Artemis Theatre

Artemis Theatre Company is based in London and was founded in 2002 by Clare Summerskill who is currently the Artistic Director of the company. Its aims are to produce and perform professional theatre particularly for minority sectors within society who are not served by more mainstream and commercial areas of theatre. Over the years Artemis has mad... e its name concentrating primarily on verbatim theatre productions, whereby a number of people are interviewed about a particular subject and a script is created using the contributors' own words and then performed by professional actors. Artemis occasionally produces other kinds of theatre and, as with the verbatim plays it stages, these pieces are also created about people from marginalised groups in society. Theatres Artemis has toured to include: The Lowry, Manchester The Tobacco Factory, Bristol Oval House, London Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton The Old Market, Brighton Komedia, Brighton Lighthouse, Poole The Mumford, Cambridge The Old Fire Station, Oxford Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield Unity Theatre, Liverpool Crescent Theatre, Birmingham The Nuffield Studio Theatre, Southampton Sir John Mills Theatre, Ipswich Y Theatre, Leicester Artemis Theatre Company is a not-for-profit organisation.Read More