Nuns on the run needed!

Outdoor, Outdoor

Award-winning theatre company seek volunteers for Brighton Festival performance

Theatre company Burn The Curtain are on the look-out for ‘nuns’ to take part in stewarding their Brighton Festival 2015 performance The Company of Wolves (7 – 9 May). The company are seeking volunteers to don a habit and take part in the promenade theatre adventure created for runners and walkers across Stanmer Park.

The performance turns Angela Carter’s macabre imagination into a spine-tingling outdoor experience; the tale unfolds as you progress along a pre-determined route which will be between two and five miles long, depending on which path you take. Those taking part can choose to either run or walk the course… with a warning that should you stray from the path for one instant, the wolves will eat you!

‘Character Peter the Priest is seeking devoted sisters for light nunning duties,’ explains Joe Hancock, Artistic Director of Burn The Curtain. ‘One nun will run with runners, one nun will float between runners and walkers and one will walk with the walkers. Your role is simple - keep the Hunters and Gatherers in line, keep them from straying from the path. A sense of rhythm and great dance moves may be useful but not essential, and devotion to any deity optional. Look of grim determination or abject fear an asset’.

Those interested in getting involved are asked to email Joe on [javascript protected email address] – deadline for applicants is Tuesday 31 March 2015.

Burn the Curtain are a group of performers, artists and educators based in the South West who create unique hands-on site specific events where audience and performers travel together, work together, and build the performance together. They won an Argus Angel at Brighton Festival 2013 for their promenade performance of The Adventures of Don Quixote by Bicycle which saw audiences ride across the South Downs alongside the titular hero and his reluctant squire Sancho Panza.