We Were Here < and pilotLIGHT Theatre Company present BRIGHTEST AND BEST from 15 February - 10 March at the Half Moon, Herne Hill. We need your support to make this production the very brightest and best that it can be. So, if you can't come along - and even, if you can - please support us by pledging a donation through WeFund - every penny counts.

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We Were Here < and pilotLIGHT Theatre Company present...

BRIGHTEST AND BEST

I just didn’t know how to tell you. I didn’t know how to say, ‘I’m fucking it all up because I thought I was supposed to be better than this.’ How are you meant to admit that to anyone? Without sounding ridiculous.

Rob’s losing faith.
He’s failing at work, and he’s lying about it.
He’s getting nosebleeds....

It must be time for a change.

Brightest and Best is a play about how we get trapped by the choices we make, how education prepares us for life and how it screws us up. What happens when we decide it’s time to make a difference, and how a new start can feel like the beginning of the end.

Brightest and Best by Matthew Morrison
15 February 2012 - 10 March 2012
Half Moon, Herne Hill

WE WERE HERE <

We Were Here < is a theatre company in flux; progressing, learning, evolving, constantly in motion. We Were Here < is Natalie Ibu and a family of Associate Artists.

In the long term, we aim to be a creative ensemble for emerging practitioners seeking to develop their craft through experimentation and exploration. As a fledgling company, we work on a project-to-project basis – inviting artists to work with us as Artistic Associates.

We Were Here < asks it’s artists to take control of each other’s professionaldevelopment – we believe that by fearlessly engaging in the work, we facilitate and push forward each other’s development. We are responsible only to ourselves, each other and to the work. We believe that you’re only a Writer when you’re writing, you’re only a Director when you’re in the rehearsal room and so on and so forth. We think that practice makes perfect, or at least informed, confident and curious practitioners. We can talk the talk but we want to walk the walk. We ask our artists to be hungry, fascinated and bold.
We are devoted to telling stories – from large sweeping plot driven epics to intimate tales of ordinary people and everyday occurrences. The potential of the theatrical experience is our stimulus; We Were Here < is open to, and not limited by, the possibilities of free play, text, site, sound, and story.

Working as an ensemble, through collaboration and the marrying of art forms, We Were Here < asks – but doesn’t resolve – what theatre should be; what it should taste, sound, look and feel like.

Through innovative collaboration, We Were Here < aims to assert itself as a company of engaging and exciting theatre makers.

We Were Here < but we have already moved on.

NATALIE IBU > ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Natalie Ibu is a freelance Theatre Director, Producer, Dramaturg, Script Reader, Workshop Leader and Youth Theatre Director. In 2010/11, she was the inaugural Associate Director (Warehouse) for HighTide Festival Productions. In July 2009, she completed a year’s residency at the Royal Court as their Trainee Director. Since graduating with a First Class Honours degree in 2004, she has completed residencies with New York Theatre Workshop, National Theatre Studio, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Court, Citizens' Theatre, Contact and New Perspectives. She has been awarded bursaries from ITV Directors Scheme, the Federation of Scottish Theatre, Scottish Arts Council and Arts Council East Midlands. Awards include Dewar Arts Award for exceptional artists under 30, Time Warner Ignite 2, IdeasTap Innovator’s Award and the Lilian Baylis Award for Theatrical Excellence. As Director, credits include readings and productions at Tiata Fahodzi, Jersey Arts Trust, The Old Vic Tunnels, Theatre503, The Gate, Latitude, HighTide, BAC, Oran Mor, Traverse, Royal Court, ATC at the Young Vic, OVNV at The Old Vic, Waterloo East and The Vineyard Theatre in New York, Royal Lyceum Youth Theatre at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Citizens Young Co. at the Citizens’, G12, The Arches, Contact and TWP at Nottingham Playhouse.