in situ: A Story

Reflective Ethnography, 2025

Commissioned by the directors of In Situ: theatre company, Cambridge, I was asked to create a response to their archive material in the form of a book. Since the company’s inception in 2000, they have worked to create multi-focal, environmental, experimental theatre and wanted the outcome to reflect that essence.

The book, simply named in situ: A Story, explores their story celebrating People, Place, Words, Voice, Bodies and Ghosts - the aspects of their practice that carve their vision into the world. I combined my own commissioned photography with photographic records they had collected.

As creatives, they experiment with the Classics, Shakespeare, mythology and Richard Spaul’s modern translations, weaving together unique theatrical experience for both the performers, and the audience.

Pushing the boundary of what theatre is, In Situ: are pioneers of the avant garde, the new and the unseen within both workshops, and performance space.