Our Past..

Wet Picnic have performed with theatres and festivals all over the world since forming in 2006.  Initial pieces of walkabout street theatre grew to full-scale shows Rodney Dillyweed’s Undesirable Demise and The Dinner Table and, through steadily increasing their collaborations, funding and fan base, the company have established their current repertoire of four touring shows with two more in development, and have successfully delivered three site specific projects as well as countless walkabout performances.

The company has always had a strong commitment to learning and education, and from its very beginning has run youth theatres and workshops with schools on curriculum subjects, as well as some more individual projects, like running a week of drama for an entire school.

Wet Picnic has been supported throughout its existence by The University of Winchester, Hampshire County Council and Winchester City Council.

Performance history includes:
 - Dinner Table at the Olympics Festival in London boroughs (2012)
 - Norfolk and Norwich Festival (2012)
 - Culture Commune (2012)
 - Mayor of London event, Trafalgar Square, London (2009)
 - Fish and Chips Festival, Rouen, France (2012)
 - £70,000 commission by ACE and GWQ Shopping Centre to create a site specific piece about the history of Gunwharf Quays (2011/12)
 - British Council commission to animate the British pavilion in the Shanghai World Expo over 2 months (2010)

UK work includes:
 - Eat Global Festival
 - FAR du Pays de Morlaix 2010
 - FUSE Medway Festival
 - Winchester Hat Fair
 - Larmer Tree Festival
 - Arts Fresco, Market Harborough
 - Birmingham Climate Change Festival
 - Bristol Childrens’ Festival
 - Salisbury International Festival
 - Time For Tea for Newbury Corn Exchange (2011)
 - Mouth of the Tyne
 - Stockton
 - Glastonbury, Latitude
 - Brighton Festival
 - Henley Festival
 - Extracts
 - Feast
 - Outdoor work by Birmingham Hippodrome

Other international work includes:
 - ATP Tennis Masters Final 2010, Shanghai
 - Picnic on the Bridge, Brest, France
 - La Ville Charrues Festival, France
 - Fira Tàrrega Festival, Spain
 - Pays de Morlaix Festival, France
 - Bristol Do Festival
 - Abbeville Festival France
 - Amiens Festival, France Fete dans la Ville
 - D’Arkhangelsk Festival Russia
 - Metalovoice