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Hydrocracker Theatre Company is a UK-based theatre company specialising in site-specific performance.

=Biography= The group was founded in 2003 by British writer Neil Fleming and theatre director Geoff Church. It is currently led by actor Jem Wall, Neil Fleming, and Richard Hahlo, along with producer Judith Hibberd.

Hydrocracker is an associate of Brighton Festival, and has produced work both in the UK and internationally, notably at the Brighton Festival, the Barbican 's festival and Shakespeare Weekender events, the Pulse Festival with the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich, Theatre 503, Canterbury Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Theatre Festival Horsens Denmark, Octoberfeast Lewes.

Hydrocracker's celebration of William Shakespeare, Shakespeare à la Carte, has been adapted for radio and broadcast by the BBC in 2009, 2010 and 2013.

Hydrocracker has also worked closely with the University of Brighton's Arts and Humanities program on Understanding Conflict: Forms and Legacies of Violence, has spoken at conference events at the University and contributted a paper on Political Theatre to a forthcoming publication.

The 2014 show Wild Justice won a Brighton Argus Angel award. The company's production The New World Order was chosen for The Guardian's 2007 "Pick of the Year".

=Approach= The company's approach to theatre has been described by Guardian theatre critic Michael Billington as "site specific theatre with a purpose." Hydrocracker experiments with theatre convention both by presenting work in extrarodinary venues, which have included Brighton Pier, and by combining performance with other modes of public interaction. For example, its 2014 production of Wild Justice, by Neil Fleming, combined revenge theatre with public debate on the nature of revenge. Its 2016 co-production with Blast Theory, Operation Black Antler, a devised piece about the ethics of undercover policing, uses a combination of theatre and immersive role-playing by the audience.

=Productions= 2016: Operation Black Antler. Devised work, in collaboration with Blast Theory. Brighton Festival.

2016: Shakespeare à la Carte. Devised work, by William Shakespeare, Jonathan Cullen and Richard Hahlo. Barbican Shakespeare Weekender, part of the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.

2014: Wild Justice. Author: Neil Fleming. Director: Jo McInnes. Unitarian Church, Brighton. Brighton Festival. With debate panellists Jo Berry, Marina Cantacuzino, Robin Shohet, and Dr Mark Devenney.

2011: The New World Order. Author: Harold Pinter. Director: Ellie Jones. Shoreditch Town Hall, Barbican Festival, and Brighton Town Hall, Brighton Festival.

2011: The Consultant. Author: Neil Fleming. Director: Geoff Church. Theatre 503, London

2009: The Erpingham Camp. Author: Joe Orton. Director: Ellie Jones. Brighton Pier, Brighton Festival.

2008: Shakespeare à la Carte. Devised work, by William Shakespeare, Jonathan Cullen and Richard Hahlo. Brighton Festival

2007: The New World Order. Author Harold Pinter. Director: Ellie Jones. Brighton Town Hall, Brighton Festival.

=References=

=External Links= Hydrocracker website

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