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The Rare Theatricall is a collective of musicians, dancers, actors and visual artists who take old
music as the point of departure for creating new work. United by a belief that in this music there is a
depth of expression still to be uncovered, we find inspiration and illumination in the collaborative
process.

Our projects are all based on pieces of music from sometime before 1800, played live on historical
instruments as part of a performance involving any number of other artistic disciplines. Recent work
includes an evening of fairy-tale storytelling in a Shoreditch warehouse with actors, marionettes and
dancers, based on fantastical 17th-century string music; a candlelit crypt in Clerkenwell was the
venue for 'Swift as a Shadow', which paired English Baroque theatre music with retellings of
Shakespearian tales as works of dance theatre, shadow puppetry and video animation. As well as
these sorts of performances, we’ve put on a number smaller projects and concerts throughout the
UK, and have just reached the end of a two-year residency at the Royal Academy of Music as
Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellows.