Bronzehead Theatre creates site-sensitive performances, focused on the moment where storytelling becomes theatre. We take our name and inspiration from the myth of the Brazen Head, a talking statue that could speak of the past, present or future…
The company was founded in 2013 with the aim of developing site-sensitive performances in historic venues. Our opening play, Old Haunts, was a limited run of three medieval ghost stories in the historic (and haunted) church of Holy Trinity, York, run by the Churches Conservation Trust. Our tour of Richard II built on this, performing in venues intimately linked to King Richard's reign, with the first ever performance of the play taking place at Pontefract Castle, the site of the king's imprisonment and death. This was later toured to Eschwege in Germany in 2016. 2017 has seen our innovative production of Henry IV in pubs throughout Yorkshire, including opening the York International Shakespeare Festival. August 2017 sees the first stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' and Wilkie Collins' The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices in parks throughout York. A site-sensitive production of Bram Stoker's Dracula is also in the works for Halloween.
