The pages on this website document actor training and interventions during student induction weeks between 2010 and 2014.

Richard Talbot & Carran Waterfield’s award-winning collaborations with museum professionals have been cited as exemplary in the fields of both museum studies and interactive performance. For production details see the Triangle Theatre website:

 

https://triangletheatre.carranwaterfield.co.uk/

Initially inspired by Coventry’s World War Two archives and collections, the Whissell & Williams regime is a 1940s bureaucracy that meddles in institutions, archives and popular historical propaganda to expose the contradictions of contemporary notions of hierarchy and war.

From the early development in gallery spaces at The Herbert Museum and Art Gallery in Coventry the Whissell and Williams project evolved into large-scale immersive theatre performances in remote locations. Alongside performance, and archival research, Richard Talbot and Carran Waterfield created videos and directed child participants’ hand-held footage.

The projects have been analysed in depth and supported with project descriptions, transcribed performance texts, critical analysis and interviews with the company and the many young participants, trainee actors, museum professionals and educationalists who have worked on these projects.

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