Theatre Makers & Poets

Take Art's offers support, resources and opportunities to Somerset-based theatre and spoken word artists, practitioners, companies, venues and programmers. 

Including:

• opportunities for professional development through workshops, masterclasses and skillshares;
• opportunities for showcasing, sharing work and rigorous debate about contemporary practice;
• offering support for the making, producing, programming and promoting of work;
• advice, signposting, networking and brokering partnerships;
• originating ideas and developing new ways of working;
• extending regional, national and international links to bring high-quality work into Somerset.

Meet the Theatre Team

Our Theatre Projects

Currently Take Art’s BARN project supports Somerset’s emerging theatre-making sector to develop, test and showcase work in a predominantly rural context.

The Diversity Forum for the Performing Arts in Somerset enables people to network, share experiences, expertise and good practice.

Word/Play is a performance poetry on prescription project, which offers a series of workshops led by a spoken word poet to a group of adults experiencing mental health challenges. The workshops are set within a medical settings.