Over the last twenty years Triangle Theatre Company has developed high quality, innovative history-based projects that blur the boundaries between actors and spectators, most recently using a sophisticated interactive technique called Immersive Museum Theatre™

The company’s latest project, The Last Women, is inspired by the crimes of passion and execution of Mary Ball: a ribbon weaver, from Bedworth hanged in Coventry in 1849 and Ruth Ellis: the last woman to be hanged in Britain in 1955. The project is touring to 7 cities nationally as it is developed. At each city a link is made with a local stories of women and justice. You are able to visit the production in development at a series of ‘forums’, and ‘panels’. Watch the actors in rehearsal and meet some of the experts who are influencing their research on this unique project. Check the Triangle site for details of events www.triangletheatre.co.uk

“Fascinating and entertaining...I‘ve never experienced anything like that”.
Gurpal Ghotra, of Warwick Business School (after The Last Women forum in February 2008)

“[You have] mastery of your means of expression…actors who know the science of self-directing”
Eugenio Barba, Internationally acclaimed director of Odin Teatret, Denmark

Triangle was established by performer-writer-director Carran Waterfield in 1988, and is now led in partnership with established performer Richard Talbot. Triangle‘s award-winning productions are firmly based on personal narratives and investigations into infamous stories and occurrences, the majority of which are firmly rooted in the city of Coventry. Although very much grounded in their work with local Coventry communities Triangle have an international reputation.

Triangle runs regular training events in its methods for performers and museum professionals. Contact Triangle for details: office@triangletheatre.co.uk (Tel: 0247 678 5170).

‘One of the greatest things about the work…is the amount of time and the freedom you have…with a fresh audience around the corner every few minutes’
Fionn Gill, Performer (January 2008)

Since 2001 Triangle has been the theatre company in residence at The Herbert. Using museum collections and archives as a springboard Triangle’s method combines the use of striking and often seriously funny characters to create an imaginative space or  ‘world’ in which life and art are interwoven and participants immerse themselves in exploring individual and social identity.

Recent projects at The Herbert include Museums & Heritage Award-winner Coventry Kids in The Blitz  (2004/5) a radical and large scale interpretation of the Home Front experience of Second World War which immersed young people in improvisations on remote sites for over 24 hours at a time. 

"The way we did it when we actually experienced it... it was much more educational ... because it's when you learn it you just read it out of a book you don't
exactly know it but when you actually go and do it it's like you're living it and so it's easier
for you to understand."
Young participant in Coventry Kids In The Blitz (October 2005)

The Pollard Trail (2005/6) took Hillfields near Coventry city centre by storm introducing a band of clownish amateur curators into the various communities at a time of huge environmental redevelopment. The clowns unearthed surprising information about the incredible story of  local entertainer Irving Pollard, whose collection is now in The Herbert. New items discovered during this project can be seen at www.cmpsoc.kk5.org.

“Hope this exhibition goes from strength to strength – it’s changed my opinion of museums”
Jayne Baltimore, Coventry (2005)

Triangle
c/o The Herbert
Jordan Well
Coventy
CV1 5QP
info@triangletheatre.co.uk
www.triangletheatre.co.uk
Office: 02476 785170

Artistic Director: Carran Waterfield

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