S H O W S
The Itinerant Music Hall / devised
Roll up! Roll up! And gather round the Itinerant Music Hall: a rag-tag troupe of three delightful miscreants, they reel into town and tell you their tales of woe. Varsickle Tilley, Glass Eye and Piccadilly Johnny, refugees from the beginning of the new century, are on a journey to find their way back home - on an old upright honky tonk piano, strapped onto a bicycle.
Director: Jessica Edwards
Designer: Amelia Jane Hankin
Varsickle Tilly: James Rowland
Glass Eye Charlie: Pete Ashmore
Piccadilly Johnnie: Kate Adams
Originally commissioned by the Lyric Hammersmith / Watford Palace Theatre / GDIF / Latitude Festival, touring in summer 2014
Jekyll & Hyde / Jonathan Holloway
A bold new adaptation re-imagining Dr Jekyll as a radical female scientist seeking to break the bonds of her gender. The first collaboration between Flipping the Bird and Red Shift.
Director: Jessica Edwards
Composer: Laurence Osborn
Producer: Francesca Moody
Designer: Joanna Scotcher
Light: Josh Carr
Movement: Fionn Cox Davies
Costume: Grace Nicholas
Jekyll/Hyde: Cristina Catalina
Utterson: Michael Edwards
Enfield: Leo Wan
St.John: Elliott Rennie
Worsfield: Joel Phillimore
Opened at the Assembly Roxy at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2013. Transferred to the Southwark Playhouse in September 2013.
The Box by Phoebe Eclair-Powell
Tell us a secret. What is your fantasy? Anything to confess? Anything to declare? A one-to-one interactive experience in an old-fashioned peep show booth, THE BOX explores identity, gender, regret, and fantasy. Emotional stripping, based on real life experiences, THE BOX is titillating, silly, dark and sexy. Do you dare?
Director: Jessica Edwards
Designer: Amelia Jane Hankin
The Madame: Alice Bounce
Man: Fionn Cox-Davies
Woman: Stephanie Day / Harriet Madeley
Commissioned by Theatre Delicatessen as part of SPACED2014
Opened at Marylebone Gardens in March 2014, then transfered to Latitude Festival in July 2014
Notes from Underground / Fyodor Dostoesky
Closeted in his fetid St Petersburg apartment, the Underground Man is writing. About himself. Struggling with desperation, self-loathing, and cripping arrogance. Unintentionally hilarious, dark, and unexpectedly profound, Notes from Underground is a grotesque amplification of everyone's social anxiety.
Director: Jessica Edwards
Adaptation: Max Gill
Movement: Fionn Cox Davies
Underground Man: Peter Clements
The Men: Oliver Gatten / Martin Mccreadie/ Damien Hasson / Sam Freeman
Liza: Paloma Oakenfold
First performed at the Etcetera Theatre in 2011.
Chicken Skin / devised
Five child-like characters find themselves in an abandoned restaurant. They turn it into the world of Chicken skin: where animals talk, fathers are frightening and souls get lost.
Director / designer: Jessica Edwards
Movement: Fionn Cox Davies
Man: Joel Phillimore
Woman: Martha Ellis Leach
Boy: Peter Shenai
Girl: Phoebe Eclair-Powell
Storyteller: Oliver Mann
Originally scratched as a site specific piece in Holywell Brasserie, a bankrupted restaurant in Oxford. Shortlisted for the Les Enfants Terribles Award 2012.
FOUND! / devised
How much would you be willing to share with a stranger? FOUND! is an interactive, crowd-embedded piece exploring intimacy and secret sharing. Turn up at your appointed time, and someone will come and find you...
Director / designer: Jessica Edwards
Performers: Joel Phillimore / Bekah Sparrow / James Manning / Becky Young / Sophia Satchell-Baeza / Rob Hoare-Nairne
Scratched at Brasenose College Oxford, FOUND! transferred to the Old Vic Tunnels in September 20111.
Antigone / Sophocles
Antigone, displaced into an underground S&M club. Creon controls the city with an intense mix of amphetamines, music and sexual depravity. Only Antigone stands against him. Re-worked for the concerns of a modern audience in a new verse translation, Antigone was originally performed as an immservie experience in the cellar nightclub in Oxford, May 2010.
Director / designer: Jessica Edwards
Adaptation: Rob Williams
Music: Laurence Osborn
Antigone: Phoebe Eclair-Powell
Creon: Chris Adams
Haimon: Jeremy Neumark-Jones
Torch by Phoebe Eclair-Powell
Is this what you imagined growing up to be? TORCH is a whole life lived out over one night. Fusing songs by iconic female performers – from Patti Smith to Taylor Swift – with moments of poetic honesty. Part gig, part reflecting and refracted stories, this is a riotous trip through one young woman coming to terms with loneliness.
Director: Jessica Edwards
Performer: Jess Mabel Jones
Designer: Amelia Jane Hankin
Light: Zoe Spurr
Sound: Alexandra Faye Braithwaite
Stage Management: Anna Hunscott
Producer: Rosalyn Newbery
Opened at Latitude Festival 2016, previewed at the New Diorama and ran at the Underbelly, Edinburgh Festival 2016.