Bardo

Sheffield & London, 2015 – 2016

Director: Malaika Cunningham
Writer: Joseph Houlders
Producer: Charlotte Mountford
Sound Designer: Dimitris Savva
Lighting Designer: Will Monks
Projection Mapping Design: Michele Panegrossi
Set Designer: Laura Price
Performers: Lianne Harvey, John Sandeman, Charlotte Fox, Rose Gray and Shireen Farkhoy
Mental Health Advisor: Liz Hudson

 

Supported by Arts Council England, Barnsley Civic and Theatre Delicatessen

 

Test performances and R&D locations:
Theatre Delicatessen
Sheffield Theatres
East Street Arts (Leeds)
Barnsley Civic
Camden People’s Theatre

A darkly comic clown show, in which our hero literally dances with death. 

 

The piece revolved around the tragicomic relationship between a lonely dancer and a dead body. It was about death, reality and exuberant dancing. 

 

Alongside this project we hosted a series of Death Cafes in Sheffield, Leeds and London.

A darkly comic clown show, in which our hero literally dances with death. 

 

The piece revolved around the tragicomic relationship between a lonely dancer and a dead body. It was about death, reality and exuberant dancing. 

 

Alongside this project we hosted a series of Death Cafes in Sheffield, Leeds and London.

Company List

Director
Malaika Cunningham
Writer
Joseph Houlders
Producer
Charlotte Mountford
Sound Designer
Dimitris Savva
Lighting Designer
Will Monks
Projection Mapping Design
Michele Panegrossi
Set Designer
Laura Price
Performers
Lianne Harvey, John Sandeman, Charlotte Fox, Rose Gray and Shireen Farkhoy
Mental Health Advisor
Liz Hudson

 

Supported by Arts Council England, Barnsley Civic and Theatre Delicatessen

 

Test performances and R&D locations:
Theatre Delicatessen
Sheffield Theatres
East Street Arts (Leeds)
Barnsley Civic
Camden People’s Theatre

Photography by Joanna Higson.

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  • At a Death Café, people gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. There is no agenda, objective or theme – other than death. It is not a grief support group or counselling session, it’s just an opportunity to discuss death, with cake....