The Broad Cloth

The Broad Cloth is a piece of guided community theatre which uses a ground-breaking new production process for accessibility.

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Set on a fictional island whose main industry is the traditional manufacture of a woollen textile called broadcloth, the story revolves around their traditional coming-of-age gift: a bolt of broadcloth which is prepared and blessed at a community gathering. The recipient then spends their life being judged by how they cut their cloth.

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The chief’s daughter, Elizabeth, is soon to come of age. You are invited... providing you can reach the island. They say there’s a great storm brewing. Maybe the island’s faery ancestors have other plans.

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The full production will take place with different island communities around the UK and Scandinavia, each one imagining the fictional community and bringing it to life.

 

This project is a collaboration with Oliver Dawe and The Field Station in Norway, pictured above.