PAST PROJECTS
COLLECTIVEBREAK: EXPERIMENTS
IN
REST
Four women sit embroidering on an endless piece of fabric, trying to work out how to rest.
Combining personal testimony, performance and lots and lots of lost needles, Experiments in Rest attempts to break through the noise of our hyper-stimulated hustle culture.
Four performers slowly reveal their innermost thoughts and the threads that bind them, whilst trying to maintain focus on a simple, yet pain-staking task.
An evolving work charting questions of wellbeing, community and the urgency of slowing down, the fabric serves as a living performance document. Everyday, our still, quiet, unproductive work slips, invisible, into its folds.
A protest against productivity and in defence of care and female solidarity, this performance asks: what does it mean to stop? To take time out? To sit still? And why now, more than ever, do we need to talk about rest?
At Camden People's Theatre, March 2023.
At Goldsmiths, July 2022.
I COULDN'T EXPRESS MYSELF IN WORDS SO I TRIED WRITING YOU A LETTER.
2022
A site specific work at the closed Brooke Road Sorting Office in Clapham. Made in collaboration with Lizet Chavez-Prado and Callum Hughes.
'There are ghosts in this building. Not the normal time, the type with faces, these ghosts are made of words. Ink is slippery, and it leaves a mark.'
RECALL
Exploring the experience of remembering, of trying to remember, of trying to forget.
A collaboration with artist and performer Lizet Chavez Prado, dramaturg and writer Jacob Casel, and musicians Ankar Arken, Mua Kim, Gwenno Morgan and Ellie Griffiths.
ANYTHING YOU CAN DO I CAN DO BLEEDING (HOME)
This work, performed April 2021 on Goldsmith's Campus is an exploration of ritual. This particular ritual takes place on the first day of menstruation. It celebrates this day as the coming together of the menstruating body with the natural world and imagines it as the moment of the cycle when we are most embodied, most connected to the physical world.
On Friday 5th February, on the first day of my period, I swum for three minutes in the North Sea. I walked along the beach for a few hours, collecting pebbles and oyster shells. Then I walked into the sea, dived underwater, then came home. The external temperature was 8 degrees, the water temperature was 7 degrees.
I thought my body was weak, but it was not. I used this day to connect with the world, and I did something brave to refresh my sense of strength.
THE LANDSCAPE JUKEBOX
Created in collaboration with Lydia Tissier.
Part-radio play, part-film and online platform, The Landscape Jukebox is a theatrical project that investigates the different ways in which people think, showing how we have both unique and universal experiences of our own consciousness.
It was presented at the New Mills Festival 2020 and at the Buxton Fringe Festival 2020, where it won a 'Pick of the Fringe' award.
The Jukebox has 18 tracks which were released over a period of six days, and audiences were able to choose the order in which they listen to them. Each track is a short piece of dialogue or a monologue, set to a film created to celebrate the landscapes and scenes of natural beauty within the Peak District.
The script is based on a series of interviews in which participants talked about the way they perceive their own consciousness, about how the voices in their head sound and about what they think about, when they’re alone, when they’re driving and when they are waiting for the bus and their phone is dead.
EVERY BRILLIANT THING
A staging of the Duncan Macmillan playscript, performed at the Stage@Leeds Theatre in 2019. A one-man show about mental health and masculinity, we emphasised seeing the wonderful in the everyday.
The staging featured a 20 meter winding corridor to enter the theatre. It was lit with domestic lights and filled with rugs and arm chairs. From the ceiling hung 500 cards, each with 'Brilliant Things' written on them. These were gathered both from the show and from an online project where hundreds of people submitted their own brilliant things.
A review can be found here: https://www.thegryphon.co.uk/2019/03/01/every-brilliant-thing-was-brilliant/
A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS
2018
This was a four-part project based on the short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I collaborated with composer and filmmaker Ben Nimmo, who wrote the first two chapters whilst I wrote the latter two. Chapter One was a sound booth, where audiences listened to a soundscape through headphones. Chapter Two was a mockumentary film. Chapter Three was a situationist-style exhibition and Chapter Four was a live theatrical performance, taking place at the Stage@Leeds theatre.
MACBETH
2017
