Find Your Community,
Find Yourself
Discover the Magic that Occurs Outside Your Comfort Zone
TheatreQuests are a collaborative programme of theatre, nature exploration, and art & wellbeing workshops that culminate in final performances. It can be described as a vision quest through the wilderness of creativity. This extraordinary voyage is informed by our three core values: Self-Discovery, Connection with Nature, and Creativity.
Our Adult TheatreQuests include our 10-day Summer Camp for older people ages 19-85, as well as 3-month weekly courses that usually take place in Spring and Autumn.
Theatre Quest is a journey of self-enquiry and re-empowerment that helps create the conditions for inner and outer transformation. Find hidden resources within yourself and explore new perspectives.
In the form of community theatre, the TheatreQuest is a great tool of collective enquiry for any community or ecovillage that would like to discover or deepen their sense of identity. Get in touch to enquire about us bringing this programme to your doorstep.
Upcoming TheatreQuest Events
Benefits for Professionals and Seekers
Our somatic movement, and breathing exercises will give you tools going forward to remain embodied, present and focused in your everyday life. It becomes increasingly vital for all of us to learn these skills.
Sucked into the wormholes of internet over-usage, information over-stimulation and society-wide sedentary lifestyles with office-centred employment, many of us are disconnected, discombobulated and disembodied.
And our practices, workshops and activities around acting, storytelling, and theatre will give you creative tools that you can tap into in other unexpected realms of life.
Recent Theatre Quest Shows
Confessions – March 2024
A thrilling loudspeaker announcement at the start: “you are locked in and cannot leave until you have confessed”. The voice doesn’t say what has to be confessed, and why, but it is clear that nobody can go until 12 members of the audience have made a full confession.
We have all done things that we are not proud of, and most people have hidden secrets. Anything can happen at a show like this as the confessions that come out are not pre-scripted.
TheatreQuesters of this show are currently fundraising to perform it in Italy after an invitation was made.
A Midsummer Day’s Dream – June 2024
A reimagined version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This Shakespeare classic will be delivered with modern environmentally-aware twists and a revised title: A Midsummer Day’s Dream.
Athens, the setting of the play, has been covered in plastic. What’s more, the faeries from the forest have been corrupted by human culture, developing smartphone addictions.
The cast will be made up of local children (aged 10+) and adults from two different TheatreQuest programmes. It’ll be performed outdoors in an enchanted forest.
Are You Happy?
A snail calls a special meeting to discuss an important matter: humanity has lost their trail. A pigeon, a spider, a dandelion and Water respond to the invitation. They adventure the human heart as guides to a group of humans. Will they find what has been lost?
This show was performed to around 150 people over the course of two nights. It was a promenade theatre show that took place across many rooms of the magnificent Cluny Hill Hotel.
What to Expect
Each course features a unique range of activities, and every year there is variation. We always have new artists, musicians, dancers, and personal development teachers offering workshops that we incorporate into our final shows.
Meet Your Mentor
Laura Pasetti
Artistic Director
Laura Pasetti is the course instructor. She is a theatre director, playwright and facilitator of learning, with 35 years of experience working with theatre professionals and non-professionals alike. Laura considers herself “an artist on a quest”. She has never stopped searching and training to enrich her knowledge and understanding of humanity. Since 2016 she has been combining theatre and ecology. In 2018 she completed a one-year training in nature-based practices at Ecodharma (Catalunya). In 2023 she founded Theatre of the 7 Directions and obtained a Master’s Degree in Engaged Ecology (Schumacher College). She lives in Scotland, in the Findhorn Ecovillage.
She has been teaching children and teenagers for much of her career, passionate about providing the next generation with invaluable tools for happy, healthy, creative lives. This includes a decade of providing annual Summer Camps for young people in Scotland and Italy.
Theatre Quests Abroad
Contact us to enquire about having our TheatreQuest programmes delivered to your local community, ecovillage, school or organisation.
We can deliver hybrid programmes, part online and part-in person, or fully in-person in most countries. We can also deliver online only eco activities (workshops) or conferences on specific topics.
We wish to animate the world with more inspiring animateurs, artists who will lead society into a more ecologically healthy vision of life.
Our TheatreQuests, immersive group experiences with final performances, are a way for your group to process, express and bond.