Pilot Theatre

Pilot Theatre is an Arts Council England funded Theatre Company based in York, England. It was founded in 1981 by students from Bretton Hall College in Wakefield. The company was based in Wakefield and Castleford before moving to York in 2001.

The company is now based at York Theatre Royal. It tours work in the UK and internationally. The Artistic Director is Marcus Romer who has written and directed work for the company since 1995, working with teams that include composer Sandy Nuttgens and designer Ali Allen and Lighting Designer James Farncombe and AV design by Arnim Friess and more recently with KMA

They produced the International Indian Film Academy Awards opening sequence for stage and TV in 2007 at Sheffield Arena. This was in partnership with their new collaborators Kit Monkman and Tom Wexler from KMA who are also based in York.

They are part of the EU Culture 2000 funded programme called Magic-Net along with twelve other countries across Europe. The company has won three Manchester Evening News awards for Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, adapted by Nigel Williams, and Beautiful Thing, by Jonathan Harvey. Other work includes Sing yer heart out for the lads, by Roy Williams, Road by Jim Cartwright, Bloodtide by Melvin Burgess, The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, Mirad a Boy from Bosnia by Ad de Bont, Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton, Look Back In Anger by John Osborne, The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance, Fungus the Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs, The Twits by Roald Dahl and Looking for JJ and Antigone.[1]

They won the Manchester Evening News Award for best production for their tour of Lord of the Flies in 2001. The production was revived and a tour took place in 2008.[2]

Pilot Theatre have embraced new technologies both on and off stage. They built their production of Looking for JJ on MySpace and have the first UK Theatre hub in Second Life.

References

  1. ↑ "Roy Williams on Antigone: a play for today’s streets". theguardian.com. 19 September 2014.
  2. ↑ Liz Hoggard (8 October 2008). "Teenage rampage in Lord of the Flies". Evening Standard (London).

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