We Were Here < is a theatre company in flux; progressing, learning, evolving, constantly in motion. We Were Here < is Natalie Ibu and a family of Associate Artists.
In the long term, we aim to be a creative ensemble for emerging practitioners seeking to develop their craft through experimentation and exploration. As a fledgling company, we work on a project-to-project basis – inviting artists to work with us as Artistic Associates.
We Were Here < asks it’s artists to take control of each other’s professional development – we believe that by fearlessly engaging in the work, we facilitate and push forward each other’s development. We are responsible only to ourselves, each other and to the work. We believe that you’re only a Writer when you’re writing, you’re only a Director when you’re in the rehearsal room and so on and so forth. We think that practice makes perfect, or at least informed, confident and curious practitioners. We can talk the talk but we want to walk the walk. We ask our artists to be hungry, fascinated and bold.
We are devoted to telling stories – from large sweeping plot driven epics to intimate tales of ordinary people and everyday occurrences. The potential of the theatrical experience is our stimulus; We Were Here < is open to, and not limited by, the possibilities of free play, text, site, sound, and story.
Working as an ensemble, through collaboration and the marrying of art forms, We Were Here < asks – but doesn’t resolve – what theatre should be; what it should taste, sound, look and feel like.
Through innovative collaboration, We Were Here < aims to assert itself as a company of engaging and exciting theatre makers.
We Were Here < but we have already moved on.
We Were…
…In a Cafe: May 2008
…In Development: May 2008
…Re-imaging the Mother: June 2008/October 2009/November 2009
…REMIX: May 2010
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