Dusk

2014

An installation, film and performance project for children exploring the idea of change

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Dusk interweaves film and live performance to create a magical experience in which 4-7 year old children play a central role.

Nestled together in the heart of a hand-built forest, a group of creatures with furry tails are watching and waiting for someone to arrive. Their friend has a long way to travel, many things to discover and huge challenges to face.

Dusk 2014 photo by Matthew Andrews

 
 
 

Utterly ravishing... Life’s never boring when you have a tail to play with and it’s a wrench to leave Dusk’s twinkling world.

Time Out

 
 
 

Dusk 2014 photo by Matthew Andrews

 
 

...this piece for four to seven year olds ends on such an endorphin rush that the whole family emerges grinning inanely... An enthralling and deeply affecting call of the wild for families.
The Stage

...a show that creates two worlds, one in the theatre and one on film, and then makes then collide… the children are genuinely surprised and delighted.
The Guardian

Fevered Sleep have created a hybrid piece of film and theatre that enables the audience to re-think just how we see everything around us – both in a city and the natural world.
Bargain Theatreland

David Harradine, director of Fevered Sleep, wants to make strange, beautiful theatre for little people, and he's not talking Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He's talking green, ecologically sound vistas of change and renewal, a new dawn, a bright sky.
WhatsOnStage

 
 
 

Meet the Team

 
 

THE SHOW

Company Stage Manager: Liz Kay
Costume Design: Jess Tiller, Jo Hayes
Direction & Design: David Harradine & Sam Butler
Design & Production Manager: Ali Beale
Light animation, Programming: Nick Malbon
Light Animation, Surface Build: Jacob Hughes, Kate Tinkler, Ruth Stringer 
Music Composer: David Leahy
Performers: Nasi Voutsas, Nick Lawson
Lighting: Hansjörg Schmidt
Set Painting: Gillian Campbell
Set Building: Factory Settings Ltd
Sound Design: Gareth Fry

 

Technical Stage Management: Sam Evans

THE FILM

Performers:
Antigone Avdi, Ben Barter, Sam Butler, Juno Robinson Butler, Scarlett Butler-Broad, Tallulah Butler-Broad, Mariana Camiloti, Adam Colborne, Finlay Cronshaw, Lisa Cronshaw, Amelia Donkor, Natalie Londono, Tyler McPherson, Joanie Hansen-Mayne, Henry Montes, Ava Murray, Ifor Owen, Carl Patrick, William Powell, Ben Robinson, Jessie Russell, Nasi Voutsas

Cinematographer & Post Production: Will Duke
Sound Design: Gareth Fry
Music: David Leahy
First Assistant Director: Ali Beale
First Assistant Camera: Andy Pritchard
Sound Recordist: Maciej Miskiewicz
Sound Sync: Bruce Asher
Second Unit Assistant: Gursen Houssein
Runners: Nick Lester, Poppy Weir, Ieuan Ritchie,
Hae-Eun Lee
Singer: Angeline Conaghan
Foley Artist: Ruth Sullivan
Sound Editor: Pete Malkin
Foley recording at Up4Loud: Alan Snelling
ADR recording at art4noise: Nick Baldock

 

Commissioned by

Pontio, Bangor

 

Supported by

Stratford CIrcus

 

A co-production between

 

Fevered Sleep and The Young Vic
Produced in association with Fuel