Welcome to the First Church of Cyberspace.

In August '97 we created a devised experimental musictheatre piece with a mixed cast and pit band from the local community, in Tamworth's plush Victorian Assembly Rooms.

A High-Tech Evangelical Neo-Catholic Church:

A strange breed of middlemen have throughout history created intangible worlds through which they may frighten and cajole the common people into submission. These middlemen have placed themselves and their subtle complex of distortions between the people and the experience of a true oneness with the universe - and charged entry! Perhaps the most well known of such middlemen were the Catholic priests of the high mediaeval era, through whom one's spiritual credit rating was always negotiable. In return for such pseudo allegiance, the Catholic order ruled callously and with bloody hands.

A Magical Reality

Perhaps a less well known example of the breed, however, is today's computer nerd, whose virtual world delights and dazzles those who can afford the subscription to its world wide church, whilst the vast trans-national machine of global capitalism divides and pollutes unhindered in the real world on this side of the screen. In a magical reality where the high mediaeval and the virtual are spliced together, Four Quarters seeks out a route toward a broader vision, thereby to expose the topical fallacy, that says... 'there is no alternative.'

'Dazzling Theatre'

Still pursuing academic concerns with the cultural impact of new technologies, alongside an exploration of the potential for cyber-spirituality, and set in a huge cyber-cathedral where the audience sat in pews, 'Cybermonks' was to pull together several strands of the company's work. In the words of our reviewer, Anthony Sherratt, we "offered an inquisitive audience a stark storyline and lots of cautionary predictions.....a noteworthy achievement and...dazzling theatre. The amazing fact is that the entire production was conceived and rehearsed in less than three weeks - a remarkable technical phenomenon of participation and performance."