
Vertebra
Experimental artist-led Theatre

IIn an Icy land of ruins, a human being and a polar bear are meeting in an encounter of surviving the Anthropocene.
“An Ice Thing to Say” blends Ice installation, music, and physical theatre to explore our impact on nature. Drawing on inspiration from Erich Fromm's book 'To Have or to Be?' and Ecoscenography, we invite the audience into a multi-sensory experience of our inner and outer icy landscapes. We attempt to challenge the idea that the human being is at the center of the world and we attempt to construct an embodied inquiry into 'what has gone wrong?'
Performances
Theatre for the Senses - The Gisborne Herald NZ
Alongside our main artistic programme, Vertebra Theatre creates Participatory and Arts in Health Projects in UK and abroad.
Our projects are responsive to the needs of the communities we are engaging with. We bring devising theatre, puppetry, animation and intergenerational work to promote social inclusion and build well-being in health care, community, educational and prison settings.


It's a ceremony, a ritual -
you should go out of the theatre more human than when you went in.