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Latest News 2013 Projects We are delighted to be working with the Dickens Museum on a live interpretation project to bring Dickens' House at Doughty Street in Bloomsbury to life. Our next performances are on May 18th. Please call the museum on 020 7405 2127 to book.  Spectrum actress Jane Cartwright hard at work in the ScullerySpectrum actors performed our Tudor show at the V and A in March! Spectrum actors were seen at the events to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the London Underground at the London Transport Museum and on the Metropolitan Line!  A new character joins our repertoire at the Old Royal Naval College - Nicholas Hawksmoor - first performances took place mid January!  We will back at the National Media Museum in Bradford in March and April - presenting William Taynton and Thomas Edison - watch this space for further details! Boulton and Watt will be at the Bank of England Museum in May and June. Our WW1 and WW2 workshops at Firepower are proving very popular with schools as the venue is so easily accessible from the M25 - please call us for more information or Annette at Firepower on 020 8855 7755 http://www.firepower.org.uk/index.php/education/ 2012 We were delighted to be back at the Imperial War Museum for Christmas with Radio Days - a tribute to WW2 radio entertainment. Follow this link to find out more:  Latest news from Wales Drama performances and workshops are now up and running at Chepstow Castle, Tretower Court, Blaenavon Heritage Centre and Blaenavon Ironworks and Caerphilly Castle! Firepower We are delighted to announce that we will be working with Firepower http://www.firepower.org.uk/ at Woolwich on a exciting range of WW1 and WW2 drama workshops from September 2012. Please contact us on 020 7735 9220 if you would like to book one of these sessions.  Our Munitions Worker as played by Vanessa HammickOver the Summer, Spectrum actors were seen at the National Media Museum in Bradford bringing the exhibits to life! Visitors met Eliza Kipling, model of Eadweard Muybridge, William Taynton selling the Baird 'televisor' and the father of electricity himself, Michael Faraday!  The Baird TelevisorWe are delighted to be collaborating with the Royal Albert Hall on their Victorian Experience Workshops and Tours. Join Spectrum actors and step back in time to the 1870s to experience the Royal Albert Hall through the eyes of both rich and poor! Tours started in September so follow the link below to find out more: Some of our team spent the summer at Down House in Kent, former home of Charles Darwin: Our Suffragettes performed on Saturday 14th July on Portobello Road as part of the INTRANSIT Arts Festival! Spectrum actors were seen at the Imperial College Festival on May 11th and 12th!  WW2 Outreach sessions coming soon! Teachers never fear! Although the Imperial War Museum may be closing for major renovations, we shall be offering some exciting new workshops on the Home Front, Evacuation and the Blitz. AVAILABLE FROM AUTUMN 2012 - call the office on 020 7735 9220 for more details! Spectrum is now in Wales! Following our successful bi-lingual workshop sessions launched this time last year at Chepstow Castle, CADW have asked Spectrum to further develop its programme at Blaenafon Ironworks. More news on these exciting ventures to follow! 2012 is the bi-centenary of the birth of Charles Dickens and we have several exciting new performance pieces to offer schools and public audiences. Please call the office for more details. Two new characters - Jean Pellicorne and The Young Archer made their debut at the Wallace Collection at the end of March A new show taking a humorous look at the history of the monarchy has been developed for the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich - first performances were a great success in March and more to come in May and June! New in Autumn 2011: The Maritime History Show - at the National Maritime Museum Dr Johnson appeared at Compton Verney A 'Hospitaller' character for the St John Museum at Clerkenwell Over the Summer, new characters Annie Besant and Charles Goss made their debut at the Bishopsgate Institute... plus two new Pirate shows came to the Museum of London Docklands........  ........and here's what the audience had to say: 'deeply silly and enormous fun - we learned a lot too!' 'it is suitable for all ages - there's something for everyone...we learned things we didn't know about pirates effortlessly....' The DNA Database Debate is now taking KS3 School bookings - come and see this exciting interactive and thought-provoking show at the Science Museum (Bookings Hotline 020 7942 4777) or alternatively book an Outreach visit by calling the Spectrum office. And here is what a teacher had to say after watching the show '....this drama provided a fabulous opportunity for my students to debate a contemporary issue - it was brilliant!'
From June, Spectrum crosses into new pastures with a workshop for Key Stage 2 at Chepstow Castle. In a new departure, Spectrum will be offering this session in English and Welsh and there are plans to extend this to Key Stage 3 as well as family audiences. Congratulations to Julie Gamble, now Spectrum's very own Arts Award Advisor! Julie worked on another very successful Leighton House drama project in April 2011.  In Spring 2011, new characters Yuri Gagarin and Mary Anne Galton came to the Science Museum, Alexis Soyer made his debut at the Florence Nightingale Museum and a major Pirate project started up at Museum of London Docklands! Plus we returned to perform at the fabulous Wellcome Collection on Euston Road. .JPG) Yuri Gagarin in action!Cockroach Tours of the Science Museum began in December and will go on until December 2011 - a chance for our audience to join Spectrum actors working in collaboration with Danish artists Superflex and experience life as a Cockroach - contact the Science Museum to take part! 'we really enjoyed the Cockroach Tour - it was original, intelligent, funny and brilliantly presented'   Sir James Thornhill appears in the Painted Hall of the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich - from 7th November!  Spectrum actors are regular performers at Science Museum Lates - the popular adults only evenings at the Science Museum on the last Wednesday of every month - recent topics include Bio-terrorism and STIs! We are delighted to be working with the Museum of the Order of St. John in the City - the museum opened officially at the beginning of November. At the end of September we were thrilled to be part of UNDER LONDON at Aldwych Underground Station - a project to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Blitz!  Throughout August the Leighton House Summer Drama School provided an opportunity for young people between the ages of 14 and 19 to devise a performance piece and learn new skills under the guidance of Spectrum actors - part of the Cultural Olympiad! Follow this link to see us in action.
Also in August Spectrum actors took on the roles of Landgirls and Farmers at 'The Wartime Farm' in the grounds of the Imperial War Museum joined on the farm by guest animal actors from the fabulous Surrey Docks City Farm!  ©IWMIn June and July we worked with the Royal Society as part of their Summer of Science programme at the Southbank Centre: http://www.royalsociety.org/summer-of-science Leighton House re-opened in Spring 2010 after refurbishment and Spectrum actors can be seen fronting the Ipod guided tour of the house Hans Sloane performed at The Old Operating Theatre at London Bridge in February Museum of London lower galleries open and Spectrum actors inhabit the new performance spaces with characters old and new - a Victorian Spice Seller, a Street Photographer and Mary Seacole to name but three! The Florence Nightingale Museum re-opened in May 2010 - Florence is now back at home again to celebrate the centenary of her death! A new Tudor character and education session launched at the Old Royal Naval College in early 2010 Madame de Pompadour's new French performance piece can be booked by school groups at the Wallace Collection December 2009 - Charles Dickens at Tower Bridge!
Hayward Morse and Richard Hodder played Charles Dickens throughout December 2009 In November 2009, CHANGE OF HEART - our show about the past, present and future of the heart - developed and written by Clive Greenwood in conjunction with the Royal College of Pathologists, toured Science Centres throughout the UK during Nationa<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt%</BODY></HTML> |
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Tariq Bhatti and Julie Gamble play investigative reporters Ronnie Merlot and Barbara Ballast who front the show!
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