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Faceless

www.facelessco.com
arts@facelessco.com
t : 01924 335985
Wakefield, West Yorkshire
England

Faceless formed in 1990 to increase access to the arts in the outdoors, exploring non-verbal, visual, physical street theatre. By the mid 1990's, walkabout characters were born and the company began to deliver participatory community arts projects in the outdoors. The company now also is involved in event management.
Faceless hosts NASA, National Association of Street Artists and sits on the board of ISAN, Independant Street Arts Network.
Bev Adams, Artistic Director & CEO
Tony Wade, Creative Director
Rik Stack, Associate Director and founder member 1990 to 2004

Productions and Projects

Conference of the Birds

2007 - 2009

Conference of the Birds is a non-verbal, visual, outdoor performance featuring music, masks, flamboyant costumes and puppets.
Conference of the Birds is a funny and poignant epic journey which tells the story of group of individualistic birds who pluck up the courage to leave all they know behind to undertake a dangerous journey - a quest for change. Conference of the Birds was originally devised and performed by a professional cast with a community chorus. In 2008 and 2009, the project was developed to enable the communities to take the lead roles.
During these 3 years, the Faceless company visited 23 communities, rehearsing 23 different community casts into the show and prepared them for a unique public performance in their home towns.
The material proved rich, deep and meaningful to a diverse range of participants. In Coalville we joined in a celebration of the National Forest; in Northern Ireland we used the material to address issues of sectarianism during the year of the 10th anniversary of the Omagh bombing; in Middlesbrough we celebrated diversity at the Boro Mela.
photo: Amanda Crowther

Conference of the Birds

Wheelie Bins

2001

Eager, green gigantic & cleaners of everything and everyone.
Mayhem and absurdity prevail when our overzealous yet ineffectual cleansing manager chaperones two massive interactive rubbish bins through the streets. Populated by a rat and cat puppets, and under the watchful eye of the ardent official, the giant dust-busters taunt and tease their way around events, digesting and discarding items, squirting water and brushing up passers by and street furniture.

Wheelie Bins

Green Man

2000

An environmentally concerned gentle giant.
Based on a legend found in many cultures, our Green Man is an awesome, enchanting, towering mythical tree that has chosen to walk the earth to address concerns for our planet. Accompanied by a keen, pragmatic arborist, the Green Man travels between sparse greenery of town and city centres, merging with vegetation, startling unsuspecting bystanders and perplexing the tree expert. At 7ft tall, Green Man will greet the audience effusively, dangle small children from his branches and avoid dogs wishing to water his roots.
Green Man is an evocative, interactive and humorous moving image for field festivals and urban centres.
photo: Kevin Reynolds

Green Man

Warped Windows

1994 - 1995

Three performance sculptures exploring stillness in performance and movement in sculpture, on the themes of global warming and consumerism.
Concept by Richard Stack, machine by Greville White.

Warped Windows

Faceless
www.facelessco.com
arts@facelessco.com
t: 01924 335985

Unit E, Fox Way
Trinity Business Park
Waldorf Way
Wakefield, West Yorkshire
WF2 8EE
England

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