Creating and supporting great performances, arts venues and literature
DRH Arts comprises three business units within a fully integrated arts company. Its production work is delivered through The Company, an evolving ensemble of writers, actors and directors who together bring challenging new work to stage and screen. The latest project is A Soldier with no Name, planned for production in 2025. It explores the lives of lesbian artists Claude Cahun (pictured) and Marcel Moore who lived on Jersey during Nazi occupation during World War 2.
Arts consultancy focuses on delivery of capital projects, whether these are new buildings/venues or refurbishment of the existing cultural stock.
The company is currently working with – Project Space Leeds, supporting its relocation of the highly regarded Tetley Gallery; Aspect Music as it seeks to deliver the ambitious redevelopment of the 20th Century Theatre in Notting Hill into a prime chamber music venue; and Sutton Academy Community Theatre in Nottinghamshire. DRH Arts has an ongoing working relationship with Norden Farm Centre for the Arts in Maidenhead and PRIMARY in Nottingham, and was heavily involved in the initial development of both buildings.
Publishing work has recently included ArtReach – 25 Years of Cultural Development, House Clearance, and publication of the script for the 2023/24 production of Draining the Swamp.
Background to DRH Arts
An integrated company dedicated to exciting new art
DRH Arts was established by David Hill in 2019, as a new vehicle for specialist arts consultancy following his decision to leave ArtReach, which he founded in 1996. The new company was formed to focus on support for capital cultural projects, but also to provide a platform for production and publishing work.
Draining the Swamp was a new play created for touring work in 2023., and produced by The Company. Following a run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Norden Farm Centre for the Arts in Maidenhead in 2023, a regional tour was successfully delivered in spring 2024. Subsequently, the play will be developed for middle-scale touring.
Cast and Creative Team (2024):
Sir Oswald Mosley – Rowland D. Hill
Lady Diana Mosley – Ciara Pouncett
Cimmie and Baba – Claudia Whitby-Tillott
Curzon, Joyce and Frost – David Boyle
Jeffrey, Syers and Tarrant – Chris Keyna
Directed by David Furlong
Lighting and Technical Design – Matthew Biss
Stage Manager – Robert Bullen
Production photographs – Paddy Gormley
In 2024 The Company is preparing a production of a new play, The Soldier with no Name, telling the story of lesbian artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, who resisted the Nazis during the occupation of Jersey in World war 2.
DRH Arts also works with partners, including Dixon and Galt and Streetlight Graphics, to identify, publish and promote new literature.