Re:Voice is a participatory theatre performance created as a part of the international academic research Re-voicing cultural landscapes: narratives, perspectives, and performances of marginalised intangible cultural heritage (Re:voice).
The piece aims to provide new perspectives on a key research question of the project: How can a better understanding of the interplay between majority and minority in relation to intangible cultural heritage enable us to make European indigenous cultures more visible and resilient?
The larger Re:voice project focuses on marginalised cultures across several countries, but the performance being a part of the project’s research in Cornwall focuses on the project’s data from Penwith.
The work draws on the research interviews from Cornwall and was co-written and co co-created with a community choir from Penzance, Tuesday Night Fun Club.
Collected stories and conversations addressing issues of belonging, identity, heritage and the interplay between majority and minority build a narrative delivered through performance, movement, sound and video. The performance was devised, created and rehearsed through a series of workshops involving invited artists, designed to exchange experiences through conversations, play, singing and actions.
As the landscape plays a huge part in constructing our identities, the work centred around the main space of the gallery but also takes the audience for a processional walk connecting various gallery rooms and the space outside – allowing the audience to experience the performance not only intellectually and emotionally, but also physically through the journey across the space.
The show is designed to perform seasonally in various spaces, from a gallery to an orchard, from a stage to an outside space.
The show premiered on April 29th, 2023 at Tate St Ives.
Storyhouse, Chester
★★★★ Theatre Reviews North ★★★★ Chester Chronicle
Director; Hannah Noone
Design; Jacob Hughs
Composer; Samuel Barnes
Lighting; Ceri James
Images; Mark McNulty
Wildworks, Carlyon Bay
Associate director & choreography
A large scale promenade outdoor production with a professional cast and community chorus. Also made into a feature film (trailer below) '“spine-tingling” - The Guardian
Written by; Hannah McPake & Mydd Pharo
Director; Mydd Pharo
Composer; Banjo Bower
Sound design; Daniel Balfour
Design; Amy Pitt & Ellie Williams
Lighting & Video designer; Josh Pharo
Stage Manager; Kylie Sullivan
Movement director; Rob Manner
Costume; Meier Williams & Sara Rose Whetherly
Movement director
“They are ably supported by the commanding choreography of Laban trained Jennifer Fletcher” - LGBT Poet Laureate
“…while movement (Jennifer Fletcher) fans a roaring flame of intensity between performers.” - Three Weeks
“With powerful movement direction by Jennifer Fletcher, the moments of physical connection between the two are electric.” - The Queer Review
🏆 Summerhall Lustrum Award 2022 WINNER
🏆 SoHo Playhouse Medal of Excellence 2022 WINNER
🏆 Holden Street Theatre Award 2022 FINALIST
🏆 OffFest Edinburgh Award 2022 NOMINEE
🏆 The Stage Edinburgh Award 2022 WINNER - JESSICA CLARK
★★★★★ Three Weeks 'ferocious veracity'
★★★★★ Theatre Reviews
★★★★★ Broadway Baby 'Marcus’ 70 minute debut play flew by.'
★★★★★ The Queer Review 'Funny, dark and impactful...full of surprising twists.'
★★★★★ The Spy In The Stalls 'luminous'
★★★★★ Liam O'Dell 'absolutely astonishing'
★★★★ The Guardian ‘A glorious tapestry of a play.’
★★★★ Lyn Gardner, The Stage‘Marcus’ play takes an ancient story and makes it box fresh.’
★★★★ The Scotsman ‘It’s exceptionally rare to encounter something that blends genres so skilfully – and enjoyably – as
this.’
★★★★ The FT 'a thriller in miniature'
★★★★ Broadway World ‘An extraordinary, mythical, intricate piece of new theatre.’
★★★★ British Theatre 'A confident, funny, disturbing and unsettling play well worth your Fringe time.'
★★★★ Theatre Weekly 'a thrilling rollercoaster'
★★★★ WhatsOnStage 'A top-notch hour'
★★★★ Stagewire 'a powerful piece of storytelling'
★★★★ Voice Mag 'a dark and modern reimagining'
2023 Soho Theatre, London & UK National Tour
2022 Paines Plough Roundabout at Summerhall, Edinburgh
2020 Vault Festival, London
A co-production with Ellie Keel Productions and MAST Mayflower Studios, in association with 45North
A contemporary thriller with ancient roots.
Whena woman tells a lie to her girlfriend, a seed is planted that starts to grow in the darkness. Now roots are cracking up through the pavement and branches are coming in at the windows, and – as she starts to see things that no one else can - she becomes the focus of some seriously unwanted attention.
Atticist and Ellie Keel Productions collaborate again with a new play based on an old myth, about passion, power, and photosynthesis.
After a critically-acclaimed sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe 2022, Rafaella Marcus's multi-award-winning debut play returned for an extensive UK Tour and London run in 2023.
Written by Rafaella Marcus
Roundabout Cast Jessica Clark, Rebecca Banatvala
Vaults Cast Jessica Clark, Louisa Hollway
Development Cast Amanda Wilkin, Emma D'Arcy, Jessica Clark
Director Jessica Lazar
Movement Director Jennifer Fletcher
Associate Director Charlotte Vickers
Set & Costume Designer Rūta Irbīte
Lighting Designer David Doyle
Composer & Sound Designer Tom Foskett Barnes
Stage Manager (Edinburgh) Jordan Littlewood
Stage Manager (Tour) Max Juan-Balch
Production Manager (Edinburgh) Lucy Mewis-McKerrow
Production Manager (Vaults) Jennifer Lunn
Producers David Doyle, Tom Ford, Ellie Keel for Ellie Keel Productions
PR & Marketing Chloe Nelkin Consulting
Image David Montieth-Hodge
Movement director
“Jesse Jones’s directions keeps a relentless pace with beautifully fluid movement (Jennifer Fletcher) breaking the tension…” - British Theatre Guide
★★★★ The Times
★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ The Stage
A Paines Plough & Theatre Royal Plymouth production touring to TRP, Northern Stage & Bristol Old vic
A play bySamuel Bailey, whose debut play Shook won him the 2019 Papatango Prize and Times Breakthrough Award in 2021, Sorry, You’re Not A Winner is a play about aspiration, social mobility and getting caught between class. It asks; if ‘making it’ means leaving everything you know and everyone you love behind – what’s the point?
Writer; Samuel Bailey
Director; Jesse Jones
Sound design; Asaf Zohar
Dramaturg; Sarah Dickenson
Designer; Lucy Sierra
Lighting; Rajiv Pattani
Assistant director; Adam Karim
Movement director
A New Earth, Arcola and North Wall Production at The Arcola.
★★★★ The Telegraph
★★★★ The Evening Standard
★★★★ Theatre Weekly
★★★★ London Theatre Reviews
Seoul, 1991. Priyanka is beginning the UN investigation into the ‘comfort women’ of the Second World War. Yuna is about to learn the family secret her father has shamefully concealed for her whole life. And Sun-Hee, having kept her silence for over forty years, speaks out – an act which will ignite a fire that could spread across the world.
Three women’s lives intertwine as they campaign for the truth against those who would rather it remain forgotten.
Based on true accounts by survivors, The Apology is a play about what it takes to forgive.
The Apology was developed with support from the National Theatre.
Written By: Kyo Choi
Directed By: Ria Parry
Set design by: TK Hay
