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SOUND & FURY / Image: Ether Frolics / Photographer: Ed Collier

Image: Ether Frolics
Photographer: Ed Collier

SOUND & FURY

Performance|Physical/visual theatre|Devised theatre

SIZE OF COMPANY
3–11 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small

PERMANENT STAFF
Co-Directors
Mark Espiner
Tom Espiner
Dan Jones
Producer
Ed Collier

ARTISTIC POLICY
Sound & Fury is a collaborative theatre company whose artistic interest is in developing the sound space of theatre. The company presents the audience with new ways of experiencing performance and stories by heightening the aural sense. One of Sound & Fury’s signature techniques is the use of total darkness.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
A feast for the ears and a rare workout for the imagination – theatre at its most potently intimate.
The Independent on Sunday
Total theatre that doesn't just happen all around you, but that swallows you up completely.
The Guardian
An extraordinary piece of theatre. Form and content are perfectly married.
The Guardian

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Kursk
A collaborative project with writer Bryony Lavery inspired by the Kursk submarine disaster. The audience will be immersed in and witness the submariner’s world of command and control, secrecy and codes.
Ether Frolics
A visceral, provocative, disturbing and sometimes comic journey into the history and contemporary practice of anaesthesia. A collaboration with artists from Shunt.
Ether Frolics: A Second Opinion
A one man re-working of Ether Frolics created to be performed in medical environments.

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
The Planetarium Project
One man’s stories of the stars and his family, This piece will take place in a touring planetarium.

WRAP-AROUND
Post-show discussions, workshops and residencies. Sound & Fury’s sessions explore the sensorial potential of theatre and the process of layering text to create meaning within devised work.

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Kursk: Available from May 2009
Ether Frolics (both versions) available now
The Planetarium Project: Available from spring 2010