These recent times have been some of the hardest challenges we've faced and as a community, it hit us pretty hard. However during these difficult times, here at Pocket Size Theatre, we wanted to spread a little positivity and celebrate the work that people are still managing to generate during these difficult times. In this ‘Spotlight On’ series, we'll be speaking to our friends in the industry to share what they are up to during these challenging times and how you can be involved.
Let's stick together, share the love and get through this as a community!
Here we chatted with Emma and Bettina from Abeille Theatre- a London based female lead theatre company.
Can you give us a little intro into who Abeille are and what you do?
Abeille Theatre is a female-led theatre company, co-founded by us (Bettina Paris & Emma Rowbotham), that aims to create fresh, innovative, and inspiring new work that, we hope, will strike up a conversation between audiences of all generations. Besides making our own work, we also offer affordable, process-led workshops to creatives within the industry.
What made you want to start Abeille?
After finishing our studies at Arts Educational Schools, we stumbled upon an opportunity to create a new, original show for a festival promoting emerging companies and creatives. We applied with an idea and we were one of the selected few to form part of the event. This opportunity allowed us to create our first show titled ‘Little Big Girl’ and it was after its debut, that we decided we wanted to keep Abeille Theatre going. We knew we wanted to invest our time and energy into making it something bigger, by looking for and creating more opportunities for ourselves as a company.
