About
Chris Goode & Company is a new company formed by lead artist Chris Goode and producer Ric Watts to develop original collaborative and exploratory theatre projects across a variety of forms and contexts.
The company provides a home for a broad range of (often uncategorisable) performance projects, principally focused on ensemble-based collaborative and participatory processes, and on formally innovative but accessible approaches to documentary and storytelling.
Whether in solo or group formats, the company’s work is always collaboratively created by a fluid, constantly evolving ensemble of performers and makers, with Chris Goode’s role as lead artist setting a characteristic tone of openness, friendliness and restless invention.
“A star of intelligent leftfield theatre” Time Out
“A theatre-maker who’s up there with the very best” The Guardian
“Genius at work” The Scotsman
“A theatre-maker of infinite talent and infinite compassion” The Guardian
The company launched in March 2011 and fully realised projects to date include:
THE ADVENTURES OF WOUND MAN AND SHIRLEY, a new version of Chris’s acclaimed solo storytelling show for Edinburgh and BAC in 2011 and a UK tour in 2012.
KEEP BREATHING, a new solo interactive documentary performance about the science and ecology of breathing. A Drum Theatre Plymouth production, created with the support of London Word Festival, November 2011.
OPEN HOUSE, an open-access and participatory week-long devising project, held at Transform at West Yorkshire Playhouse in June 2011 and Mayfest, Bristol in May 2012.
GOD/HEAD, an experimental documentary piece exploring the ambiguous interzone between religious faith and neuroscience. Made with Ovalhouse and Theatre in the Mill, February 2012
9, nine solo performances created by nine non-professional performers from Yorkshire in collaboration with the company, in co-production with West Yorkshire Playhouse, April 2012.
MONKEY BARS, a revelatory verbatim show that takes the words of children aged 7-10 and places them into the mouths of adults. Co-produced with the Unicorn Theatre and premiered at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, August 2012.