“The future is vital to our company and the young people who make up what is Playbox Theatre. Their voices and concerns about the planet and sustainability must be a core value.”
“We need to ensure that within all our work and project planning we consider how best to do this whilst minimising environmental threats. The Theatre Green Book is a really excellent guide for creating productions and work that requires physical infrastructure. We adhere to its principals through extensive recycling of materials for set design and costume creation.
Within our space, the original plan from Playbox, and the building creatives, was a beautiful minimalism, where always, the young artist would be the principal point of vision. The Dream Factory was never going to be a heavy design Theatre. Materials are recycled across productions wherever possible and seasons may often be themed, and share specific visual items. Costumes are stored across the years the company has been here, and many are continually recycled and adapted to meet the needs of particular design decisions.
Our lighting is now all LED within the performance arena, and this allows us to be flexible and responsible when creating design for production. The expansion and evolution of LED in theatre has been a great asset for environmental and creative decisions.
At all times across our complex, from making work to recycling administrative materials, the emphasis is on impact for environment.
Playbox Theatre cannot create policies alone or know what are the most effective methods to adopt. We look at other arts models and seek to adapt many of these for our needs. The Theatre Green Book has been the guiding mantra for many companies. We have looked at Lyric, Hammersmith, Arcola, National Theatre and European bases to help us develop a way forward.
Aix in Provence opera festival is a global destination. Inspired by their environmental concerns, we further look at the challenge of traffic and access to our building. As a centre serving both urban and rural attendees we anticipate the use of public transport and car shares wherever possible. The services provided are limited in the region but are well used.
The development of our Wild Flower Garden and our ongoing partnership with Clean Planet Foundation and Fairways is a strong visual statement of our concerns and our evolving action plan across the building. We cannot in one time period succeed in all aspirations and plans, so are forging ahead with our policy, which is carefully planned and monitored with advice taken and responses actioned.
Young people are very aware and committed to the action taken, and need few lectures on the future dangers for the planet and our need to be responsible. Within this context the choice of material for production, workshop, and holiday programme, often reflects the different aspects of the ongoing situation. New writing over the past years had supported this with Sarah Woods and Toby Quash being major examples of writers within this area of action.
Playbox Theatre reflect the concerns and aspirations of its young people, staff, guests and supporters across business and the arts and culture. As with all our policies, the Environmental programme has to be a work in progress as new thoughts ideas and practical solutions emerge.”
Our Wildflower Garden
Playbox is working in partnership with the Clean Planet Foundation to install a Wildflower Garden at The Dream Factory.
The new project develops this patch as a space that will become a haven for wildlife and wild plants to thrive. The project will be overseen by Fairways, a local gardening company who will be looking to introduce hedges, plants and wildflowers over the coming months.
“The future is vital to our company and the young people who make up what is Playbox Theatre. Their voices and concerns about the planet and sustainability must be a core value.”
“We need to ensure that within all our work and project planning we consider how best to do this whilst minimising environmental threats. The Theatre Green Book is a really excellent guide for creating productions and work that requires physical infrastructure. We adhere to its principals through extensive recycling of materials for set design and costume creation.
Within our space, the original plan from Playbox, and the building creatives, was a beautiful minimalism, where always, the young artist would be the principal point of vision. The Dream Factory was never going to be a heavy design Theatre. Materials are recycled across productions wherever possible and seasons may often be themed, and share specific visual items. Costumes are stored across the years the company has been here, and many are continually recycled and adapted to meet the needs of particular design decisions.
Our lighting is now all LED within the performance arena, and this allows us to be flexible and responsible when creating design for production. The expansion and evolution of LED in theatre has been a great asset for environmental and creative decisions.
At all times across our complex, from making work to recycling administrative materials, the emphasis is on impact for environment.
Playbox Theatre cannot create policies alone or know what are the most effective methods to adopt. We look at other arts models and seek to adapt many of these for our needs. The Theatre Green Book has been the guiding mantra for many companies. We have looked at Lyric, Hammersmith, Arcola, National Theatre and European bases to help us develop a way forward.
Aix in Provence opera festival is a global destination. Inspired by their environmental concerns, we further look at the challenge of traffic and access to our building. As a centre serving both urban and rural attendees we anticipate the use of public transport and car shares wherever possible. The services provided are limited in the region but are well used.
The development of our Wild Flower Garden and our ongoing partnership with Clean Planet Foundation and Fairways is a strong visual statement of our concerns and our evolving action plan across the building. We cannot in one time period succeed in all aspirations and plans, so are forging ahead with our policy, which is carefully planned and monitored with advice taken and responses actioned.
Young people are very aware and committed to the action taken, and need few lectures on the future dangers for the planet and our need to be responsible. Within this context the choice of material for production, workshop, and holiday programme, often reflects the different aspects of the ongoing situation. New writing over the past years had supported this with Sarah Woods and Toby Quash being major examples of writers within this area of action.
Playbox Theatre reflect the concerns and aspirations of its young people, staff, guests and supporters across business and the arts and culture. As with all our policies, the Environmental programme has to be a work in progress as new thoughts ideas and practical solutions emerge.”
Playbox is working in partnership with the Clean Planet Foundation to install a Wildflower Garden at The Dream Factory.
The new project develops this patch as a space that will become a haven for wildlife and wild plants to thrive. The project will be overseen by Fairways, a local gardening company who will be looking to introduce hedges, plants and wildflowers over the coming months.
