KILN'' (Formerly known as ''Kindle Theatre')'' is a
theatre company
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perfor ...
based in
Birmingham
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,
England
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. The company was founded in 2005 by Emily Ayres, Sam Fox, Jess Mackinnon and Olivia Winteringham, and is now run by three Artistic Directors and a Producer. The company halved in size from 8 members to 4 at Christmas 2005, and in 2006 launched a community arts project to produce a
site-specific work in Smethwick's
Chance Brothers
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The Chance fam ...
glassworks. In 2011 the company was described as "one of the best emerging companies in the country" by
Andy Field in ''
The Guardian
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'', and in 2013 the company was appointed as an associate company of
Birmingham Rep
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.
References
External links
* {{official website, http://kindletheatre.org.uk
Theatre companies in Birmingham, West Midlands
2005 establishments in England