I’m preparing for an exhibition and accompanying workshops at Cambridge Artworks and Artspace, and a performance with in situ: theatre at the Cambridge Festival Theatre.
Melissa Pierce Murray
SCULPTURE AS PERFOMANCE
Cambridge Artworks and Artspace
5 Green's Road, Cambridge, CB4 3EF
29 November – 1 December
Melissa is currently developing interactive works for an experimental theatre production, extending her exploration of how sculptural forms can create dynamic encounters between artwork and audience.Bringing together large floor-standing works, performance photography and wall-mounted pewter casts, this exhibition offers an insight into a practice that combines sculpture, movement, narrative and participation.
An opportunity to meet the artist, discover the making process and experience the work in action.
Exhibition Events
Sunday: Pewter Casting Demonstrations 12-2pm,
Sculpture in Action 3-5pm
Monday: Coffee and Conversation 11am-2pm,
Performance 7.30pm
Tuesday: Pewter Casting Workshops 11am-3pm
in situ: theatre presents
1926
A Centenary Celebration of The Festival Theatre
The Festival Theatre
Cambridge Buddhist Centre, Newmarket Road, Cambridge CB5 8DT
In 1926, a wealthy young man, Terence Gray, founded a remarkable experimental theatre – The Cambridge Festival Theatre – dedicated to creating dynamic, imagistic, choreographic theatre, using new technologies of advanced lighting and a revolving stage to create theatre spectacles never seen before in Britain. But it lasted less than 10 years and the theatre was abandoned.
2026. One hundred years later, it is in the safe hands of the Cambridge Buddhist Centre, who have invited a contemporary experimental theatre group – in situ: - to create a celebratory centenary performance.
in situ:’s unique new site-specific performance explores voice, choreography, and space to create a dialogue with the remarkable events of 100 years earlier.
Fragments of performances, popular song, live music, and vocal improvisation delivered by in situ:’s talented ensemble make for a memorable evening. An extraordinary space. A remarkable artistic heritage.
