Welcome To Season 2012

Dear HighTider,

I’m very proud to bring you all the details of HighTide Festival 2012, based at The Cut, The Rifle Hall and Printworks in our home of Halesworth, Suffolk.

We produced four productions in 2011. In 2012 we’re producing eighteen.

Why? Because all eighteen have at their heart extraordinary playwrights who have asked to share their stories with you.

How? Thanks to you. The HighTide Festival is increasingly known as a home where innovative artists are rewarded by playing to engaged and game audiences.

And so, this Festival is welcoming many new partners: established theatres in Headlong, The Nuffield Southampton and the Public Theater in New York; leading companies in nabokov, Bad Physics and curious directive; and the next generation in Lucy Jackson, Utter and Jon McLeod.

An increase in size has enabled greater variety, and there are too many ‘firsts’ to list them all here. We develop and produce all the work you will see, and as such we hope you experience the festival as we intend it: by seeing everything. The two weekends are full of events, morning through night. And it’s ‘Pay What You Can’ for shows in the weekdays if you prefer to spread out your viewing.

I look forward to introducing you to our artists. Please do join us on weekend evenings from 8pm for an informal drink in The Rifle Hall, our latest festival venue.

Any questions about the shows, please do ask – [email protected] and please do spread the word about the Festival, you can find our website, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube all here.

I’m also very pleased to announce our new partnership with IdeasTap, full details are below.

All the best and see you at the Festival,

Steven Atkinson

Artistic Director

IdeasTap: A New Partnership

The HighTide Literary Department exists to discover and nurture exciting new plays by exceptional emerging writers and has quickly become an engine room for new writing in the UK. We are delighted to announce that we will now be partnering with IdeasTap and all script submissions will now go via our new partner site. For more details on the partnership please click here, or for details on how to submit your script to us please go here.

From Our Friends….

PLACE: Taking the Waters

18 & 19 February 2012, Aldeburgh Music

This year, Aldeburgh Music’s new cross-arts winter weekend takes to the waters with a wide-ranging exploration of the meanings of the marine, the estuarine and the waterway in various film premiers, art, literature and thought.