Theatre

Firstly, we want to say a HUGE thankyou for all those who booked tickets and came along to support our Signal Fires event on the 31st October. It was so wonderful to welcome back audiences to see live performance, even though we now are now amid another 4-week hiatus, so we feel incredibly lucky to…

About Signal Fires During October and November, fires lit up across the UK with storytellers and audiences sharing in one of the original forms of theatre, storytelling around the fireside. Each fire, a visual reminder of the vibrancy of touring theatre, and the threat our industry continues to face. From spectacular bonfires to digital blazes;…

Local artists and theatre makers Ben Mills (Proteus Associate Artist) and Lydia Thompson (who has and directed previous Proteus Youth Theatre shows) are asking the people of Basingstoke to lend their singing voices to a new audio trail project celebrating the past, present and future of Basingstoke! Read on to find out more in Ben…

Resident office horror/thriller fans Mary G and Janet have been devouring time-travelling German noir thriller DARK (our words, not theirs!), an utterly gripping, nail-biting, mind-bending story of the interweaving lives of residents in a small town, and a great study of cause and effect. Our Artistic Director Mary S. has been gripped by BBC documentary…

The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them….Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due. Winston Churchill addressing the Royal Academy on 30 April 1938 Whilst seemingly every other industry seems to…

Director and CEO of Proteus, Mary Swan, explains why making Missing In Action now available to watch in full online, became such an important project for the many lives it touched, and why, 8 years on, this play continues to be a reminder to us all of the reason theatre can make a real and…

Writer and director of BRRR! our family show, now available to watch in full online, reveals the true inspiration for the production’s central character, ‘Steve’ the penguin… Without that grumpy little penguin none of that would have happened Way back in November 2013 Proteus had just moved into the Creation Space, and we wanted to…

Mary Swan here! For those that don’t know me I am the Artistic Director and CEO of Proteus, but crucially I’m also a Mum to two teenage daughters. So, I wanted to share the experience of having teenagers in lockdown, as there seems to be a plethora of resources and activities for younger children, but…

Just 3 weeks since International Woman’s Day 2020, it seem’s pertinent to share this interview that I did for Basingstoke Together. Before Covid-19 had really touched the UK and we were yet to face the biggest challenge of a generation, who knew that #flexibleworking #homeworking would become a reality for so many over us overnight?…

Hey Folks, Mary G here (also known as the ‘other’ Mary, Mary#2 and Marketing Mary). It’s been a strange few days, nay weeks infact, trying to anticipate what lies ahead and navigate the odd situation we find ourselves in. I have the added joy of being tasked with homeschooling my sociable 5 year old, whilst…