Workshops

Matthew is a founder member of the group Chalemie that specialises in eighteenth-century music, dance and commedia.  They have performed in numerous historic locations in Britain and abroad.  Chalemie is motivated by a belief in total theatre; the combining of different performance arts to create new dramatic forms. Its own particular focus is on early music, dance and commedia dell’arte. With these as its primary materials it seeks to create a style of theatre that is close to the popular stage of the early eighteenth-century. Matthew’s part in the proceedings is to combine playing instruments (theorbo, hurdy-gurdy, guitar, etc.) with acting roles – he is frequently the villain.  He appears each year as part of Chalemie’s Commedia Festival at the Sands Theatre, Rotherhithe.