BOOK LAUNCH: Knights of the Borrowed Dark

BOOK LAUNCH: Knights of the Borrowed Dark

When Penguin Random House approached us about creating a book launch with a difference, we were instantly intrigued and couldn’t wait to read the book to get inspired. It was a dark, young adult fantasy novel called Knights of the Borrowed Dark, following a secret...

Taking Telletubbies to the World

Taking Telletubbies to the World

When the Teletubbies made their comeback on a major global streaming platform, the team behind the brand wanted to make a big international splash. For the relaunch, we were asked to bring Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po to life at World Expo in Milan – taking four...

Undercover Actors!

Undercover Actors!

This is not some blog about how we do team building characters on fun spy missions. Nope. More interesting than that – and more real. Every now and again we've been asked to do a job that is a little out of the ordinary. As opposed to a big showy performance, like...

‘Doing’ Shakespeare

‘Doing’ Shakespeare

Rosalind Parker plays an outraged Katharina in an excerpt from The taming of the Shrew at Somerset House last year for a private audience. Photo credit Christine Heymann. We LOVE doing Shakespeare!  When we say ‘doing’ Shakespeare it makes it sound flippant and glib....

Actors in Immersive Training

Actors in Immersive Training

More and more people are seeing the benefits of using actors to enhance and improve their training objectives these days. It makes sense: it's an arena where people can try out new techniques and learn from mistakes in a way that they will remember and gives...