Throughout his life he has been drawn to the sea, so much so that he became a cartographer, spending his days walking and drawing the coastline. But the sea is a long way from his home in the Midlands, and on one particular walk along the coast Robert is forced to question where it is he truly belongs.
Join us for a unique sensory folktale experience about the Midlands and the pull of the world outside of what you’ve always known. Using multi-sensory methods of storytelling, including soundscapes, live foley, touch, and integrated audio description, this show is a gentle ode to the known and allure of the unknown, made and performed for small groups.
Access
Audio Description is delivered via character voice over. No headset is required.
The 4pm performance will have BSL interpretation.
Please note this is work-in-progress performance and therefore is still in development. This includes elements of accessibility. We always appreciate feedback on access. Please do not hesitate to get in touch via access@nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk.
Dan is a Nottingham-based Director, Writer, Theatre-maker, and Stage Manager. He is a 2024/25 New Associate for New Perspectives. Lots of the work they create revolves around disassembling the canon through adaptation and queering narratives. Dan enjoys creating work that is abstract and surreal but that retains a human core. Dan has been playwrighting for eight years including a run of his adaptation of Woyzeck, ‘Franz and Marie: Woyzeck Retold’, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and then Nottingham Lakeside Arts, and their adaptation of ‘Doctor Faustus’ which they originally directed and was recently revived in 2024 for a new production. His script ‘Richard of York’ is currently a top 10 finalist in the Carlo Annoni International Playwriting Award 2024. As a director Dan has worked on projects including ‘Provocation’ by Thomas Heath, ‘Rage’ by Simon Stephens, and ‘Pareidolia’, the latter of which they wrote, and put on in nontraditional spaces in 2019, then as a piece of digital theatre in 2020. He has also assistant directed on projects including ‘It’s Not Rocket Science’ and ‘Insulted: Belarus(sia)’.
Sophie Jane Corner is a New Perspectives Associate (2024/2025) she studied Drama Studies at Demontfort university, Leicester (2015,2018). Since then she has gained credits within; film, theatre, commercial work and voice over with over fifty credits to her name. Sophie has continued her training with movement workshops notability, Advanced and Masterclass workshops with Frantic Assembly. She is also BADC Member Yoga Teacher Training (200 hrs) and most recently unarmed and rapier training with Kiel O’shea (BADC accredited). Her current focus is on physical theatre, being hired by Nottingham Playhouse as a physical theatre / movement specialist and director and writing poetry under her dedicated social media @inlimbophase. Sophie is currently writing and producing her first film ‘Hindsight’ filming later this year, which combines her specialist skills under one format. Sophie is a founding member of “Amplify Actors Collective”, and has founded her own physical theatre company “Cornered” launching this October 2024.
Tom is currently Deputy Head of sound at Nottingham Playhouse. Sound credits whilst there include: Production Sound 2 – Dear Evan Hansen (Nottingham Playhouse); Sound 1 – The Trials (Nottingham Playhouse); Sound 1 – Punch (Nottingham Playhouse) Sound 1 – The Children (Nottingham Playhouse); Sound 2/Mix cover – Minority Report (Nottingham Playhouse); Sound 1 – Cinderella (Nottingham Playhouse); Sound 1 – The Real and Imagined history of the Elephant Man (Tour).
Some of Tom’s other credits include: Technical Manager – Grenfell System Failure (London Tour); Tech Swing (Sound/Auto) – Get up Stand up (Lyric Theatre); Production Electrician – Doctor Who: Time Fracture (Immersive Everywhere); LX Swing – Choir of Man (Arts Theatre); Associate Technician – The Great Gatsby (Immersive Everywhere); Automation Swing – Jersey Boys (Trafalgar Theatre); Technical Manager – Grenfell: Value Engineering (The Tabernacle); Construction Manager and Sound 1 – Red Light Winter (Turbine Theatre).
