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Below you can find some kind words about Coney and its work, some awards that our work has received together with conferences etc where we’ve spoken, and friends, collaborators, and commissioners who are very much on our radar.

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Coney is pleased to have received a kind word from many lovely people. Here are some we’re particularly proud of.

“Companies such as Coney have long understood how social media can help the theatre experience begin before the show does, and continue after it has finished.”
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian.

“… a vitally important step in the development of participatory dramaturgy. Through an elegant synthesis of mise-en-scene, game rules, performance and action, I was led on a journey that was both purely of my own making and deeply, thoughtfully authored. A ground-breaking piece of game-theatre.”
Alex Fleetwood, Director of Hide & Seek, on A Small Town Anywhere.

“I had a fundamentally different experience; one with involvement, excitement and profound drive. Very clever, very creative and very in tune with the fundamentals of the human need to find, explore and inhabit story”
Emma Rice, Artistic Director, Kneehigh Theatre on A Small Town Anywhere.

“The best piece of theatre I’ve experienced in 5 years”
David Jubb, Co-Artistic Director of BAC, on Rabbit: Valentine.

“Coney embody inspiration, both for me as a maker and an audience member. We should all be grateful Coney exist”
Duncan Speakman, director of circumstance, collaborator and player of many a thing.

“Coney are by far the best people to have on your team if you need to truly understand young people, academic thinking around learning and transitions, and the best ways to reach young people who might be disengaged. They are not only fantastically clever and creative in their ideas, but they are the best translators of academic thinking into practice I have met. Invaluable to any project with young people.”
Dr Jo Twist, Commissioning Editor, Channel 4 Education, on the projects we’ve researched

“transformative, quietly subversive, formally inventive, and lovely.”
Deborah Pearson, co-director of Forest Fringe, on The Loveliness Principle.

“I tend to talk a bit too grandly when I talk about the Goldbug hunt. I can’t help it, it inspires me to talk big, to talk emotionally. I want people to know how much I enjoyed taking part, and how much I appreciated it. To me, it was something new, a new medium by which to experience things. Imagine what it would be like if you had never seen a film in your whole life, only to one day have somebody usher you into a darkened auditorium and sit with you whilst you watched for the first time. The Goldbug hunt was my film, the Masque was the darkened auditorium, the people I met along the way sat with me.”
Anonymous player of The Gold-Bug.

“The Cat Escapes project which I worked on with Coney was probably the most exciting and motivating project that I have done in my long 22 years of teaching!”
Claire Lound, primary school teacher and collaborator on A Cat Escapes.

“An enticing piece of social engineering”
The Herald on The Feast.

“An important pointer to how theatre is developing,”
Will Gompertz, BBC Arts Editor.

“the best resource bar none on resilience”
The Young Foundation, funders of all things about resilience, on SuperMe.

“Understatedly audacious… an interrogation of ideology and its poisonous effect on community… the fraught final stages feel as complex and electrifying as any actor-based drama. The moral decisions we are asked to take might seem simplistic to a fly on the wall, but the luxury of such detachment is long gone.”
Andrzej Lukowski, reviewing A Small Town Anywhere for Time Out.

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