FINE CHISEL

19/09/2017

Sat 30th Sep & Sun 1st Oct: The Egg Theatre, Bath
Fri 13th - Sat 14th Oct: Half Moon Young People's Theatre, Putney, London

Our last two noisy outings of Flit, Flap & Fly this year. Please help us spread the word... and come fly with us into the autumn!

BATH tickets
http://www.theatreroyal.org.uk/page/3030/Flit-Flap-and-Fly/1495

LONDON tickets
https://www.halfmoon.org.uk/?post_type=events&p=15200

14/08/2017

Ready for takeoff...? Our birds will be flitting and flapping tomorrow (Tuesday) in Guildhall Square in Southampton with
Nuffield Southampton Theatres
https://www.nstheatres.co.uk/whats-on/summer-in-the-square

Then we'll be flying around Just So Festival this weekend.
See you there, we hope!
http://www.justsofestival.org.uk/

Photo from Hat Fair, Wi******er by Adrienne Photography
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17/06/2017

We'll be soaring around the UK this summer with an all-new version of FLIT, FLAP & FLY:
a noisy escapade about growing up and singing your heart out.

Grab your small people and come squawk with us:

Greenwich + Docklands International Festival
24th & 25th June

Hat Fair, Wi******er
Fri 30th June & Sat 1st July

Ledbury Poetry Festival
Sat 8th July

Blakers Park, Brighton
Sat 15th & Sun 16th July

Waterside Arts Centre, Sale
Sat 22nd July

Cloudspotting Festival, Gisburn Forest
Sun 30th July

Valley Fest, Chew Valley
Sat 5th August

Just So Festival
Fri 18th, Sat 19th & Sun 20th August

Festival Number 6, Portmeirion
Fri 8th, Sat 9th & Sun 10th September

Head For The Hills, Ramsbottom
Sat 16th & Sun 17th September

The Egg, Bath
Sat 30th September & Sun 1st October

Half Moon Theatre, Putney
Fri 13th & Sat 14th October

DETAILS AND TICKETS: http://finechisel.co.uk/

Do you run a festival, primary school or venue and fancy joining the adventure?
We still have some available dates - give us a toot!

16/03/2017

Performers of the South West - come squawk with us. https://t.co/ItIx76VoJO

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06/02/2017

We're coming home... After a brilliant few weeks touring our underground adventure, next week we finish our tour at The Egg (theatre) Theatre Royal Bath and Wickham Theatre, Bristol.
Please help us spread the word and send Sprout and the gang off with a bang!

06/02/2017

29/01/2017

The company are taking a few days' rest after amazing week with Take Art, touring Beneath The Blizzard to rural village halls around Somerset.

From Friday we're back on the road, exploring the winding lanes of North Devon as we travel to three more rural venues with Beaford Arts.

http://www.beaford-arts.org.uk/index.php?id=29&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=731&cHash=c07e1b5643ce89463fd0ddcb0596691a

12/12/2016

Some ace production shots by Paul Blakemore of Beneath The Blizzard at The Bike Shed Theatre

Shows over Christmas are selling out, but there's good availability this week. https://www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk/shows/beneath-the-blizzard/

18/11/2016

Here's the trailer for our new show: Beneath The Blizzard - a foot-stomping family adventure set in an extraordinary underground world.

We're at the wonderful Bike Shed Theatre in Exeter for the Christmas season (8 December - 7 January) then touring across the region. Full dates and details: http://finechisel.co.uk/

Film by the brilliant Paul Blakemore

17/11/2016

We're currently in rehearsal, bringing to life all the rogues and rebels who live in depths of our underground bunker.

Beneath The Blizzard
8 December - 7 Jan, The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter
Then touring across the south west
http://finechisel.co.uk/

12/09/2016

We have some sad news. Last week the entire set of our show Flit, Flap & Fly was stolen along with a trailer from a locked car park in St Pauls, Bristol.

We will of course still perform our last upcoming shows of the season, but without the beautiful, hand-crafted set that took many weeks of work to construct from sustainable hazel.

Here is a still from CCTV, which shows our trailer just before it is taken and the offending van. Unfortunately it's not clear enough to see the number plate, but the van has quite a distinctive marking/logo on the side.

If you see this vehicle around Bristol, or any dumped wooden hurdles that you think could be items from our set, please contact us or Avon Police.

Many thanks
FINE CHISEL x

12/07/2016

We're squawking our way around family festivals this summer. Almost all of these dates for Flit, Flap & Fly are free: http://finechisel.co.uk/flit-flap-fly

12/07/2016

Want to find out more about working with Fine Chisel? http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/arts-job/post/female-actor-musician-devising-festive-show-tour/

31/03/2016

Over the festive season we made and toured a new show, Neither There Nor Here. While most of the action was about escaping from trolls, man-eating trees and a giant black dog, at the heart of the tale were three outsiders looking for a safe place to call home. At the end of each show we asked audiences to donate anything they could; we said we would take the total amount to Calais and try to help people for whom the search for a safe home is an urgent reality.

We have been dilly-dallying for the past few weeks, trying to find a time when our team could travel to France ourselves for long enough to make a difference. But we don't want to hesitate any longer just because our diary is complicated... the need is great and we want everyone's generous donations to be put to use. The Spring sunshine may be coming out here, but conditions remain life threatening for many living in refugee camps.

So we have just donated the full amount (£1,119!) to the brilliant team at Crew for Calais - an energised collective of theatre people who use their technical skills and equipment to design and build shelters for the camps in Calais and Dunkirk. Here's a video of the work they've done so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBmBmP6jufY&feature=youtu.be

I asked CfC what our donation might support and they said: 'that amount will allow us to send six volunteers for ten days each over to the newly constructed Dunkirk refugee camp to work in Aid Distribution and to build the camp kitchens, which feed hundreds of people.'

So thank you very, very much to everyone who came to the shows, sung along, ate and drank with us, then reached into their pockets and donated.

FC x

Crew for Calais is a group of theatre and events professionals who have come together to use their skills to build shelters for refugees in Calais and Dunkir...

05/12/2015

Fancy a little taster of the show? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTQD64wuCL0

FINE CHISEL and The Theatre Orchard present NEITHER THERE NOR HERE A new piece of musical storytelling for the festive season. Touring across Bristol, Bath a...

03/12/2015

We started this morning with a devising workshop for a group of brilliant A-level students at Clevedon School, in which we created a dysfunctional factory and a perilous flight on a budget airline.

We spent this afternoon rehearsing in the local community centre, which mainly involved puppeteering a military poncho and singing as faeries.

Early evening we played a gig at the Hill Road Christmas Fayre, in which we were joined for an impromptu jam by Bob Geldof's drummer.

And we rounded out the night with a pop-up slot in the interval of a play about a Christmas Grotto.

As 'marketing' goes, this was wonderful. Please help us prove that this approach works by helping us spread the word around North Somerset, Bristol and Bath. Thank you.

George, Andrek & Tom x

Theatre Orchard Theatre Shop

http://finechisel.co.uk/neither-there-nor-here/

25/11/2015

Ours is just one of a stack of great events at the wonderful Theatre Shop in Clevedon this winter... check out the full listings here: http://www.theatreshop.org.uk/