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2025 Full Moon Theatre workshop experience

on 22 March 2025

We are delighted to announce the successful completion of our 2025 workshop, co-organized by Full Moon Theatre’s technical director, Francesco Anselmo, and Design and Research lead, Yunni Cho. Hosted at the Architectural Association’s Hooke Park in Dorset, UK, and kindly supported by ARUP Phase 2, this year’s workshop brought together seven international participants to assemble and build reflectors of all shapes and sizes. In a unique collaboration with two locally based theatre companies—Angel Exit (co-directed by Tasmin Fessey and Lynne Forbes) and Teatro Vivo (co-directed by Kas Darley and Mark Stevenson)—we presented a theater play that reinterpreted the witches from Macbeth.

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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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