Name (of organisation)
Shift Key Theatre
Contact Person
Gordon Meredith
Website Address
Email Address
Overview
About Shift Key Theatre
Shift Key Theatre is a creative organisation working within the field of theatre, museums and audio-visuals. With a background in museums, interpretive planning, theatre and script writing, Shift Key occupies a unique place in the market. By drawing on experience from across a wide spectrum of disciplines they create performances rooted in real life stories and authentic narratives that are as entertaining as they are informative.
What we do
We tell stories, real stories. Real stories about real people, real events and places.
Stories that tell us about history, who we were, how we used to live and what went on.
We tell these stories through performance – in the theatre, in a museum or gallery or a historic building. We bring real people and events to life in thought provoking interpretations that change people’s perceptions. We make museum collections and stories accessible and relatable through well researched, carefully written and well produced productions that leave people talking.
Additional Services
With a creative design background and a love of theatre and the arts, we also design theatre posters, event flyers and festival brochures. We provided the designs and artwork for East Riding Theatre’s full range of promotional literature between 2013 and 2023 and also for Stage4Beverley since 2018. We have also just completed the festival programme design for the Beverley Puppet Festival for 2024.
Further Details
Shift Key Theatre are currently working on the development of a new play about William Smith, the father of English Geology. Currently in the preliminary stages, the research and development work has so far included a national tour of Natural History and Geological collections as well as meetings with archivists at the Oxford Museum of Natural History and the Rotunda Museum in Scarborough, a museum that was built under the guidance of Smith himself.