Reconnect through Theatre
“Come you Spirits will take you to a place just between the human and the ethereal, to demonstrate just how close we are through language and our connection to the natural world.”
Laura Heuston, Theatre Travels
We’ll welcome you
offer a sense of belonging, feeling part of a tribe.
We’ll raise the vibration frequency of everything and everyone in the space to our natural state, through wonderful storytelling, powerful sound and immersion in nature.
You’ll be seen, heard, and enjoy a renewed motivation to reach out, find your purpose and live into it.
The Troupe
We’re experienced professional actors who have worked internationally and across Australia, seasoned in Shakespeare and classical theatre, film and TV. We are Jo Bloom (The British Shakespeare Company, Australian Shakespeare Company), Charles Mayer (Pop-Up Globe, ANZAC Girls), Sontaan Hopson (Risen, The Book of Job), Alec Ebert (God of Carnage, Of Mice and Men), and Ciarán O’Riordan (Chimerica, What Have You Done). Brandon Read (Our Country’s Good, Happy Africa) is our composer and deliverer of music and sound, live, at every performance.
We are also healers and energy workers who have walked our own paths of healing and sat in our own dark nights of the soul. We’ve done the work, done the research, we’re living our passion and are on point with our purpose. We’ve combined everything we know to be true in experiences to lift us all out of the foggy haze of madness and strike amazement to our drowsy spirits.
“Yes, it is possible to perform these plays with only a cast of four actors, with each actor only as the one character. To achieve this seemingly impossible task, then you need to cast these magnificent four actors.”
Lynn Belvedere, Sydney Arts Guide
multicultural ancient wisdom
This goes beyond conventional theatre and into healing, using a unique soundscape to support the shows that takes the audience on a journey. The speakers in the space are supported by large, wooden, constructed flat reflectors that look like megaliths from Stonehenge. These are positioned at specific points that hold the principles of sacred geometry and temple building – they have a strong visual impact, but they’re very much designed to bounce sound around the space. In ancient temples, like the ones that are 10,000 years old, they used giant stones to reflect and resonate sound in the space – we’re using sound in such a way that the whole body hears it.
Ancient cultures used sound as part of their healing and spiritual journey in temples. They focused on different sounds to affect the different energy centres of the body (the chakras) to uplift them. And we’re using these same principals. We strive to raise the frequency of the audience into a higher state of consciousness.
The set up of the theatre spaces and the activation of those sites using intention is key.
We perform at dawn and dusk. There is something very special about performing at dawn. It feels like the world is asleep, and you are asleep – it’s dark, it’s been dark for hours, and then bang – sunlight. It brings everything to life, including you.
“The actors seem to genuinely be at play in their delivery, and as such are able to engage with the purity of feeling that Shakespeare is so brilliantly able to encapsulate.”
Laura Heuston, Theatre Travels
Chi energy
Experience the exchange of Chi energy between actors and audience, as taught by Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s master of Chi for Performance, Ken Rea.
It’s the Chi in Tai Chi, the Prana of India, Ether to the Ancient Greeks, Ki in Japan, and The Force for the Jedi. It’s the life force that flows through us, harnessed, amplified and focussed through Chakra points. In personal and professional communication this optimises effectiveness, as demonstrated on stage. You can use it to be the best fricken human you can be – honest, grounded, in service of the earth and others, operating from love and not fear.“Whatever your views of energy and spirituality may be, opening your heart to these actors and their practice will not be an emotional let down.”
Laura Heuston, Theatre Travels
children, students, parents & teachers
WHATEVER THE WEATHER
Rainbows seem to appear whenever we perform Romeo & Juliet. Audiences and workshop participants tell us how much they feel connected to the land, to each other and to a greater sense of themselves after experiencing these shows. the audience don’t want to leave the space. People are hugging, weeping – adults, children, infants. There is a hum of the human spirit that exists in the space that didn’t before. No one cared if it rained or was cold during the shows, they are captivated. There was even a pelican circling the sky directly above the performance space in Kangaroo Valley after the shows – soaking up the divine energy.
“And if it pours, we just put up our umbrellas and soldier on, yes?” Gillian, 91
DONATIONS
Enthused by can’t make it to the shows? A donation of $25 will fire your support into the Come you Spirits collective working non-stop behind the scenes to make it all happen. You will be posted a Come you Spirits t-shirt as a reminder of your own 7 magnificent energy centres – calling you to bring the spirit of the elephant, the crocodile, the ram, the dove, the lion, the owl and the butterfly.
“Watching Come You Spirits perform The Tempest
at dawn of the Spring Equinox
is utterly indistinguishable from magic.”
Laura Heuston, Theatre Travels
