Horse Head Theatre Co.'s mission is to re-energize Houston audiences and artists with theatrically designed experiences using local talent and non-traditional methods.
Imagine
. . . going to the theatre and encountering an audience
with as much passion, aliveness, and emotion as you
find at a major sporting event. The Horse Head Theatre
Company believes this is the type of crowd that should
be inherent in the theatre. We are a company dedicated
to a new approach in creating the art of theatre,
and in doing so, forming a type of theatre that currently
does not exist. In conceiving this attitude, we are
not interested in evaluating or comparing our theatrical
practices to those of any theatre past or present.
Our approach to generating this form of theatre is
to look at the production as an organic whole, and
to continually evolve a new way of looking at theatre
by learning, not how things are being done, but how
they might be done.
Imagine . . . a theatrical experience beyond the artistic
realm of entertainment . . . where the reenergizing
capacity of the ancient Greek theatre at Epidaurus
is brought back to life in a new theatre relevant
to contemporary culture. The Horse Head Theatre Company
productions will offer an artistic experience that
facilitates this recharging in all participants (audience,
actors, designers, etc.).
Imagine . . . a group of artists doing regional premiers
and incorporating local talent to produce it . . .
exclusively. We will not be producing any piece of
theatre that has ever been done in our region. Our
company firmly believes that the artistic pool we
have to pull from in Houston is more than ample, and
that talent is not dictated by a zip code.
