Pigeon Theatre’s distinctive style of immersive, interactive and intimate sensory performance continually challenges and thrills its audiences. Pigeon Theatre refuse to be limited by the confines of the stage. They prefer to be with the audience, in their world, drawing them playfully, purposefully into the action.

Pigeon Theatre is a Manchester-based performance company that makes small/medium scale theatre, site-specific and multi-media work. We are a physical performance company that specialises in experimental work with unusual spatial arrangements and site-specific work in unusual performance spaces. The company is actively engaged in researching sensual and physical audience engagement and the creation of immersive, intimate audience environments. We aim to make high quality, innovative ‘physical’ performance that challenges and engages audiences, that rethinks the relationship between ‘performer’ and ‘spectator’, that rethinks what a performance space can be, and that is highly entertaining, physically exhilarating, risky, demanding (for spectators and performers) and just plain good fun.

Pigeon Theatre is a group of four women artists who have researched and devised performance-work that addresses questions of site-specificity, of non-traditional theatre spaces, of unconventional and unfamiliar spatial/social arrangements, and of performer/spectator intimacy and interactivity. Our central research concern is in the formal structures of space, environment and architecture and the affect of these on the physical spectating experience. Pigeon Theatre have also examined issues of site-specificity and spectating ‘discomfort’.

Established in 2001, the company has made small and medium scale performance work and has performed at a number of venues including: greenroom, Manchester; the Manchester International Festival; the Library Theatre, Manchester; Stamford Arts Centre; Alsager Arts Centre; the Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards Workcentre, Pontadera, Italy; Charter and Guildhall, Preston; Art 06, Preston; Art 05, Liverpool; Wickham Theatre, Bristol; the Edinburgh Fringe Festivals 2003 and 2005; the International Theatre Festival, Amsterdam; National Review of Live Art; the Xtrax Festival, Manchester; the Frontiers International Theatre Festival, MMU; Street Level Arts Festival, Whitstable; the Commonwealth Games Arts Festival, Manchester; eXpo, Nottingham.

Pigeon Theatre are:
Anna Fenemore – Artistic Director
Louise Bennett – Performer
Gillian Knox – Performer
Amanda Griffiths – Producer
For more information, go to www.pigeontheatre.com