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The directors Steven Wasson, American , and Corinne Soum, French, met in Paris in the early 80’s . Reid Gilbert at The Valley Studio on Upper Wyoming Road.

www.angefou.co.uk

Nestled in the Wyoming Valley, just south of Spring Green, sits a 1902 Methodist church now the new summer residency of the London based Theatre de l’Ange Fou and International School of Corporeal Mime. Steven began his mime and physical theatre studies in 1976 with Dr. E. This led him to Paris where he met Corinne, both were students, and later on the last assistants of the “fa

ther of modern mime” Etienne Decroux. In 1984, Steven Wasson and Corinne Soum created their own mime and physical theatre company in Paris, the Theatre de l’Ange Fou, and a school offering a professional training in Corporeal Mime. In 1995, they relocated the company and school to London. Today, the school welcomes students from around the world. The Theatre de l’Ange Fou has toured throughout Europe, Russia The united States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, India Japan and the middle east. The Theatre de l’Ange fou has created many original plays and adaptations, ranging from duets to large ensemble work: The Little Dictator - parts I & II, Beyond The Garden, Crusade, Entangled Lives, The Government Inspector, The Orpheus Complex and Across the Seven Seas. They also specialise in the repertoire of Etienne Decroux with their play The Man Who Preferred to Stand. The work of Theatre de l’Ange Fou has been described by the London Sunday Times as, “A beautifully staged, atmospheric piece of total theatre.” And by the Scotsman: “If Beckett had ever produced a ballet, it would have looked something like this.”

Having always dreamed of establishing a home for the school and the company in the U.S., Steven and Corinne purchased the Wyoming Valley Church and started a refurbishment of the property, preserving the integrity of this local landmark, while giving it a new life dedicated to the multi-faceted world of physical theatre. In July 2012, The White Church THEATRE Project will also offer, alongside performances, workshops, lectures and films.

03/11/2024

03/01/2024

Happy Leap Year to All.

02/28/2024

BLUE RAINCOAT THEATRE ACADEMY ‘24⁠
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CORPOREAL MIME WORKSHOP⁠
Mon 4th - Fri 8th March⁠
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Tutor: Corinne Soum, Co-Director of Theatre de l’Ange Fou⁠
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Venue: The Factory Performance Space, Sligo, Ireland⁠
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This workshop involves training in the discipline of Corporeal Mime. Corinne Soum combines her experience as former assistant to Etienne Decroux and having performed, taught, developed and directed Corporeal Mime for more than 30 years.⁠
The training will include gestural grammar, body articulation, counterweights, walks and displacement in space, figures of style, mobile statuary, and musicality of movement.⁠
Extracts of the repertoire of Etienne Decroux will be taught during the workshop to fully experience this unique modern mythology of movement theatre. Participants will also explore the infinite possibilities of drawing from this repertoire to create personal work.⁠
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Image: from THE ORPHEUS COMPLEX, Theatre de l'Ange Fou, created and directed by Steven Wasson & Corinne Soum (Photo: S. Wasson)⁠
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For booking details please see https://www.blueraincoat.com/theatre-academy-2024

02/20/2024

12/31/2023

Here's to a 2024 unfolding miracles for all! Love to those friends close and far, known and those so very familiar unknown.

05/01/2022

To once again celebrate the Workers of the World on this May Day, for us the date of the opening of our school, the Ecole de Mime Corporel Dramatique de Paris, in 1984, and the beginning of our company, the Theatre de l'Ange Fou in 1985, here is "A Photographic Landscape" showing our company work from 1984 to 2018. We moved the company and school to London in 1995 re-naming the school to The International School of Corporeal Mime. In 2014, the Theatre de l'Ange Fou moved to the US after buying an old church and transforming it into a theatre space, creating the White Church Theatre Project. Today we are teaching online to students from the US to Mexico to Holland to the UK and to Ireland. Since 2014, we have created many shows here at the White Church Theatre with our artist in residency program. The last one presented in front of a live audience was "The Perpetual Fall of Raincoatvia", with actors from Argentina, Chile, Japan and the US, in the fall of 2019 shortly before the pandemic. Presently, we are rehearsing a new show, "Symphonie pour un Ange", hoping to present it live in the fall. And we continue the work on the editing of our film THE PENELOPE COMPLEX. On this day honoring the Artists and Workers of the World, we would like to say thank you to all those who have participated in the continuing adventure of the Theatre de l'Ange Fou.
STEVEN WASSON & CORINNE SOUM.

"A Photographic Landscape" 1985-2018, a 15 minute photo review of the work of the THEATRE DE L'ANGE FOU, Compagnie STEVEN WASSON & CORINNE SOUM.

Address

6348 State Road 23
Spring Green, WI
53588

Website

http://www.angefou.co.uk/

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