About us
Corn Exchange is our main house and cinema, situated in the historic market place in the centre of Newbury. New Greenham Arts, our 120-seat studio space, also housing a gallery and artist studios, is an 8-minute drive away in New Greenham Park, Greenham Common.
We want the Corn Exchange to be a real place of adventure and experience, a flagship venue for West Berkshire. Somewhere where you can come and experience an exciting range of live events and film all year round; where you can be challenged or surprised one week or laugh and be entertained the next. Somewhere welcoming and open, where you can take part as much as watch: a vital part of the life of local community and of the South East region.
Recent theatre programmes have included Filter with their RSC commissioned Twelfth Night, Unlimited (The Moon The Moon), UK premiere of Improbable (Panic), New International Encounters (The End of Everything Ever) as well as German mask masters Familie Floez (Hotel Paradiso). We also present up to 10 dance companies every year, with recent programmes including Scottish Dance Theatre, Hofesh Schecter (In Your Rooms & Uprising), Yasmin Vardimon (Yesterday) and 2 Faced Dance (Still Breathing).
Through our Evolve programme we also support/co-commission a range of artists and companies. Recent commissions have included Amanda Lawrence (Jiggery Pokery), Vincent Dance Theatre (If We Go On) and New Art Club’s Extraordinary World. Recent collaborators include Sharpwire (Johnny’s Midnight Goggles), Scott Davison Productions (Future Me) and So & So Circus (The Hot Dots).
As a multi-art form venue our programming policy embraces a wide range of work, with the development of theatre and dance key to our artistic programme. We believe passionately in being a vital part of our local community and that in an increasingly virtual world there is nothing that can beat real live experiences shared with hundreds of other audience members around you.
Our priorities are:
- To actively seek out and bring to West Berkshire and the region a high quality, distinctive programme, including work which might not normally have come our way.
- To present and produce, where possible, work that challenges, moves and asks questions – work which encourages us to look beyond the everyday and think differently about ourselves and the world around us.
- To explore cross art form work, especially that which integrates text, movement, music and new technologies in innovative ways, as well as performance with a strong narrative or physical language.
- To develop new writing and outdoor performance as strands of our theatre programme.
- To enrich our programme through support, commissioning or co-commissioning, especially with companies or artists making work in the south east region.
- To develop our role as a producer – continuing to build the position of Corn Exchange as a safe base for the creation of new work.
- To present local companies and community arts as a core part of our programme.
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