We are presenting our theatre double-bill: Invisible Mending and Concept for a Film
Catch 2 shows in one with our special double bill deal available in the link below
Invisible Mending
A show about love, grief and knitting, Invisible Mending combines original music, metaphysics and verbatim material to explore the power in small acts of creativity.
In the summer of 2020, as a pandemic raged, Yoshika was processing the death of her beloved grandmother, Ann. A woman of few words, Ann’s one great creative outlet was knitting. And not just any knitting. Her projects were intricate, virtuosic works of art, which still adorn the wardrobes of her nearest and dearest. As she reached the end of her life, Ann started a new project. Too wide for a scarf, too narrow for a jumper, this project was following no plan. She was simply using up the last of her wool. Yoshika now takes up this piece where Ann left off.
Concept for a Film
Blends radical mycology, vulnerable autobiography and experimental sound and music design in order to explore the fundamental interconnectivity of the world and a human race on the brink of self-induced destruction.
The piece juxtaposes an imagined disaster movie where fungi start fighting back, magic mushroom trips, explorations of human colonisation, and the creation of a huge sensor-responsive analogue synth made in the form of an underground mycelial network.
ABOUT
Invisible Mending is the premiere of a collaboration between award-winning theatre-maker/musicians Yoshika Colwell and Max Barton (of Second Body).
The piece is performed and written by Yoshika, with Max directing, co-writing and performing live music and sound processing.
Yoshika is a musician, writer and theatre maker from Kent, whose career has seen her fronting York-based trip-hop outfit LUUNA, performing internationally with the Flanagan Collective and writing and performing in her own plays.
She is a founding member of Mind Over Matter Collective, whose production of Paul Broks’ On Ego received wide critical acclaim for its marriage of the emotional and the cerebral.
Concept for a Film is by Second Body, a new theatre company founded by experimental theatre/music makers Max Barton and Jethro Cooke in 2019.
Their debut show STYX has toured extensively internationally won a Fringe World Award in Perth, received twelve ★★★★★ reviews, and saw the company shortlisted for a Total Theatre Award for an emerging company in their founding year. Their as-yet-unreleased debut album Terra was an award-winning runner-up at the 2022 Arts Foundation Futures Awards.
As climate activists, science enthusiasts and multi-instrumentalists, the pair are dedicated to fusing music, theatre and cutting-edge science in order to shed new light on pressing socio-political issues.
REVIEWS FROM PREVIOUS SHOWS
“A moving, gorgeous song cycle about inheritance, loss and the fragility of memory - Natasha Tripney Evokes a half-remembered song suddenly falling into a melody, with the people you love buried between the notes”
“A gorgeously atmospheric, exquisitely lit, ear-tingling journey into the past and memory itself”
Performance Info:
Dates: 26th July 2022
Times: Invisible Mending 7pm - 8.10pm | Interval 8.10 - 8.45pm | Concept for a Film 8.45pm - 9.45pm
Age Guidance: 12+ (mind profanity)