Upcoming Events

WE ARE STILL HERE
/
​WE ARE ALWAYS HERE

We are commissioning two exciting young writers that are willing to make a short piece up for public consumption. 

The performance could be:

 a dyi theatre piece / 
a flasmob /
a series of movements done alone in your house /
an instruction /
an exercise /
a table top performance performed in cafe's to friends /
a few lines that might be chalked on pavements /
a conversation between seeming strangers performed on buses / 
something we haven't thought of yet /

 or, in other words, a call to folks to take theatre into their own hands for a moment and participate - anything that includes an audience and doesn't happen within a theatre. Away from cameras and wifi routers. This is inspired by our own Deliverance and the collection Remember Nature. 

The piece should be performable on no budget, with NO TECH, anywhere in the world and it doesn't have to take more than 5 minutes to do (but if the artists want to make a durational piece that lasts 15hrs, that's cool too). 

The theme 'We Are Still Here / We Are Always Here' is up for interpretation. That can be as political or introverted as the writers like. It can have a specified WE or it can be open. But the HERE feels important to us, to celebrate being in our own public spaces, our homes, our gardens, our own patch of earth. Not travelling, just being. 

These commissions have been offered to writers known to us rather than through public call out because we have no infrastructure to support reading, assessing and feeding back on submissions of interest right now. We hope to offer open call out opportunities in the future. 

The commissions are completely paid for by generous donations to our ko-fi fund - thank you for making work like this happen!

Our first writer was the amazing Stella Green. Stella's (INSTRUCTIONS FOR A) GHOST DISCO went live on the 6th of June and came down on the 6th of July on this site. It was performable anywhere for free but we'd love a ko-fi if you liked it and are able to spare one!

We are pleased to announce our second writer will be the incredible Ink Asher Hemp, whose work will go live on the 8th of July. Stay tuned!

Sandcastles

We're thrilled to announce we are recipients of the ART Award, meaning we will be bringing our production of Steve McMahon's Sandcastles supported by Assembly Festival this Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Sandcastles moves back and forth in time and memory to depict the tumultuous lifelong friendship of millennials Hannah and Beth. Beth is moving to New York. Hannah should be happy for her. When Beth goes missing Hannah can’t reconcile how she reacted with the fact that Beth might be gone. Sandcastles is an exploration of grief, millennial angst, friendship and growing up; a bold piece of storytelling that will stay with you for a long time.

The performance will run 4th-27th of August at 12:50 at Assembly Rooms - Front Room on George Street. Tickets on sale now from Assembly and the Fringe Society. ​

Deliverance
Deliverance, produced by Vanishing Point, funded by Creative Scotland, is a pandemic proof experience that has a proven track record nationally and internationally. We are now taking international bookings, please get in touch if you are interested. 
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Strike a pose
Look again
Who are you these days?

Get ready for a fun, reflective night in by yourself, performing your own solo theatre show, with your own personal soundtrack. In Deliverance, a person arrives at your door with an envelope. Inside is your script - a set of instructions that you will follow for the next 90 minutes. You’ll dress up, you’ll dance, you’ll pose in the mirror, you'll even receive a phone call from a stranger, but don’t worry, no one will be watching but you. 
Image credit Cat Thomson.