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Over the last 17 years Foursight has gained an exceptional reputation for creating unusual, uncompromising and multi-disciplinary works, which review history through the eyes of women: unknown, famous and infamous. About the company The Company is committed to creating total theatre - a holistic style of performance rooted in physical theatre, combining word, movement and music in equal measure. The work is fundamentally experimental in both process and form, whilst remaining accessible to a wide-ranging audience.  Foursight is renowned for its passionate and expressionistic performances which weave themes and emotions together in a visual and aural feast.  |  | A bold and daring company that revels in walking a creative tightrope. | | Manchester Evening News | | Aberdeen Press & Journal |
Foursight is also a provider of educational theatre, physical theatre workshops and drama projects for educational establishments. Since its inception, the company has been working in schools, colleges and universities alongside children, teens and adults to enable the exploration of many ideas through the medium of drama.  | | Naomi Cooke |
Foursight is run by Artistic Director Naomi Cooke, together with Special Projects Co-ordinator Frances Land and Administrator Emma Beale. Foursight employ other professionals (musicians, actors, writers, designers etc) on a project by project basis. 2004/05 activities Portugal Connections A one-week trip to Portugal in May 2004 to work with Teatro Regional Da Serra Montemuro, a predominantly male theatre company based in the Montemuro mountains of Northern Portugal. This is Foursignt's second visit to continue training and workshopping towards a potential future collaboration to be toured both in Portugal and the UK. Education Action Zone An Education Action Zone project in conjunction with Shropshire County Council entitled "A Chorus of Broken Voices", working with primary and secondary school children exploring themes connected to the play Hecuba (see national tour details below) leading to a performance piece in June 2004 at the open air amphitheatre in Telford. Summer School  | | Image from the Serious Play poster |
A three-week Summer School entitled "Serious Play" - a progressive training programme in the methods of Foursight Theatre aimed at professional actors, graduates and undergraduates of drama. The course runs from 28th June to 16th July at a cost of £200. If you would like further details, please go to our website. The BBC has no responsibility for the content of external websites. Hecuba National Tour  | | Image from the Hecuba poster |
An eight-week national tour of Hecuba during the autumn which will visit small/mid-scale venues throughout seven different Arts Council regions. This is the British premiere of a new translation by John Harrison. This rarely-staged Greek classic lays bare the tragic effect of war on women, children and the men who perpetrate it. Please see our website for tour details and venues. | About Foursight's production of Medea: | | About Foursight's production of Agamemnon: | | Incomparably the best performance of Greek drama I have ever seen... wonderfully directed and acted. | | Moving
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high quality drama. | | Dr Juliet Dusinberre, Cambridge University | | The Stage |
Winter Rep Season The company will be working with three women writers from the region in the development of three new plays. A team of professional actors drawn from local talent will participate with the writers in a collaborative process to transform a script from page to stage. Throughout the process, Foursight will work closely with Script (Birmingham), drawing on their expertise in the selection of the writers and also in the development of the project. Working alongside Foursight's Artistic Director, Naomi Cooke, the plays will be rehearsed and performed over a period of six weeks at the Newhampton Arts Centre in Wolverhampton at the beginning of 2005. | 
