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New collaborations!

on 18 January 2025

We’re thrilled to share that our March workshop will take the next step in bringing our moonlit theatre dream to life! This exciting event will focus on actualizing a production for real performances, and we couldn’t be happier to collaborate with two incredible Dorset-based theatre companies: Teatro Vivo and Angel Exit Theatre. Together, we’ll gather for a few days of creative exploration to craft a piece we hope will resonate far beyond this moment.

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Workshop video

on 28 September 2024

We have created a video to capture the experience of the March 2023 and March 2024 workshops. It shows the key moments of the Full Moon Theatre workshops in Hooke Park, from design to construction and performance. The workshops spanned over periods of 4 days and included lectures about the history of the projects, the physics of moonlight, lighting simulation and parametric design of the reflectors. After the lectures, we built together moonlight reflectors of various sizes and the big aluminium frames that hold the large format Hypatia and Aristarchus reflectors.

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Call for Proposals: Third Full Moon Theatre Visiting School 2025

on 9 September 2024

The Full Moon Theatre project invites applications from artists and creatives to collaborate on developing, workshopping, and performing a concept piece for our March 2025 site installation. Project Overview This project will create an enchanting outdoor winter performance space, illuminated by the ethereal light of the full moon. While previous iterations have focused on instrumental performances, we are excited to expand our venue to include a broader range of performance types.

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The new Hypatia reflector

on 25 March 2024

The second edition of the Full Moon Theatre Visiting School was held in Hooke Park at the end of March 2024. This time we had the opportunity to build together and test a new, improved, reflector design, that we named Hypatia, after the first female mathematician and astronomer whose life is reasonably well recorded. The new reflector and frame assembly is significantly cheaper, easier to assembly, easier to manouvre and, when disassemled, can fit in the back of a van.

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