OUR WORK
ORCHESTRA
NT CONNECTIONS '24
A youth orchestra practises during half term holidays in preparation for a concert. Unexpected events cause them all to interrogate their relationship with success. How do you protect the joy of the process whilst also wanting to be the best? Is striving for artistic excellence worth the pressure of losing a soul?
TALLER THAN THE TREES
Old Fire Station, Oxford, March 2023
Breathe, inhale, touch the bark, watch the clouds scud across the sky – a moment with Nature can make us feel whole, better, ‘taller than the trees.’ It can connect us with the voices of the long gone and open- up vistas of the future. We are part of it, so why are we intent on harming ourselves?
Small but Mighty interviewed everyone from beekeepers to climate change deniers, from scientists to gardeners, from grandparents to toddlers; and created a performance that reveals the changing relationships, and the love and tenderness for the thing that we cannot live without.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
September 2021
After a galling Covid cancellation of our Summer Performance at the beautiful Abbey Ponds, the brilliant Eynsham Great Big Green Week Festival hosted us for their September performance!
Small But Mighty had just begun rehearsing a sequel to the Tempest and a performance of Hamlet when Coronavirus struck. We had to adapt our work as we rehearsed online and off. Now we hope that we can show you our performances in the flesh, but here is a taster of our lockdown output.
POSITIVE TALES FOR NEGATIVE TIMES
We have been busy over lockdown filming two performances by new and established writers. The Pack by Steph Smith and Is This a Fairytale by Bea Webster.
ONLINE DEVISING
With two of our groups we have devised online participatory performances, 'Rollin Rollin' a mad cap, dice rolling frolic, and another play inspired by the winding mazes and bucolic delights of Jill Barklem's Brambly Hedge. Keep your eyes peeled for more details.
CORONAVIRUS TIMECAPSULE
In association with the award winning Company 3 we set out to create weekly videos reflecting our experiences of the first lockdown. Check out the work on our Youtube channel.