Time for Tea Time for Tea commissioned by Newcastle Arts Centre Trust Ltd and Middlesbrough Town Hall as part of the English Heritage Open Days where a menu of performance options was presented to over 300 guests (mainly new audience) during 10 hours of performances including monologues, soundscapes, four part harmonies and physical theatre motifs [...]

Teaside - a Travelling Tearoom As part of the BBC/Arts Council England’s national project Made in England  Skimstone performers have created a distinctive and intimate theatrical experience in their cozy mobile tearoom. Here at the big Tea Party Rose, Alberto, and Bill continue to lead members of the public into a world of funny, bizarre [...]

Timemouth Station Timemouth Station was performed as part of a commissioned programme, for the national Diamond Jubilee Event at Tynemouth Station. The performance was written and devised by Claire Webster Saaremets after a year long residency of collecting stories from a wide range of public with Tim Dalling as the ‘Thought Collectors. Come and meet [...]

More on This Later A theatre performance by Gabriele Heller (theatre-between) and Claire Webster-Saaremets (Skimstone Arts) as part of Festival Robert Walser 19 – 25 March 2012   More on This Later is a performance response to Walser’s modernist writing. Realistic description and fictional creation seem to change so quickly in Walser’s texts, that you [...]

Who Owns the Inner Shell? Skimstone Arts was invited to open a conference at Northumbria University – Coach Lane Campus. Responding to the theme of Visual Methodologies in Health, Skimstone opened the day with a performance lecture entitled Who Owns the Inner Shell? The performance saw three Skimstone Arts performers, Claire Webster Saaremets, Tom Spence [...]

The Refuge The Refuge at both the pavilion and the sanctuary part of the church became an inviting space, where ‘refuge workers’ cared for anyone choosing to enter the space and help them tell their story, using live music, performance and engagement/ story sharing experiences. Over 200 members of the public experienced the 15 minute [...]

Doorbells Doorbells, a physical theatre performance about a woman’s wonderful world of imaginative, surreal and humorous lands, inspired by everyday objects, that enable her to survive being alone.   The performance features original compositions with double bass, guitar and voice, alongside projections and soundscapes. The piece has been inspired by collecting true stories through artist [...]

A Natural Anthem Inspired by themes of security, propaganda and Isaac Rosenberg’s ‘Returning, We Hear the Larks’, this specially commissioned, poignant and humorous anthem-led performance and multi-art form installation explores the impact of threat, community action during times of war, and today’s fight to protect the natural world.  From this, a new micro-nation is born… [...]

Briefcase Encounter Skimstone created a short film ‘Briefcase Encounter’, which is a contemporary take on the classic movie Brief Encounter.This piece, recorded with the kind support of Tanfield Railway and its volunteers, explains how the characters from the Travelling Tearoom, Rose and Bill, first met, 30 year ago. It was shown on a portable TV [...]

Fish & The Yesterday Song Fish & The Yesterday Song is a live performance interweaving poetic memories and mythical tales with stunning projections and soundscapes. Humorous, haunting, magical and mysterious. This contemporary performance piece with original sound, film and live performance, is inspired by artistic collaborations between Skimstone and both young and older participants from [...]