Keep a Light On For Those Who Are Lost, is a dark fairytale inspired by experiences of the past year, the importance of rituals and the desire to reach out to the ones we love.
Since October 2020, Bush Theatre’s resident adult company, the Neighbourhood Company have been working online with Director Abigail Graham and Writer Titas Halder. Sadly it hasn’t been possible to create a play for live performance, however wishing to still find a way to reach out with a piece of storytelling, we have created an audio-visual installation in our building.
Telling our stories in these new ways were only possible to tell by collaborating with Anna Clock (Sound and Music), Melanie Frances (Digital Artist), Isha Shah (Photographer) and Jai Morjaria (Lighting Design).
We hope you enjoy your journey through the forest.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Keep a Light On For Those Who Are Lost – Online is a digital installation, featuring audio, images and video content, as well as moments where you navigate a digital environment with your mouse or keyboard. It is available on-demand worldwide.
The piece is best experienced on a desktop or laptop computer and using headphones, however you can also use a phone or tablet. Find out more.
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From 2013-2017 Abigail was the founding Artistic Director of OpenWorks Theatre, an organisation dedicated to changing who goes to the theatre by changing who makes it. Theatre work as a Director includes: Earthquakes in London (Guildhall), The Tyler Sisters (Hampstead), Linda (RADA), 31 Hours (The Bunker), Death of a Salesman (Royal and Derngate/UK Tour), And Now: The World! (OpenWorks, UK tour), Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (Assembly Rooms), Debris (OpenWorks, Southwark Playhouse), Molly Sweeney (Print Room/Lyric Belfast), Blue Heaven (Finborough). Directing in community and education includes Almeida, Young Vic, Clean Break, Synergy. Future work includes: Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith), MUM (Plymouth Drum/Soho Theatre).
Anna Clock is a composer, sound designer and cellist working across theatre, film, radio and installation. Recent credits include: Crave (Chichester Festival Theatre), Wild (Unicorn Theatre), Earthquakes in London (Guildhall School of Music and Drama), Not F**ckin’ Sorry, Shuck ‘n’ Jive, Soft Animals (Soho Theatre), I Wanna Be Yours (Paines Plough & Tamasha, UK Tour/Bush Theatre), Easy (Blue Elephant Theatre), Groove (Outbox Theatre), Admin, Miss Fortunate (Vault Festival, 2019), Anguis (BBC Arts & Avalon Productions/Edinburgh Fringe, 2019), Summer Fest (NYT at The Bunker Theatre), Armadillo (Yard Theatre), Fatty Fat Fat (Canada Water Theatre/Camden Roundhouse/Edinburgh Fringe & Tour), The Love of the Nightingale, The Lower Depths (Fourth Monkey Studio Theatre), Fighter (Stratford Circus), Twelfth Night (Southwark Playhouse), Punk Rock, Pomona (New Diorama).
Melanie Frances (Mel) is a digital storyteller and a creative mathematician. She creates multi- and inter-disciplinary artworks, using gaming and performance to build responsive, meaningful and dynamic interactive experiences. Mel’s work ranges from virtual reality to interactive novels, escape rooms to playable live theatre. She is currently a commissioned writer with Paper Nations, exploring new models of storytelling for the smartphone, and a Game Play artist with The Place, developing a new piece about alternative economic futures. Mel is also the Joint Artistic Director of Produced Moon, with whom she creates live performance and multi-reality experiences.
Titas is a writer, director and musician working across theatre, film and music. Following his first two plays Run The Beast Down (Finborough, Marlowe Theatre) and Escape the Scaffold (Theatre 503, The Other Room), he was nominated for Best Writer at the Stage Debut Awards. His play The Basement was a finalist for the Verity Bargate Award. He is currently writing his first feature film. His work with community theatre and young people includes an adaptation of Strindberg’s Easter (RADA), and a new play for the Lyric Hammersmith. Previously for the Bush he directed The Goat At Midnight (66 BOOKS).
