Fragments of Brilliance
A producing partnership for work of exceptional merit that cannot secure funding or infrastructure through any other route.
The programmeOur Story
The most important work being made in the world right now is being made in places the producing industry has not yet turned to look.
GMF turns to look. Then we build the stage.
The obstacle is not merit.
It is infrastructure.
GMF provides the infrastructure.
Why we exist
GMF exists because the producing industry’s field of vision is too narrow. Work of extraordinary merit is being made outside the major capitals, outside the established networks, outside the funding structures that determine what reaches the stage. GMF is the institution that finds it, funds it, and produces it at the level it deserves.
Working internationally, across five continents.
What we provideFive fixed capacities
Judgment
Discovery, selection, dramaturgy and development. We decide what deserves the whole apparatus.
Producing
Finance, rights, contracting and casting. The conditions a work needs, assembled around it.
Making
Direction, design, rehearsal and technical realisation. The work made at its full intended scale.
Reach
Venues, touring, transfers and partnerships. The distance a work is carried without being diluted.
Memory
Publishing, documentation, archive and canon. What remains once the room goes dark.
We do not produce theatre to show the world what it looks like. The world has enough mirrors.
Two routes
Aesthetic of Awe
Our Main Stage season. Four works held within one curatorial proposition — what GMF makes when it has full control of the production.
The seasonGMF provides the machine. The artist provides the work.