Welcome to
Pocket Of Light
Theatre Company
Trying to make the world a better place with theatre...trying to not be pretentious about it.
News
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Last Performance
October 10th-20th 2024
A little taster vid taking us on a quick journey from the beginning of our first play to now as we prepare for our latest project: an R and D with one of the UKs best playwrights - Doug Lucie. We are looking to develop his first piece of new writing in almost 20 years with the aim of staging the play in 2027. We are also very excited to have been supported by The Arcola Theatre in this endeavour.
Reviews:
Brighton Source, Susanne Crosby: Pocket of Light theatre company step up and deliver this challenging and powerful drama with grounded reality...so much to inspire and challenge in this emotion packed production. a wonderful, highly recommended thought provoking night of quality theatre.
Audience Response:
Fringe Review, Simon Jenner: A first-class revival. Striking, flawless performances, tight directing over 75 minutes; idiomatic voice-coaching, a superb touring set making good integrated use of the Lantern’s black, where Erin Burbridge’s technical lighting and sound are seamless too. A must-see for Brighton audiences.
“Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.”
Willem Dafoe
“That’s what our work can do; we remind people that things can change, that wounds can heal, that people can be forgiven, and that closed hearts can open again.”
Larry Moss - Legendary Acting Coach
About Us
We are a new Theatre company formed from the teachings of the great American practitioners Sanford Meisner, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Susan Batson and inspired by the ground breaking, paradigm shifting work of the Group Theatre of the 1930's which birthed the modern concept of truthful acting.
All members of ‘Pocket of Light’ are trained and continue to train in the Meisner and Method techniques at The Actor's Craft. These techniques represent the culmination of over 140 years of evolution and codification in an attempt to create deeper, realer more human performances.
What defines us is our commitment to the craft of acting and our daily pursuit to improve as artists as we seek to create work which profoundly impacts the audience to effect meaningful change in people and the world beyond.
Our intent can be summed up by one moment in theatre history...the staging of Clifford Odets's 'Waiting for Lefty' in 1935 which dealt with the abuse of the working man, poverty, unionism and the rights of the individual during the Depression. In the climax, the workers rally to strike, raising their fists and yelling "Strike! Strike! Strike! In a moment of symbiotic felt truth and passion the audience leapt to their feet and began chanting "Strike! Strike! Strike!" This is theatre...this is the power of truth; this is what we hope to incite in our audiences...passion to live, to question the world around them, to fight the good fight, to stand for truth and justice...to shout "I'm as angry as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore".
Contact
In Association with The Actor's Craft: Studio of Meisner and Method