Adult Company Summer Term 2026 goes on sale on Wed 18 Feb at 10am.
Summer Term 2026 — 10 weeks
Term starts: Thursday 30 Apr
Half Term (no sessions): Thursday 28 May
Term ends: Thursday 9 Jul
Session time: Thursdays, 7—9pm
About the Term
Music and Theatre have an amazing relationship; either one can enhance, juxtapose or even completely transform the other. During this term, we’ll use a variety of approaches to interrogate and develop the ways in which we can create, analyse and utilise music when developing theatre. These will include:
- Creating music for scripted work
- Devising around an existing piece of music
- Creating versatile music that follows theatrical rhythms
All levels of experience are welcome and ability to play a musical instrument is not required. Whether you consider yourself completely unmusical or you’re a virtuoso, what’s most important is the willingness to give things a go! We will apply scalable approaches to all activities, so there will always be a version that can fit your level of confidence.
Adult Company Director: Guy Hughes
Guy is a Bristol-based actor, composer, musical director and vocal coach.
He has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Cheek By Jowl, Shakespeare's Globe and Bristol Old Vic, under directors including Declan Donellan OBE, Emma Rice and Tom Morris.
Guy holds an LRAM in Musical Theatre Singing and has studied the Estill Voice Training under Anne-Marie Speed, founder of The Voice Explained.
As a composer, highlights include Our Wilder Family – a large-scale drone show for 27,000 people, co-written with BAFTA and Ivor Novello-winning Dan Jones – and The Lost Musical Works of Willy Shakes, named in the Telegraph's Top 20 at Edinburgh Fringe 2019. He is long-standing composer and musical director for internationally-renowned cycling theatre company The HandleBards.
