Filter is a new breed of theatre collective launched in 2003 by actors Oliver Dimsdale, Ferdy Roberts and musician Tim Phillips.
It brings together actors, musicians, technicians, designers, writers and directors to create new works of original theatre as well as thrilling incarnations of existing texts, resulting in a platform for some of the most exciting theatre work around.
Filter has had an extraordinary rise since its first production, Faster at BAC where it was a runaway hit and received rave reviews. Faster went on to be performed at the Lyric Hammersmith, on national tour with This Way Up and to great acclaim in Frankfurt and New York.
Since its first project Filter has worked with the National Theatre on Caucasian Chalk Circle; at the Lyric Hammersmith with Water, Three Sisters and A Midsummer Night's Dream; and with the RSC on Twelfth Night and the recent Silence.
Filter’s radical and riotous interpretation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night reflects
the anarchic energy running throughout the play, through ground-
Filter creates the world of the play through sound, making the whole experience more akin to a rock concert than classical theatre, with a stage covered in cables, synthesisers, microphones, instruments and amplifiers.
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