What is Tiltyard?

 

We make theater.

We are a flexible, shape-shifting project with roots all up and down the eastern seaboard.

Part circus, part braintrust, part dress-up game, part laboratory. We run AT sharp things. We seek the off-kilter, the fantastical, the otherworldly, odd, and transcendent.

We like messing around with big, bottomless texts. We like making new things with weird old parts. We are scrappy. We are a playground. We believe in aggressive interpretation, radical respect for our audiences, and care above all.

MIDSUMMER went to Edinburgh…

Tiltyard

noun. historical. / ˈtilt ˌyärd/

: an enclosed courtyard for tilting contests.
: a space where jousts took place.

// “I'll be sworn 'a ne'er saw him but once in the Tiltyard; and then he burst his head for crowding among the marshal's men.” — Falstaff, Henry IV Part II, III.ii.2172