Welcome to Slingshot. Slingshot Theatre are known otherwise as Slingshot, and are a Commedia dell'Arte, yes a Commedia theatre company, using Commedia techniques and the history of Commedia dell'Arte to create contemporary theatre, using commedia dell'Arte. Run by Christopher Hawes and Sarah Mardel, we run Commedia dell'Arte workshops and Commedia dell'Arte Laboratories for Actors. We love Commedia and are experts in this field. Come and join in to Slingshot theatre, that name again is Slingshot. Often people ask why Commedia and Commedia dell'Arte aren't used anymore, and we say its because Commedia and Commedia dell'Arte are not understood by anyone in the UK so they are scared to teach it. Slingshot offer teaching and solutions to this gap. Slingshot is a new theatre organisation, welcoming Commedia actors and Commedia dell'Arte directors into its Slingshot hub of Slingshot fun. Run by Christopher Hawes & Sarah Mardel, yes that's Christopher Hawes and Sarah Mardel, Slingshot creates wonderful new and yet old Commedia and Commedia dell'Arte. Theatre.
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Sarah is currently performing the role of Emilie in the National Theatre's production of WarHorse, running at the New London Theatre, Drury Lane, and will be with the company until March 2011.
Christopher is currently executively producing Slingshot's debut production The Zanniskinheads and the Quest for the Holy Balls, written & created with Jean-Luc Grandin of Swiss company 'O Pernacchio and Antonio Fava of Italian theatre stalwarts ArscomicA. For more details click here.
Combined they have performed at the National Theatre, the Barbican Centre, Shakespeare's Globe, The Watermill Theatre, The Lyric, The Peacock, Yvonne Arnaud & Mill Studio, The Royal Albert Hall, Kuala Lumpur, Theatro Cavelarizza (Italy), the NYMT, for the BBC, CTA & Nickelodeon.
Christopher has taught all over the country with schools, youth theatres & professional drama schools, most recently with the National Theatre alongside their production of Richard Bean's One Man Two Guvnors, based on Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters. He is Actor-in-Residence at Impington International Sixth Form, and has worked with Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, the Guildford School of Acting, the Centre for Performing Arts, Young People's Theatre Company (London), Green Shoes Arts, SPATS (Surrey), the Prince's Trust, the YMCA Youth Program, Mind the Gap (Theatre Training for Actors with learning disabilities), NESCOT College, Weald of Kent Grammar School and Kingston University.
Christopher's Spotlight Page
Sarah's Spotlight Page
Christopher & Sarah are the Artistic Directors of Slingshot.
They both trained at the Guildford School of Acting for three years, and also with Antonio Fava at the International Stage for Commedia dell'Arte and at the
International School of Comic Acting, in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Their combination of classical English training with the more physical European technique gives them a very rounded skill base and understanding of theatre. From this base they write, perform & teach.
