61 stories by "Filskit Theatre"
Visit your local cinema these days and, among the listings for all the big budget blockbusters and rom-coms, you will start to notice an increasingly cultural feature " the theatre is coming…
There was a distinct lull in London recently. With August in full swing, the train carriages seemed a little emptier and the pavements less crowded. There was almost a feeling in the air tha…
"Your time may be limited, but your imagination is not" Anon This year the Imaginate Festival, Scotland's international festival of performing arts for children and young people, celebrated …
It's 11.34pm on a Monday night. One night owl Filskit Lady was getting ready to send our latest blog offering off to A Younger Theatre, when she came across a discussion on our Twitter feed …
Theatre Centre's latest offering for primary school children aged 9-11 is What the Thunder Said, a story that focuses on tackling violence and feelings of aggression. Whilst topic based thea…
Until recently, every funding application, mission statement and biography we have ever written has begun with the phrase "Filskit Theatre are a London based company…" but as we have grown…
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” H.E. Luccock The idea of collaborating can be a scary one. You know what you do and you have your own indi…
Last month we were treated to an online big bang kicked off by Bryony Kimmings’s I'll Show you mine blog. It has become clear through the online dialogue that even award-winning artist…
As an annual festival for children and young people, produced by Theatre Hullabaloo, Take Off promises to be "packed to the brim with fantastic shows from the UK and abroad to thrill and ins…
It has been a very busy couple of weeks for us here at Filskit Theatre. Not only have we begun our tour of The Feather Catcher but also we have managed to make time to see four incredibl…
For the past few weeks we Filskit Ladies have been a little off the radar. We've had performances and workshops aplenty so have been very busy, which is always a good thing. In the midst of …
We love to talk, Bob Hoskins said all those years ago, and it remains true today. We talk on the phone and chat on Skype. We listen to others talking, on the radio, online and on the TV, whe…
Filskit Theatre report from Theatre Centre’s Write Lines conference on writing for young audiences The Write Lines conference celebrated Theatre Centre’s sixtieth anniversary and…
Fringe work exists to be on the periphery of 'the main event'. It is the slightly eccentric, edgier brother to a Festival. It is where you will find a cross-section of the shoddy, the outrag…
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."Â "Â Albert Einstein Well, what a week it's been here at Filskit Theatre Company. Between the three of us we have s…
It feels fair to say that there has always been something of a strained relationship between politics and the arts. Whether it is in the form of brilliant disregard or manipulation, it someh…
This week we were lucky enough to be able to send a member of Filskit Theatre along to a very exciting event happening at our old Drama School. Every year Rose Bruford College holds a sympos…
Whilst perusing Twitter and Facebook, looking for a good topic to spark this week's blog we discovered a piece by AYT's own Jake Orr, in which he poses the question "What is the purpose of T…
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours." "Â Eric Idle Words. Funny things. They have the power to describe, to wound, to f…
“When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘…
Over the past few months we have found ourselves involved in a number of conversations about the current trend in theatre companies of producing adaptations of popular children’s books…
Until recently we at Filskit Theatre had never given much thought to the fact that we are an "all-female" company. The three founding members were brought together over a shared passion to c…
So here we are " 2013. All the chocolates have been eaten, the presents unwrapped, the Michael Bublé Christmas album placed back on the shelf for another year, and it’s time to go bac…
So Michael Rosen is talking about it. Jude Law is talking about it. Even Julian Lloyd Webber, Greyson Perry and Danny Boyle are in on the act. What is it that they are all gossiping about? T…
If you happened to be out and about in South East London at 5am last week, you may have spotted the three of us Filskit ladies bundling into an old BMW estate and heading north for the Take …
