SATURDAY 4 JULY 2020 LIVE VIA ZOOM Our first digital festival saw 100 happy campers join us for an evening of karaoke, making, storytelling and loads more, delivered by some of our favourite Creation creatives. Over 25 acts took over our three virtual stages for three hours of Creation madness. The festival was a fundraising…
After a cancelled run at The London Library due to the Coronavirus outbreak, our eerily prescient re-imagining of The Time Machine by HG Wells took audiences across the world on a journey through shifting timelines. Adapted for Zoom, this production incorporated research on our future from The Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities into Jonathan…
VIA ZOOM 11 APRIL – 10 MAY 2020 Adapted from previous year’s performance around Oxford’s Osney Mead Industrial Estate, The Tempest LIVE conjured up a storm across the globe during the initial stages of Covid-19’s lockdown in this co-production with Northern Ireland’s Big Telly Theatre Company. Bridging 1,500 households from 30 different countries, we were…
THE LONDON LIBRARY 29 FEBRUARY – 5 APRIL 2020 An immersive re-imagining of the HG Wells iconic text, The Time Machine, saw us re-invent and piece back together a world in which the present is endlessly shifting and the future is strange and uncertain. Lead through the mahogany soaked surroundings of The London Library, our…
1 FEBRUARY – 7 MARCH 2020 BLACKWELL’S BOOKSHOP, OXFORD Our cast of five actor-musicians took centre stage in this musical adaptation of the Dickens classic, filled with scandal, secrets and obsession. Esther does not know who she is by birth, but when her Godmother dies and she is sent to Bleak House, that’s when her…
30 November 2019 – 5 January 2020, The North Wall Arts Centre “I can give her no greater power than she already has” A hedgehog, a wizard and a pair of unhelpful crows joined Gerda on her journey to find her best friend, Kai. For the first time in Creation history, a live musician provided…
19 – 22 DECEMBER THE MANOR AT WESTON ON THE GREEN After the previous Christmas’ production, we couldn’t resist setting up camp once again in possibly the most christmassy setting around. Open log fires, a three course meal or afternoon tea and a classic tale delivered by two performers offered possibly the most heartwarming experience…
29 OCTOBER – 1 NOVEMBER MULTIPLE VENUES Popping up in James Street Tavern, The Covered Market and other spaces, our raucous three-hander adapted Chaucer’s conflicting tale into a modern adaptation of greed and trickery. Written and adapted by Christmas favourite Gari Jones, The Pardoner’s Tale preached and pick-pocketed it’s way into the 21st century, 800+…
23 AUGUST – 28 SEPTEMBER THE COVERED MARKET Our two third-ages heroes rolled in to Oxford’s iconic Covered Market, along with a vintage car, motorbike and tiny caravan. With a script written by firm favourite Jonathan Holloway, this adaptation took the much loved characters of Don and Sancho, or Dom and Sam as we found…
7 – 8 SEPTEMBER 2019CHAPEL PORTH BEACH For our first ever show in Cornwall we took to the beautiful Chapel Porth Beach to present tales of wild women and daring goddesses. Gathered around a roaring fire in the early autumn sunshine our audiences of just 50 were transported to viking halls and climate protests. We…
