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The Summer Shift is an intensive working retreat in beautiful surroundings for those wanting to explore new ways of working and experiment with different processes and approaches to making theatre and performance.

With a range of high quality workshops and performance laboratories led by some of the world's leading practitioners, The Summer Shift offers the opportunity to take time out and away from the usual pressures of everyday life to explore your creative practice amongst like-minded participants from around the world.



The Summer Shift is comprised of workshops, talks, discussions and evening events Participants can either enrol on individual workshops or choose their own ten-day pathway through a series of workshops exploring innovative processes of composition working with landscape, soundscape and visual scores, music-theatre, magic and burlesque, interactive theatre and physical training.



This year's CPR Summer Shift is a very British affair, indeed. The UK's theatre and performance ecology has long been distinguished as much for its diversity as for its innovation and experiment, as well as - perhaps - a certain peculiarly British idiosyncrasy and sense of the absurd. Each of our guest artists this year have long been significant and formative players in the experimental theatre ecology here in the UK and have developed and sustained distinctive work over many years. The Summer Shift 2007 brings them together to share their compositional strategies, and aesthetic methods and practices through a process of investigation and experiment with Summer Shift participants. The work offers immersion in a range of disciplines and approaches and will take place both in and out of the studio, using sites and environments ranging from the great British seaside to the British Country House and Estate, from Victorian follies to disused quarries.



On our doorstep we have some of the most extraordinary and beautiful landscapes in the UK - Cardigan Bay stretches from Aberystwyth both to the mountains of Snowdonia and to the Pembrokeshire coastal path. Indoors you may spend time in the CPR's multi-cultural Resource Centre delving into performance archives of videos, books, CDs and DVDs or work in the studio, developing your own project in tandem, building on the workshop training.



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