A series of land art workshops for Norwich Theatre Royal
'Royal Soil with Norwich Theatres' focuses our attention on the earth and subterranean spaces beneath the theatre building, a space largely invisible and over looked but still an active agent in the building's structure, a foundation for the theatre's day to day operations. During the workshop a carpet of white sheets cover the floor and participants use an assortment of mud, coffee grounds, sticks and leaves to make prints, marks and shapes on to the fabric.
Using a small pot of soil borrowed from a near-by green space (Chapelfield Gardens), families illustrated plays and performance they'd watched at Norwich Theatre, such as Jack and the Beanstalk, Tiger Who Came to Tea. We imagined also what life exists underneath us in the soils, worms and moles maybe, and illustrated these on to fabric. We drew a cross-section of sediment and filled the space with roman pots, bones and treasure.
The activity underneath us, in the soils, reflects the dramas above ground, on the stage.
'Royal Soil with Norwich Theatres' focuses our attention on the earth and subterranean spaces beneath the theatre building, a space largely invisible and over looked but still an active agent in the building's structure, a foundation for the theatre's day to day operations. During the workshop a carpet of white sheets cover the floor and participants use an assortment of mud, coffee grounds, sticks and leaves to make prints, marks and shapes on to the fabric.
Using a small pot of soil borrowed from a near-by green space (Chapelfield Gardens), families illustrated plays and performance they'd watched at Norwich Theatre, such as Jack and the Beanstalk, Tiger Who Came to Tea. We imagined also what life exists underneath us in the soils, worms and moles maybe, and illustrated these on to fabric. We drew a cross-section of sediment and filled the space with roman pots, bones and treasure.
The activity underneath us, in the soils, reflects the dramas above ground, on the stage.
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