spectrum drama - leaders in educational and museum drama since 1987
Spectrum Drama have been leaders in historic and contemporary drama for museums, schools, theatres and corporate events since 1987

See us at work

Spectrum can be seen today in leading venues around the UK. Recent clients include the BBC, Business Link Bedfordshire, the Discovery Channel, the Imperial War Museum, High Wycombe Museum, Linley Sambourne House, London's Transport Museum, Manchester Museum of Science and Industry,the Museum in Docklands, the Museum of London, the Natural History Museum, Ragged School Museum, Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the Science Museum.

Call us on 020 7735 9220 and we'll be happy to help with your immediate requirements or future projects.

You can also email us  - just click  the link below:

mailto:enquiries@spectrumdrama.com

 

The team

Spectrum has been running for 22 years and currently includes a team of over 60 highly experienced actors plus researchers, writers,  costumiers, set and prop designers and makers and AV experts. 

Within the company we have actors, singers, dancers, musicians, mask, mime and circus performers.  Many of our actors are also qualified teachers.

Spectrum's three artistic directors are Richard Hodder, Suzanne Rayner and Colin Uttley. The trio have been associated with Spectrum for over a decade and have a wealth of experience in both theatre and museums.

Mary Seacole Spectrum's Mary Seacole


Spectrum on tour

Throughout the year, Spectrum actors travel the length and breadth of the UK performing in museums, galleries, historic houses and theatres.

We have taken many of our performances overseas -  most recently to the United States, Sweden, Hungary and Japan.

Recently, one of our most popular scripts was performed in Australia as 'Push Harder Mr Jones' is seen at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

©The Science Museum

Autumn 2008 and Tom Crean appears at the Barrow Dock Museum as part of their Summer events programme

 


Some images of our actors at work

May 2008 and Spectrum actors promote the Culture 24 Routemaster bus for the London Museums Hub

© London Museums Hub



'Pieces of the Sun' - the story of Marie Curie

Mr Beaver encounters the White Witch in 'Tales from Narnia'
at the Imperial War Museum

John Deman can be seen throughout the year at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich

Ada Lovelace beside Babbage's Difference Engine at the Science Museum



Every weekend between March and December, Spectrum actors can be found re-creating Victorian life at Linley Sambourne House in London's Kensington



Vi the 1940s Clippie at London's Transport Depot



Joe Brown - Greenwich Pensioner at the Old Royal Naval College




Mary Seacole tells her story at the Florence Nightingale Museum

 © NHM

NEWS

Here is just a selection of our projects for 2009:

As part of the Science Museum's Centenary celebrations, Spectrum has developed a new gallery character and performance piece - the story of Rosalind Franklin - exploring her role in the discovery of the structure of DNA.  The role will premiere at the end of June.

In November 2009, our show about the history (and future!) of the heart, developed in conjunction with the Royal College of Pathology will tour the UK during National Pathology Week - tour dates to be announced soon!


STOP PRESS!  Lost in the Field of Blackbirds, our play about the Balkans War of the 1990s, can now be seen on You Tube.

Click on this link:

http://www.youtube.com/user/kingsinlondon



From 26th March, a Spectrum actor in role as Charles Darwin can be seen at his former home, Down House in Kent.

In association with the English Heritage site, schools and other groups will be able to talk to the man himself and find out about his trip on the Beagle, his family, worms, beetles and his 'Big Idea'!

  

Linley Sambourne House Video Project now online!

Click on the link below to see Spectrum actors bringing this  wonderful house to life:

http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/linleysambournehouse/general/default.asp


Spectrum actors can be regularly seen performing and acting as comperes for events at the Dana Centre, South Kensington - click the link for more information

http://danacentre.org.uk

Darwin at the Zoo!

For half term only, 14th - 22nd February 2009, visitors had the chance to follow a Spectrum actor in role as Charles Darwin, as he toured the Zoo and talked through some of the key aspects of his work.

http://zsl.org

There Be Treasure!
An exciting venture with The National Maritime Museum which gives children a chance to see and hold rare artefacts from events in the past. Discover what the real pirates were like from their own diaries or witness the struggles of the people who forged the North West Passage and went with Shackleton to the Antarctic. As well as looking at the documentary evidence, the children then meet a real pirate or Tom Crean who served with 'The Boss' on the Trans Antarctic Expedition.

http://nmm.ac.uk

Other recent projects have included:

Remembrance 90


The BBC marks the 90th anniversary of the end of the World War One with a series of specially commissioned television and radio programmes,free local events and online and mobile content.

Spectrum actors appeared in role as characters from WW1 at the Imperial War Museum on  November 8th for a day filled with activities for all the family.  Two new WW1 roles joined our repertoire - a Munitions Worker and a soldier from the West Indies Regiment.

WW1 Munitions Worker by the 'Ole Bill bus

Yugoslavia - Lost in the Field of Blackbirds


This powerful performance piece has been produced in conjunction with King's College Archives and toured between September and December 2008.  It can now be seen on You Tube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/kingsinlondon

Supported by The Big Lottery Fund and MLA London

       

Annie Darwin

Favourite daughter of Charles, Annie tragically died at only 10 years old but you can hear her story in this drama piece incorporating a life-size puppet.

©NHM

From October 2008 at the Natural History Museum

http://www.nhm.ac.uk

Sir Richard Wallace

Meet Sir Richard Wallace and join him on a tour of the Wallace Collection in Manchester Square.

From October 2008

http://www.wallacecollection.org

At the Museum in Docklands during Black History Month:

Nanny of the Maroons

Meet Nanny and hear the amazing story.She has
been described as a fierce military leader in
1740's Jamaica.She is known for her resistance,
for out-witting the British Army and for leading
many Africans to freedom.

© Museum in Docklands

Ruth Belville

Find our about the history of time from
our new character at the Royal
Observatory Greenwich

http://www.nmm.ac.uk

'Flo on the Road'

Our fabulous Florence Nightingale can still be found 5 days a week during term-time at the Florence Nightingale Museum but she has become so popular that she can now come to your school or college too!  Please contact Katie at the Florence Nightingale Museum for more details of how to book a visit from the great lady herself:

http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk

Actress Julie Gamble as Flo!


Other news

'Victorian Delights'


Join our actors for an entertaining evening of songs, stories and a demonstration of an original Magic Lantern and an Edison phonograph.

Call or e-mail the Spectrum office if you would like to book us for your special event.



Our film of 'Runaways - Africa Stories' a Spectrum/Spacedog Production for Lambeth Archives has won an Archives Landmark Award - congratulations to writer Gabrielle Bourn, actor Willan Shombe and all the creative team!

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Spectrum are delighted to be the resident theatre company at London's Transport Museum which re-opened after major re-furbishment in November 2007

London's Transport Museum

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Our wartime Wizard of Oz played to crowds of families in December 2007

Imperial War Museum

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Spectrum actors performed at the Manchester International Festival as part of THE GREAT INDOORS. They collaborated with the University of Salford to present 'Beautiful Music, Horrible Sounds'
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