A Shanty for an Atomic Town
Presented by Obscura Theatre
Composer & Author: Patch Middleton
Direction: Emily Oulton
Musical Direction: Ellie Verkerk
Movement Direction: Ken Nakajima
Designer: Lizzy Leech
Assistant Sound Design: Elliot Wallace
Assistant Director: Emily Payne
Stage Management: Alice Winters
Ensemble:
Kemi Clarke, Meg Narongchai, Heather Gourdie, Sam Lightfoot-Loftus
A new actor-musician folk-horror musical exploring a Cumbrian seaside town’s relationship to nuclear power, superstition and the ocean. With a score intersecting traditional shanties and electronic soundscapes, community foundations are shaken when a living girl is found inside a dead beached whale.
