Twice Shy Theatre aim to produce challenging and innovative theatre and live art and to bring creative minds together in support and discussion.
Be it through improvised site specific storytelling, challenging performance art or full length shows featuring perverted puppetry and sumptuous sound, Twice Shy will always take you on a journey you will never forget.
Be it through improvised site specific storytelling, challenging performance art or full length shows featuring perverted puppetry and sumptuous sound, Twice Shy will always take you on a journey you will never forget.
WINNERS OF 'BEST ALTERNATIVE ACT' LONDON CABARET AWARDS
***NEWS / UPCOMING SHOWS***
Following on from our opening at The Vaults festival, Waterloo, we will be bringing HYPNAGOGUE to the Royal Academy of Art as part of RA Lates on Saturday, 30th March.
This sensory experience induces a deeply relaxing trance state in audience members, and weaves in elements of an improvised story that takes inspiration from both the audience and the powerful artworks in the RA's Bill Viola / Michelangelo exhibition. The story is accompanied by an instrumental soundtrack and gong bath, leading audiences on a transformative experience.
'Gentle, powerful and nurturing', Ellis Kirkhoven
'Such a fantastic experience!', Ella Caney-Willis
'A remarkable hour spent getting lost in my own imagination with three incredible artists... I urge you not to miss it!', Laura Drake Chambers
'A marvellous, theatrical experience', Jack Stigner
Book here!
We will also be bringing Hypnagogue to The House of Togetherness, Covent Garden & Wilderness Festival 2019
We will also be playing out at Kelburn Garden Party, Glastonbury, Latitude and Shambala this year- more info as we know it!
Following on from our opening at The Vaults festival, Waterloo, we will be bringing HYPNAGOGUE to the Royal Academy of Art as part of RA Lates on Saturday, 30th March.
This sensory experience induces a deeply relaxing trance state in audience members, and weaves in elements of an improvised story that takes inspiration from both the audience and the powerful artworks in the RA's Bill Viola / Michelangelo exhibition. The story is accompanied by an instrumental soundtrack and gong bath, leading audiences on a transformative experience.
'Gentle, powerful and nurturing', Ellis Kirkhoven
'Such a fantastic experience!', Ella Caney-Willis
'A remarkable hour spent getting lost in my own imagination with three incredible artists... I urge you not to miss it!', Laura Drake Chambers
'A marvellous, theatrical experience', Jack Stigner
Book here!
We will also be bringing Hypnagogue to The House of Togetherness, Covent Garden & Wilderness Festival 2019
We will also be playing out at Kelburn Garden Party, Glastonbury, Latitude and Shambala this year- more info as we know it!
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Recent shows include:
HYPNAGOGUE - full show combining hypnosis, improvised healing storytelling and a healing gong soundtrack. The Vaults festival, Waterloo, 2019
LUCID - full show - premiered at Norwich Puppet Theatre, 2018
'Creep' at The Bleeding Heart Ball, for Shotgun Carousel. The Vaults, Waterloo, 2018
'Raising hell' - A bespoke performance art piece created for THE BOX, SOHO, 2018
'A Child is Born', our Twisted Nativity for THE BOX, London. Christmas 2017 & 2018
Live improvised storytelling, Kelburn Garden Party, 2017 & 2018
'The final fling- songs and stories to bid farewell', Secret Garden Party 2017
'Lady in Waiting'- A haunting performance art piece created for THE BOX, SOHO - Oct & Dec 2017
'The Rape of the Well Maidens' for Modern Panic VIII - Apiary Studios, London. A Unique Collection of surreal, controversial and provocative art
Wasteland, Berlin.
Halloween Storytelling, The Arts Club, Mayfair.
'Adventures in Sensual Storytelling', London Togetherness Festival 2017
'Vive la Resistance', Latitude Festival 2017
The Illuminaughty Ball, Glastonbury Festival 2017
Storyweaver, Overground Festival 2017
'Sins of the Father', Bespoke Performance Art Piece for THE BOX, London, November & December, 2016
Last Tuesday Society, Clapham Grand
WHITE MISCHIEF NEW YEARS BALL, Bush Hall.
'SOHO KNOWS', Twice Shy take over of Carnesky's Finishing School, SOHO London
Modern Panic VII - Panic Sermons 2016
'Life, Death, Whatever', Twice Shy residency at The National Trust's Sutton House, Hackney:
'In Umbra', full show with improvised storytelling, live music and improvised hand shadow puppetry from Finger and Thumb Theatre.
'The Unquiet Grave', full show with improvised fireside storytelling and live music in The Great Chamber.
'IMBOLC: A City Ritual', RVT 2016
'Judgement', Cabaret Bizarre, Basel, Switzerland, 2016
Cabaret Fantastique. London
'The Unquiet Grave', Halloween Tales for A Curious Invitation, 2016 & 2017
'Apokalypsis', The Hospital Club, Covent Garden, 2016 & 2017, full show.
