Special Projects
We have worked in museums with artefacts and collections, in art galleries with works of art, and with heritage sites and historic buildings.
Time Travellers can devise and perform projects to suit a client's own particular requirements. The size of a project can be as small as a single character, or up to twenty characters. The duration can be from a single day to several months.
We can provide everything from fully scripted plays, performed on stages or in the gallery to continuous improvised interpretation, which respond to visitors as individuals.
Any of the characters from our schools programmes can also be engaged as on gallery first person interpreters.
If you want to know more about how and why we perform you can read about our theoretical basis.
Here are some examples of museums programmes:
1299: The Charter
A scripted gallery performance interpretation celebrating the loan of the Royal Charter granted to Kings Town upon Hull [The Ferens Art Gallery, Hull]
1337-1445 : The Dice Players
A 20 minute performance interpreting the portrait of 'The Dice Players' and celebrating its return to the museum after restoration. [Preston Park Museum, Stockton on Tees]
1605 : The Gun Powder Plot
A part scripted interactive workshop exploring the trial of Thomas Winter accused of conspiring with Guido Fawkes. [ Ripon Cathedral]
1751 : The Conversation Piece
A 15 minute scripted / interactive performance exploring the form and content of an C18th painting of Boynton Hall [The Ferens Art Gallery, Hull]
1790 : The Lunar Society
Continuous interpretation of Mathew Boulton's guests and household [ Soho House, Birmingham]
1790 : The Grand Tour
2 person on gallery interpretation interpreting the' Treasures of the North' Exhibition [The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle}
1793 : The Georgian House
Interactive, continuously improvised interpretation of Pinny's household involving multiple characters in period rooms. [The Georgian House Museum, Bristol ]
1800 : The Sale of Old Dobbin
Improvised interpretation of a Victorian painting depicting the slump in agriculture [Dudley Art gallery]
1825 Chuffing Locomotion
Scripted street theatre performance interpreting the opening of the Stockton and Darlington railway. [ Stockton Riverside Festival]
1878 : An Evening at Hughenden Manor
Interactive, improvised interpretation of Disraeli's household and guests [Hughenden Manor, High Wycombe]
1899 : Chamberlains House
Interactive, improvised interpretation of Chamberlain's household and guests [Birmingham]
1900 The High Street Promenade
A full day interactive improvised drama set in a reconstructed Victorian Street with Time Travellers interpreters working alongside members of Stockton Youth Theatre. [Preston Hall Museum, Stockton]
1904 - 1942 Trouble at t'Mill - Parts 1, 2 and 3
A full day interactive 'Murder Mystery' event working with the museum's curatorial staff in role [ Moorside Mills, Bradford ]
