Frantic Assembly

Frantic Assembly creates thrilling, energetic and unforgettable theatre. The company aims to attract new and young audiences with work that is modern. Frantic Assembly's unique physical style combines movement, design, music and text.

Frantic Assembly is lead by director Scott Graham. Scott created the company with Steven Hoggett and Vicki Middleton in 1994 and strives to collaborate with many of today's most inspiring artists. Frantic Assembly has built a strong reputation as one of the most exciting companies in the country. The company has also performed, created and collaborated in 30 different countries across the world. 

"It's really hard to shock and surprise a theatre audience these days. Unless you are in the gifted hands of Frantic Assemby"
"A play that will stay in your head and your heart long after the curtain comes down, due to it's originality"
Western Morning News 

The idea of Physical Theatre really appeals to me for our given Unit 3 theme "Conflict." As Physical Theatre is very energetic and unforgettable it achieves the dramatic side you expect to see when you think of conflict.

Choreography for the "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time" 

Frantic Assembly will be beneficial for us as a group when thinking about devising a piece of work with the stimulus "Conflict" in mind. We as a drama group were lucky enough to see their performance of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time" their stunning use of portraying emotions through movement created a very memorable capturing piece of work. To use something similar to this in our own work would hopefully allow us to create similar tones for the audience maybe in a more striking way when using it to portray conflict. 

The "franticness" of it (excuse the pun) could make the audience feel very on edge if the conflict was something they could relate too as some of the movements are so difficult to keep track off the audience could almost end up feeling very involved in a performance.