Tuba Shack Theatre Company is a Cornwall based collaboration between three plucky theatre makers from across the UK.

Contact us! Email:tubashacktheatre@hotmail.co.uk

Tuba Shack are a theatre company with a difference, they let their 'theatre' do the performing. Creating living artworks out of whatever they can find, Tuba Shack aims to give a place, any place, the opportunity to perform itself. They frame a landscape and become part of it themselves, ever evolving and changing with the world that surrounds them.

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PIG SHED - A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE TREMOUGH HORIZON

@ Tremough Campus, UCF, Cornwall

LIGHTHOUSE - A RECLAIMED BEACON

@ tbc

Will Salter is a writer and film-maker from South Wales with a passion for the obscure. With more than enough tawdry quirks for anybody, Will brings a unique brand of madness and creative flair to anything he is involved with. Loving the hands-on approach to things means that Will gives his all and few productions don't contain his actual blood, sweat and tears.
Will likes trains and interesting plants.

Adam Coleman draws insight from surrounding areas to create his masterpieces.Coming from built up greater London, he is spoilt for inspiration looking at the Cornish landscapes where he studies. Creativity and performing are his best qualities, and his awful jokes (that even rival the two others) help motivate with often prolonged laughter.
Adam likes beer and long walks on the beach.

Marc Galbraith is a poet and clown with a knack for soap carving and a taste for scotch! A travelling man looking for roots, he gets his kicks from the ideas stage of a process, from creating theatrical busyness and from the little details. (And from shouting alot.)
Marc likes insults and dirt, scrumping and criminal law.

PIG SHED! Mind your head!

Tuba Shack Theatre Co. created Pig Shed to give a new perspective on the horizon as seen from University College Falmouth's Tremough campus. They built a viewing station, taking its name from Tremoughs pig farming past, that focussed attention on things normally overlooked. Built entirely from objects found in sight of it, Pig Shed became part of the landscape that it strived to represent. Through conversation with staff at the university and members of the local populous, it grew to be much more than a viewing booth to become an information centre and point of interest. It was a living, breathing, evolving sculpture that let the world around it do the performing and framed a beautiful landscape highlighting the smallest but most special features that made it up. Alas, it befell a tragic destruction on the 16th of June but lived on in a small tribute exhibition in the University College Falmouth performance centre and was available to view during the performance festival from 17/06/11 'till 24/06/11.
Long live Pig Shed!

Pig Shed was the first production/ construction of a series. Each one explores both framing and relevance to site but also highlight issues of refuse and re-use.
Our next planned large venture is Lighthouse and will focus on washed up waste becoming a dot on the horizon and part of the landscape and then being reclaimed by the sea.
Stay tuned!

The Pig Shed exhibition at UCF's performance centre was an extension and relic of Pig Shed.
It included 'best bits' in the form of a single panel from the original construction as well as choice objects and ample documentation including 'The Pig Shed Story' by Adam Coleman. Visitors to the performance festival were treated to it in the main foyer of the building and were free to browse at will while waiting for any of the fantastic performance events.

Photos owned by Will Salter, Adam Coleman, Ben Salter and James Beresford

COMING SOON

The company propose to remain, for the three days, on site, so to become part of the performance of its growth and part of the landscape in which they are exploring. They also intend on involving the local student community to form a crack squad of beach combers, litter pickers and urban scrumpers. As much of the material as possible, that is collected by our teams of tidy-uppers, will be used in the artwork and that which is omitted shall naturally be disposed of properly so to tidy up the beach. This environmental issue which the work incorporates is new to the company and they look forward to exploring its possibilities.

LIGHT HOUSE

A project coming soon from Tuba Shack is Lighthouse. This construction/ performance will again explore ideas of waste and re-use but reverses our old ideas of looking out, to create an installation, like Scarecrow Showdown, to be looked at more from afar. In our previous projects, we gathered waste from around the Tremough campus of University College Falmouth and our locality of Penryn to create our work but this time we head further afield, to a beach, to collect the miscellaneous flotsam and jetsam that we can find. From this waste, we propose to homage some of Cornwall’s maritime history with the creation of a coastal beacon/lighthouse so to continue Tuba Shacks love of narrating the environment which they are installed in.

Day 1 – Collection, accumulation and cultivation of waste.

Day 2 – Construction of Lighthouse followed by the observation of its destruction by the sea.

Day 3 – Reclamation of surviving materials; that which the sea refuses to take back.

COMPLETED

Stay tuned for further news, developments and dates regarding Tuba Shacks Lighthouse.

COMPLETED

SCARECROW SHOWDOWN -
COMPETITON

@ Penryn 5th November

NEW!!!!!

URBAN SCRUMPING
Hints and Tips

!!!NEW!!!

A guide to how to collect the rubbish necessary to Tuba Shack for yourself.

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