Productions

Lightning Ensemble explores how close-up theatre, illusion and interaction can empower the relationship between audience and actor.


2011

1908: The First London Games

Commission from Creative Campus Initiative


  Come Back Yesterday

Commission from NHS to create a training programme on communication

Winter Gardens, Blackpool

Shortlisted to create a promenade performance in the Winter Gardens, Blackpool

2010

Love Karaoke

A bedside comedy designed as a ‘micro’ performance for commissioned by St Georges Hospital, Tooting

2009

Dec

The Thameslink Inquiry

A script development day for a new writer’s play exploring the planning process’s impact on a local community


Oct

Bordello

A script development day for a new writer’s play exploring sexploitation and power

National Poetry

Interactive performance around poetry for Wandsworth’s Community heroes. Funded by the Arts Council and Wandsworth Arts and the Town Centre Managers.


May & Sept

Superbugs

An interactive play exploring the transmission of MRSA and C.Diff in the community, and commissioned by Hackney PCT for its Community Nurses and Matrons. The play also ‘toured’ various community venues.

2008

Nov

Blackfriars Settlement: Survey Launch

Lightning Ensemble produced a celebration of a survey conducted by Blackfriars Settlement a social inclusion charity founded in 1887

Blackfriars Settlement commission


Oct

National Poetry Day

Interactive street poetry

A commission from Wandsworth Arts


Sept

SE1 – The Play

A commission by the website www.london-SE1.co.uk to celebrate its tenth birthday by producing a piece of theatre interweaving stories from its message-board into the fabric of a party.

Capital community foundation, Land Securities,
Better Bankside, Native Land,
Financial Times


Aug

St George’s Hospital Arts Walk

Inspired by the Ealing Comedy film, The Ladykillers, Lightning Ensemble created a promenade performance through St George’s Hospital

St George’s Hospital Charitable Trust


2007

Dec

The Chess Players

Slowing down time : Performance and installation

St Georges Hospital, Tooting & Wandsworth Arts


Nov

National Poetry Day

Interactive street poetry

A commission from Wandsworth Arts


Sept

The Sonnets Project

Interactive performance : Shakespeare & contemporary poems

Chelsea & Westminster Hospital/National Lottery


Aug

Brent Life

Improvising with sound & theatre : A daily radio soap opera performed on the streets and in homes of Harlesden residents and broadcast on Life 103.6 FM

Millennium Unltd Awards / Life FM


June

The Mayday

A site-specific play in The Staging Post pub, Leeds

D’Oyly Carte charitable Trust, arts@Leeds, Yorkshire Forward


April

The Sonnets Project

Interactive poetry

Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and The Westminster Mental Health Unit


Jan

Out Catching Criminals

Recorded live, a radio drama for the sonic arts radio station
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Resonance FM