'Preconception', full show, for Beyond Bloodlines festival at The Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone 2016
Sensation Seekers Stage, Glastonbury Festival, 2014 & 2016
'Preconception', full show, Shambala Festival, 2016
'Tinderbox', full show, Latitude Festival 2016
'The Jabberwock', The Goblin King's Masquerade Ball
A Curious Invitation presents 'The Twice Shy Peep Show'
Cabaret Roulette: BOOKS
Smoking Puppet Cabaret, Bristol
'The Little Girl Who Wasn't There', Double R Club & London Wonderground
Amsterdam Fringe Festival, full show, DITS Performance Gallery Take Over
The Curiosity Cabaret: The History & Science of Voice in the 19th Century, Old Operating Theatre, London Bridge
MILK gallery take over, full show, Amsterdam
The FREEMIND Project Book Launch, in conjunction with The Shadow Travellers
'Black Widow', Interactive live art & film project for BURN, London
MODERN PANIC V - Apiary Studios, London.
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HYPNAGOGUE - full show combining hypnosis, improvised healing storytelling and a healing gong soundtrack. The Vaults festival, Waterloo, 2019
LUCID - full show - premiered at Norwich Puppet Theatre, 2018
'Creep' at The Bleeding Heart Ball, for Shotgun Carousel. The Vaults, Waterloo, 2018
'Raising hell' - A bespoke performance art piece created for THE BOX, SOHO, 2018
'A Child is Born', our Twisted Nativity for THE BOX, London. Christmas 2017 & 2018
Live improvised storytelling, Kelburn Garden Party, 2017 & 2018
'The final fling- songs and stories to bid farewell', Secret Garden Party 2017
'Lady in Waiting'- A haunting performance art piece created for THE BOX, SOHO - Oct & Dec 2017
'The Rape of the Well Maidens' for Modern Panic VIII - Apiary Studios, London. A Unique Collection of surreal, controversial and provocative art
Wasteland, Berlin.
Halloween Storytelling, The Arts Club, Mayfair.
'Adventures in Sensual Storytelling', London Togetherness Festival 2017
'Vive la Resistance', Latitude Festival 2017
The Illuminaughty Ball, Glastonbury Festival 2017
Storyweaver, Overground Festival 2017
'Sins of the Father', Bespoke Performance Art Piece for THE BOX, London, November & December, 2016
Last Tuesday Society, Clapham Grand
WHITE MISCHIEF NEW YEARS BALL, Bush Hall.
'SOHO KNOWS', Twice Shy take over of Carnesky's Finishing School, SOHO London
Modern Panic VII - Panic Sermons 2016
'Life, Death, Whatever', Twice Shy residency at The National Trust's Sutton House, Hackney:
'In Umbra', full show with improvised storytelling, live music and improvised hand shadow puppetry from Finger and Thumb Theatre.
'The Unquiet Grave', full show with improvised fireside storytelling and live music in The Great Chamber.
'IMBOLC: A City Ritual', RVT 2016
'Judgement', Cabaret Bizarre, Basel, Switzerland, 2016
Cabaret Fantastique. London
'The Unquiet Grave', Halloween Tales for A Curious Invitation, 2016 & 2017
'Apokalypsis', The Hospital Club, Covent Garden, 2016 & 2017, full show.
'Preconception', full show, for Beyond Bloodlines festival at The Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone 2016
Sensation Seekers Stage, Glastonbury Festival, 2014 & 2016
'Preconception', full show, Shambala Festival, 2016
'Tinderbox', full show, Latitude Festival 2016
'The Jabberwock', The Goblin King's Masquerade Ball
A Curious Invitation presents 'The Twice Shy Peep Show'
Cabaret Roulette: BOOKS
Smoking Puppet Cabaret, Bristol
'The Little Girl Who Wasn't There', Double R Club & London Wonderground
Amsterdam Fringe Festival, full show, DITS Performance Gallery Take Over
The Curiosity Cabaret: The History & Science of Voice in the 19th Century, Old Operating Theatre, London Bridge
MILK gallery take over, full show, Amsterdam
The FREEMIND Project Book Launch, in conjunction with The Shadow Travellers
'Black Widow', Interactive live art & film project for BURN, London
MODERN PANIC V - Apiary Studios, London.
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Watch this space for LUCID, a full length theatre production looking to R&D this autumn with a view to full production in 2018.
A moving and compassionate tale of an old woman's journey away from this world and her failing body into her own limitless world of lucid dreaming ...and of her daughter's struggle to prevent it.
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A moving and compassionate tale of an old woman's journey away from this world and her failing body into her own limitless world of lucid dreaming ...and of her daughter's struggle to prevent it.
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...A CREATIVE COMMUNITY
The Twice Shy Theatre Creative Community is a free space for artists, audiences and like minded people to discuss, share and be passionate about issues of identity, acceptance and performance.
For those who have seen our shows, in any of their forms, feel free to question, comment or review.
For those who have seen our shows, in any of their forms, feel free to question, comment or review.
