Tangle Company
Tangle Company was a six year actor and audience development project which ran from 2013 until 2018.
Drawn from the best of England’s African, Black British and Caribbean theatre talent, Tangle Company was our resident ensemble, updated yearly and was at the heart of all our work. The artists represented the company on tour, helped shape our programme and collaborated on an ongoing basis with our Artistic Director to develop their craft as performers and singers. Many Company members were also part of our practitioner teaching team, working with communities across South West England through our various Discovery projects.
Tangle Company 2018 consisted of four African – Caribbean actor singers who performed a remounted version Water, Bread and Salt written and directed by Anna Coombs with a capella songs arranged by Allyson Devenish.
Tangle Company 2017 consisted of eight African – Caribbean actor singers whom performed a brand new collective theatre work – No One Is An Island, comprising two newly created poems.
Tangle Company 2016 performed a brand new collective theatre work –Towards The Sun , by Patricia Cumper MBE, Chino Odimba, Louisa Adjoa Parker and Paula B Stanic.
Our 2015 ensemble performed Steering Through Stars by Paula B Stanic, and our 2014 ensemble performed the original Water, Bread and Salt, written and directed by Anna Coombs with a capella songs arranged by Allyson Devenish.
In 2013 our ensemble consisted of sixteen actor singers (eight men and eight women) who performed two brand new commissioned works. The first was I Have a Dream, a collection of ten Shakespearean-style contemporary sonnets from multiple authors each inspired by Martin Luther King’s iconic speech. The writers were Alia Bano, Inua Ellams, Rex Obano, Chino Odimba, Louisa Adjoa Parker, Christopher Rodriguez, Paula B Stanic, Tawona Sithole, Pauline Walker, and Andrew Whaley.
The second commission was a new poetic piece by Patricia Cumper MBE. Both formed part of our Dream Nation project and were presented with acapella songs arranged by Allyson Devenish.
Tangle Company 2014
Msimisi Dlamini, Ayo-Dele Edwards, Beth Ita, Michael Offei, John Pfumojena, Elexi Walker and Stephanie Yamson.
Tangle Company 2013
Segun Akingbola, Adebayo Bolaji, Sabina Cameron, Chipo Chung, Msimisi Affolderbach Dlamini, Tunji Falana, Sasha Frost, Shereena Glean, Karlina Grace, Akiya Henry, Beth Ita, Takunda Kramer, Sibusiso Mamba, Tonderai Munyevu, Michael Offei, Law Thompson, Trevor A. Toussaint and Stephanie Yamson. Our Trainee Tangle Company Actor was John Pfumojena.
Tangle Company 2018
Munashe Chirisa, Lola May, Marshall Defender Nyanhete and Hannah Sinclair Robinson.
Tangle Company 2017
Gabriel Akuwudike, Antonia Kemi Coker, Ayo-Dele Edwards, Shereena Glean, Alanna Leslie, Milton Lopes, Michael Offei, and John Pfumojena.
Tangle Company 2016
Shereena Glean, Sabina Cameron, Antonia Kemi Coker, Ayo-Dele Edwards, Joseph Adelakun, Michael Offei, Msimisi Dlamini, and Tunji Falana.
Tangle Company 2015
Sabina Cameron, Antonia Kemi Coker, Msimisi Dlamini, Alanna Leslie, Milton Lopes, Sibusiso Mamba, Michael Offei and Karlina Grace Paseda.