided workshops in local schools in both the Welsh and English language on their touring productions. In 2014, they were fortunate to have Welsh dramatist Ed Thomas write two new monologues as part of an online marketing campaign (in collaboration with Welsh arts media company Culture Colony) for their production of his early play Flowers of The Dead Red Sea (funded by Arts Council Wales in association with Aberystwyth Arts Centre), which toured to both Cardiff and London. The company have recently experienced critical recognition for their 2013-2014 production of 4:48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane in the article Sing Without Hope, Tender With Trust by Dr Cristina Dalgado-Garcia, featured in the programme notes for The Royal Opera House’s own production of 4:48 Psychosis (2016): 

‘Young Welsh company Run Amok made original decisions in their 2013 production (4:48 Psychosis)…both in terms of gender and context. Under the direction of Izzy Rabey, Rhodri Brady focused on the spirituality, pathos and delirious humour of Kane’s text, while the set situated obsession and disappointment within a hyper-connected yet solipsistic generation’

 

The company are now located primarily in Cardiff, where Artistic Director Izzy Rabey has become a Trainee Director at The Other Room Theatre and an Applied Drama facilitator for Valley and Vale Community Arts. Despite the move from Aberystwyth to Cardiff, the company still maintain contact and provide updates on their current projects for Aberystywyth Arts Centre. Run Amok aims to produce original and provocative stagings of dramatic texts with a focus on the contemporary world. As a Wales-founded and bilingual theatre company, Run Amok seeks to inform audiences of its rich cultural and theatrical history, identity and language. Engaging with local schools and charities both in and outside of Wales, Run Amok believe in the power of community engagement within the process of creating theatre, and in ensuring opportunities for younger theatre-makers to engage with professional actors and directors working within the company.

 

 

 

CONTACT DETAILS:

 

Co-Artistic Director Izzy Rabey: izzy.rabey@gmail.com

Co-Artistic Director Nerida Bradley: nerida@otherroomtheatre.com