As part of Sparkfest 2021, the David Glass Ensemble will be presenting a scratch performance of our new piece "Silence" as well as a workshop "The Authentic Voice" SILENCE Thursday 20th May Performance at 7.30pm...
Read moreThe David Glass Ensemble are delighted to receive an award from the Cultural Recovery Grant that will help us build our capacity to work with key theatre & arts organisations in Bristol, Bath, Exeter, Eastleigh...
Read moreAt the David Glass Ensemble, we believe that creativity sits at the heart of how organisations work, how communities achieve wellbeing and how people and communities reach their full potential. “David Glass Ensemble is...
Read moreAt the David Glass Ensemble, we believe that creativity sits at the heart of how organisations work, how communities achieve wellbeing and how people and communities reach their full potential. “David Glass Ensemble is...
Read moreDates: April 8-11, 2021 Time: 9.30am - 2.30pm UK / 17.30 - 22.30pm HK (with breaks) Cost: £200 / £180 Concession (with a valid student ID) Participation will be capped at 20 students. To sign...
Read more28th June - 7th August 2021 Athens, Greece David Glass Ensemble Learning and JEUDi present Alchemy of the Extraordinary, a 6-week intensive training in Creative Practice and Devised Theatre. APPLY FOR A...
Read moreBlog by Finn Boyle The American 1975 shark-centred horror film Jaws was released to the public proudly declaring; “Soon you’ll be afraid to go in the water”. The threat of an incident – one...
Read moreBy Pablo Laguna who played Delbert Grady in Bath Spa Productions/David Glass Ensemble performance of 'Shining' On the afternoon of the 17th March we were told that the six remaining performances of Shining were...
Read moreBy Simon Gleave As I write, Korina is pacing back and forth in the apartment unfolding and refolding clothes, unpacking then organising then dusting then repacking corners, moving chairs to make space then cleaning...
Read moreThank you for your interest in bringing Requiem for Change to your school. This vital production has been developed internationally by young performers whose lives will be affected by the choices and actions we are taking—or...
Read moreBlog post by Brennan Tutterrow At the end of last year, I was working as the Assistant Director on Mayhem: A Post Punk Apocalopera with the David Glass Ensemble. Being inspired by Chuck Palahniuk’s...
Read moreBy Marja Vuori, theatre director I was welcomed generously into the rehearsal room of remounting Bleak House by both the cast and creatives who gave me their support and embraced my contribution to the project....
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Blog by Simon Gleave who plays Tulkinghorn & John Jarndyce
What is the Ensemble’s Bleak House?
By Joseph Lynch, Associate Artist & Trainer As the last of the dust from the summer sun starts to settle and the weather warnings of flash floods and hard-core drizzle begin bombarding UK screens once...
Read moreHow did the idea of reimaging Bleak House come about? I saw Mike Alfreds Shared Experience version back in 1975 and had also read the book. Theatrically speaking, it was inspiring as well as thematically a...
Read moreBleak House is a powerfully physical, gothic retelling of the Dickens’ novel that follows Esther Summerson’s search for family and identity set against a brutal legal system hell bent on destroying those beneath it. Pickpockets, prostitutes rowdy drunks...
Read moreBy Finn Boyle, Associate Artist As the echoes of gunshots faded into memory on that March afternoon in Christchurch, international media danced in dervishes around the identity of the Breivik wannabe rotting in a holding...
Read moreBy Simon Gleave, Associate Artist and Trainer The train is pulling out of Siena, a walled city in Tuscany, leaving behind a few sweaty, smokey, coffee- stained delegates to take the AB project and...
Read moreby Aleksandra Pejic (AB Project: Serbia participant) PROLOGUE Any thoughts or dreams? The rain. Heart shaped island. Negligence. Anger. Facts versus feelings. Passion. Buzzing cellphones without owners. Rubber boots. Music from the movie ’Requiem...
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