In the Bag...

Rebecca Fifield, Theatre Maker, Director, Writer, Storyteller and Creative Practitioner:

• Devising, writing and directing  shows for children.

• Storytelling: writing, adapting and performing regular story sessions.

• Designing and delivering  workshops. 

I work in a physical, sensory way: creating work for audiences and participants. Often rooted in the tangible everyday world, the drama slips or spring dives deep into the imaginary. Fun and magic arise from the practical: a meeting of play and poetry. 

My theatre craft is rooted in a childhood immersed in books; and living out those books in the back garden. The English Literature & Drama (BA University of East Anglia; MA directing at Goldsmiths) amalgamated with a love of contemporary dance (discovered, aged 13, on a school trip to see Rambert).

A few years stage and production managing (including for the Young Vic, Shakespeares' Globe, the Royal Court, Chichester Festival Theatre and Complicite) nurtured the excitement of transforming space, creating new worlds through a collaborative, cross-disciplined practice.  My work aims to turn the everyday into an alternative place: through words, body and music; and, through a lot of recycling! I hang on to potential props: tubes, boxes, packaging... to make environments, puppets and play spaces. Which, since 2006 have been 'out of the bag': in school and community halls, nursery settings; alternative spaces such as woods, gardens and galleries; sometimes, even back inside a theatre.

Through Artis Education and a lot of school halls a Post Graduate Diploma in Performing Arts Leadership propelled this journey onwards with its bags full of stories; and a residency in 2017 with Rose Bruford College and Mexican Dance-Theatre company Al Vacio  sparked an ever increasing playfulness.

Collaborations with and work for other companies include: Barefoot Opera; The Bright Foundation; Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells; Culture Shift; 18Hours & Hastings Story Telling Festival; Artis Education; Half Moon Theatre; Young Vic; De La Warr Pavilion; Hastings Museum; the Jerwood Gallery; and Great Dixter House & Gardens. Collaborations also with other artists and musicians.

Rebecca has a DBS enhanced disclosure and public liability insurance.