Riversmeet focuses on high quality writing, performance and teaching which engages with contemporary issues by linking the past to the present.
In every era the attempt must be made anew to wrest tradition away from a conformism that is about to overwhelm it.
-Walter Benjamin 1940
Productions
Several of our productions take on a contemporary issue. By exploring a parallel moment in history we hope to understand both the present and its roots in the past.
All of our work confronts issues of urgent concern, from political surveillance and dissent to versions of democracy.
Courses
The ‘slow learning’ approach to cultural products emphasises the place of process in education and gives each work and each reader the opportunity to become thoroughly acquainted without the pressure of acquiring a qualification.
Publications
We are committed to publishing the best writing. That means that we are more interested in work we want to see in the public domain rather than work that may be commercially successful. We are always interested to hear from writers with projects that accord with our general ideas.
What's new?
New Publication Savannah and her Thirteen Moons
New Blog Post We Need to Talk about Shoes
While the fashion and clothing industry is in the spotlight for its exploitation of people and planet, this awareness about what we wear seems to stop at our ankles. Read more...
New Riversmeet Short Lynton
It’s 1812, following the publication of his Address to the Irish People and subsequent clash with the English authorities in Dublinto, political activist Percy Shelley is in self imposed exile in North Devon. Home Secretary Lord Sidmouth has no intention of letting things lie and has sent his spies in pursuit. Watch here...
Coming soon...
Productions
Our response to the impact of Covid-19 on our live theatre productions has been to create the Riversmeet Monologues and Riversmeet Shorts. Coming soon Hatchet Job.
Courses
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway.
Our second adventure in Slow Learning. A deep dive into another of the great novels of the 20th Century. With a little help you will be able to both appreciate and enjoy it!
Publications
Our second book. Savannah and her Thirteen Moons has been beautifully crafted by London based Irish poet and children’s novelist Shaun Traynor.