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COLLAPSIBLE is a funny and furious new work about navigating a world that cares so much about you keeping it together, it doesn't notice you falling apart. This coming-of-age comedy-drama explores identity, anxiety and what it means to be ‘real’. Coated in comedy and complete with Buzzfeed quizzes, COLLAPSIBLE is a contemporary nosedive into the phenomenon of disassociation. It’s a work for anyone who has ever tried to write a truthful cover letter.
"Daniel Herten has created an atmosphere of visual and aural dissonance that vividly illustrates what’s going on in Essie’s mind. It’s a paradox for the audience as the experience of watching and listening is profoundly sad, scary, and hilarious by turn." - Diana Simmonds, Stage Noise
Coming in off the back of their dazzling feat of endurance, The Second Woman, Nat Randall and Anna Breckon have returned with Set Piece—a work that explores female intimacy through the relationship between screen and stage.
Crafted from a quick-witted script that draws on real-life dinner party conversation, improvisation and ‘50s pulp fiction, Set Piece juxtaposes lesbian fantasy with the queer ordinary. Combining the language of film with the craft of theatre, Set Piece wields nuanced camera work to intensify the audience’s proximity to the drama unfolding onstage.
Across multiple screens and an elaborate set, Randall and Breckon upend the tropes of relationship drama to mine the rich depths of queer relationships and the emotional dynamics contained within.
*Nominated for
Green Room Awards 2023 Design & Technical Achievment
"noise is us realising that we’re submerged in a stream of digital media - and strangely enough, trying to drink our way out of it."
noise is an audio-visual installation in response to
digital saturation. It seems that the more we absorb,
the less we retain.
Through the medium of obsolete technology, the work
explores our relationships with media consumption
and online communication.
Can we find clarity and maintain our identity whilst
being surrounded by the indefinite everything?
*Created by Daniel Herten & Morgan Moroney
Funded by the 2020 NIDA TTSM Grant
