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A Small Town Anywhere
Image: A Small Town Anywhere Photographer: Briony Campbell
Coney is an agency of adventure that makes play, which is live, responsive, interactive and participatory, using whatever comes to hand and casting the audience in the leading role. Events start when audiences first hear about them and only end when they stop thinking about them.
Coney projects take place wherever people are, with recent projects happening online, in a theatre, in museums, public space and in a school. Coney’s A Small Town Anywhere, is a play which features no actors at all. Instead, the town Coney build inside the theatre space is peopled by a playing audience, who have complete agency over the outcome of their particular town’s story.
Coney’s recent school project, A Cat Escapes saw a class of 8 year olds taking part in a 6-week narrative adventure. Each week the class would receive and email or letter from a kidnapped cat. The weekly ‘chapters’ of the story featured challenges which allowed the children to help the cat escape its captors, as well as covering a wide range of curriculum learning topics.
Coney is currently developing A Cat Escapes, consulting on a interactive broadcast project, developing an adventure for Tate Britain and making an adventure about contemporary art.
Coney is soon launching its first Adventure Lottery, where the winner will receive a weekend-long adventure, designed exclusively for them and inspired by their personal interests and dreams – for more info email adventurelottery@youhavefoundconey.net
An important pointer to how theatre is developing Will Gompertz, BBC Arts Editor
Coney projects take place wherever people are, with recent projects happening online, in a theatre, in museums, public space and in a school. Coney’s A Small Town Anywhere, is a play which features no actors at all. Instead, the town Coney build inside the theatre space is peopled by a playing audience, who have complete agency over the outcome of their particular town’s story.
Coney’s recent school project, A Cat Escapes saw a class of 8 year olds taking part in a 6-week narrative adventure. Each week the class would receive and email or letter from a kidnapped cat. The weekly ‘chapters’ of the story featured challenges which allowed the children to help the cat escape its captors, as well as covering a wide range of curriculum learning topics.
Coney is currently developing A Cat Escapes, consulting on a interactive broadcast project, developing an adventure for Tate Britain and making an adventure about contemporary art.
Coney is soon launching its first Adventure Lottery, where the winner will receive a weekend-long adventure, designed exclusively for them and inspired by their personal interests and dreams – for more info email adventurelottery@youhavefoundconey.net
An important pointer to how theatre is developing Will Gompertz, BBC Arts Editor
Understatedly audacious… as complex and electrifying as any actor-based drama. Time Out Critics Choice Theatre
Very clever, very creative and very in tune with the fundamentals of the human need to find, explore and inhabit story. Emma Rice, Artistic Director, Kneehigh Theatre
Tassos Stevens
Tassos Stevens is a runner and co-director of Coney, rumoured to have been involved in most of their work. He did a doctorate in Psychology, was an award-winning theatre director and scratch producer of new theatre, before falling down a rabbithole. He’s currently occupied in researching emotional resilience in teenagers for an interactive broadcast project, designing an audio-only iPhone game, developing an adventure for families, and plotting playful interventions in public spaces around the world. He blogs irregularly at allplayall.blogspot.com, and recently spoke at Playful ’09, Arts Council Decibel and RSA State of the Arts.
Tassos Stevens is a runner and co-director of Coney, rumoured to have been involved in most of their work. He did a doctorate in Psychology, was an award-winning theatre director and scratch producer of new theatre, before falling down a rabbithole. He’s currently occupied in researching emotional resilience in teenagers for an interactive broadcast project, designing an audio-only iPhone game, developing an adventure for families, and plotting playful interventions in public spaces around the world. He blogs irregularly at allplayall.blogspot.com, and recently spoke at Playful ’09, Arts Council Decibel and RSA State of the Arts.
Production information
Touring Productions:
A Small Town Anywhere
Responsive projects Coney has created adventures for organisations including the National Theatre London, the Dublin Fringe Festival and for London International Festival of Theatre. Responsive projects can vary in form, scale and duration depending on context, approaches that a partner might seek to explore, and participants. Coney can also undertake initial research and development work to explore ideas, relationships and potential as a step towards agreeing the scope of a larger project.
Touring Productions:
A Small Town Anywhere
Responsive projects Coney has created adventures for organisations including the National Theatre London, the Dublin Fringe Festival and for London International Festival of Theatre. Responsive projects can vary in form, scale and duration depending on context, approaches that a partner might seek to explore, and participants. Coney can also undertake initial research and development work to explore ideas, relationships and potential as a step towards agreeing the scope of a larger project.
Company contact
Tim Jones, Producer
T +44 (0)20 7617 7746
Email tim@youhavefoundconey.net
Web www.youhavefoundconey.net
Tim Jones, Producer
T +44 (0)20 7617 7746
Email tim@youhavefoundconey.net
Web www.youhavefoundconey.net
