StevensonThompson:     Is the result of an exciting collaboration between two theatre makers: Sian Stevenson and Jayne Thompson.  The company works with specific communities and groups to explore participants stories and experiences,celebrating the individual through a performance process which seeks a highly visual and physical aesthetic.
Challenging perceived notions of particular groups or communities the work asks its audience and participants to look again, seeking to reveal the extraordinary in the ordinary.

The company produces high quality workshop programmes and performance events as a result of the collaborations between them and the participants.

Constants: 2 artists, a specific group, a workshop process, a skill
Variants: the group, the skill explored, the content and outcome
Essentials: Collaboration, integrity, quality, enjoyment, celebration, the element of chance, a desire to take risks 

Artistic Directors:

Sian Sian has worked as a freelance artist in the performing arts for the past twenty plus years, performing, directing and choreographing. Her particular areas of interest are movement based performance and applied theatre. Companies she has worked with include The Hairy Marys, Gloria Theatre Co, Shared Experience, Plain Clothes, English Touring Opera, The Guildhall and Grange Opera. For her own company, Scratch Arts, she produced numerous community and education based projects, such as Ballroominating (Film and performance installation focussing on ballroom dancers in their 70’s and 80’s) and movement based work at Kent based schools, in particular, St Nicholas School Canterbury. Sian is a long term collaborator with Bobby Baker daily life Ltd and is currently working on Sit Down Durational Chit Chat, Peas for Peace & Mad Gyms for the Olympics. Sian is a lecturer at The University of Kent Drama department.

Jayne Jayne has worked within performance and community contexts for many years. Her  interest  within community contexts is driven by  research and practice in multi-media, verbatim theatre and the untrained body. Jayne has worked as a  performer and facilitator on a wide range of performance partnerships. Her performance includes Rosemary Lee, Wendy Houstoun.She has extensive experience in producing creative learning and teaching programmes across Kent, with particular expertise in sustainability and legacy.  Currently she is exploring the potential of puppetry to extend learning within the foreign language curriculum.  Jayne is a drama lecturer at the University of Kent, and subject specialist for the Partnerships development programme.