When deciding on how we want to be viewed as a company and considering how we want our externally facing materials to reflect us, it is important we bare in mind the style of theatre and audience we are trying to appeal to. I have recently sat down with our company director and stage manager to get a better sense of what their aspirations for the company are and from there I have begun drafting our Manifesto and Mission Statement. My intentions are to create a manifesto that articulates the importance of audience and reality within our company. I hope to demonstrate the level of engagement we are hoping to encapsulate within performance and present the fundamental basis of our companies future work. Our mission Statement is slightly more colloquial as I intend on using this to portray the relaxed environment we intend on creating throughout our companies productions. We want to create theatre that is easily accessible to those who wouldn’t normally visit a traditional theatre space. It is important to us that we can create an environment where participation and audience reaction is encouraged and embraced. We intend on creating a theatre environment that allows our audience to relax and go back to the basics. Our mission statement encourages our audience to consider what is truly important to us as humans, the things we cannot live without, and take some time to stop clouding their day to day lives with the worries and stress of ‘living’.
Sherbet Lemon Theatre Manifesto
We are Sherbet Lemon Theatre. We are a group of artists who devise performance incorporating verbatim techniques to portray the reality of our day to day lives. We take the sweet and sour of being human and address the aspects we cannot live without! We invite our audience to take a step back from the complications of life and instead acknowledge the essentials. We create a comfortable and relaxed environment where our audience can feel immersed in our performance. This is vital to us as a company as we want to involve real people through their words and experiences.
Sherbet Lemon Theatre Mission Statement
Life can be overwhelming sometimes. The complications that fog our day to day lives can get in the way of what we truly need as humans. We invite you to take a step back from the complications of your everyday life and focus in on the essentials.
We are an all female collective inspired to create original performance. We want to tell the stories of real people using their own words to add a sense of authenticity to our performance. We take the sweet and sour of being human and address the aspects we cannot live without! We want to create a relaxed atmosphere where everyone can feel comfortable and involved in the action around them.
Our style of theatre is inclusive, relatable, sweet and a little bit sour. We are Sherbet Lemon Theatre!
E.L.
