About Thrust
A formidable ensemble with a reputation for making risky, muscular, inventive theatre.
Thrust Description
A formidable ensemble with a reputation for risk-taking and invention, Thrust unites a family of directors, designers and performers to make daring new work with a young voice and a bold heart. Multi-disciplinary collaborative practice is at the heart of everything we do.
“A great showcase of young talent. ” The Argus
Notable for bold visual and dramaturgical interventions on text-based work, our programming foregrounds risk, innovation and interrogation of form. We’re not interested in making work that plays it safe: if we’re not taking a risk to make the work, we don’t see the point in making it.
We are gathering a reputation as a company known for constantly reassessing the theatrical form: our ensemble of interdisciplinary artists seamlessly blend performance with scenography, stagecraft with technology, and form with content. Critics and audiences alike regularly describe our work as brave, elegant, striking, sophisticated and urgent.
“A fascinating twist on the theatrical form. ” FringeGuru
Our radical stripped-bare revival of Pornography was described by theatre writer and academic Pedro de Senna as “one of the most powerful productions I’ve seen anywhere in contemporary British theatre”; meanwhile Charlotte Thompson has hailed our intermedial adaptations of The Bell Jar, On Chesil Beach and 6 Characters In Search Of An Author as “some of the most visually striking theatre I have seen. ”
“Their work is characterised by hybridity, which pushes and layers its expressiveness. ” Dr Charlotte Thompson
We don’t stop with our own work. Through our unique scratch series More Storm we advocate companies and artists devoted to changing the way theatre is made. Dana Segal praised the event as “easily the most beautiful, professional and exciting scratch night in London”.
The combination of our daring and ambition with a theatrical vocabulary that is unique among emerging companies makes Thrust a force to be reckoned with.
“A talented company with great imagination. ” Julia Pascal