Acclaimed performance maker Tamara Saulwick employs portable turntables, reel-to-reel tape players and live performance in a moving meditation on cycles and the ending of things. Featuring the voice of Paddy Mann (Grand Salvo), an electro-acoustic score by Peter Knight, and design by Ben Cobham, Endings explores the experiences – both ordinary and extraordinary – that cluster around death, dying and afterlife.
Endings is built, in part, from one-on-one interviews: real people’s stories, reflections and voices. Cut onto bespoke vinyl records, these voices are embedded in a richly textured sound design; operated, accompanied and extended through live performance and song.
Voices of the living emerge from the crackle of records turning, vintage reel-to-reels send tape loops round the space. Performers converse with recorded thoughts from the past…and a voice floats through this evocative sound-world, singing an ode to the recently departed…
“It’s remarkable theatre, executed with an exact brilliance that makes its sensual vividness all the more powerful.” Alison Croggon, on Pin Drop
This Postshow Q&A was recorded Thursday 14th May 2015
Concept, Writing & Performance: Tamara Saulwick
Audio Design & Composition: Peter Knight
Songwriting & Performance: Paddy Mann
Set & Lighting Design: Ben Cobham (bluebottle)
Dramaturgy: Margaret Trail
Costume Design: Harriet Oxley
Technical Management & Operation: Nick Roux
Production Management: Emily O’Brien
Producer: Freya Waterson (Insite Arts)
