The Deadlift by Stef Smith

01/26/21 • 15 min

Stef Smith’s The Deadlift places the listener in the extreme present, inside the experiences of two women fighting for a way forward. Injury, isolation, domestic inertia, and the strong hand of personal habits and history, all offer impediments. But the steady and sometimes brutal logic of lifting weights offers a discipline, a practice, a path to progress, but also creates a space to reflect and to heal. Part poem, part play, part meditation, performed by Ashley Smith and Renee Williams and with live percussion by Australian musician, Alon Ilsar, The Deadlift is the perfect place to begin Earwig Season 1.

Creator/Composer/Sound Designer – Danny Krass
Directed by Finn den Hertog
Performed by Ashley Smith & Renee Williams
Drums/Percussion: Alon Ilsar
Original music by Danny Krass and Alon Ilsar
Earwig has been commissioned by Tron Theatre with support from the Scottish Government’s Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund, administered by Creative Scotland.

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Earwig Season 1 Introduction

The premier season of Earwig presents new six new pieces by Scottish based playwrights, commissioned especially to explore the possibilities of sonic theatre. Incorporating text, sound design and music, Earwig seeks to challenge, inspire, envelope and embrace its audience, inviting you deep in to the inner world of its characters, placing you, the listener, at the centre of the drama.
Episode 1 will premiere on the 27th January 2021.
Earwig was commissioned by Tron Theatre with support from the Scottish Government’s Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund, administered by Creative Scotland.

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There is still something yet to discover (or Baba Yaga comes to you - when you are sleeping) by Hannah Lavery

Densely Poetic, uncanny, and wise, Hannah Lavery’s There is still something yet to discover is a walk in the woods like no other. Fiercely contemporary yet timeless, this uncompromising exploration confronts the impossibility of self-knowledge, the cruel and slippery elasticity of time, and the bewitching influence of folklore as it seeps through invisible gaps in our physical world and manifests in a dark and soulful waking dream. Through this lens we see motherhood, domesticity, and social isolation anew, in a deeply personal and meditative sonic Poem. Adding extra resonance are the singular and subtly dissonant sounds of Julia Reidy’s twelve string guitar.
Creator/Composer/Sound Designer: Danny Krass
Directed by Finn den Hertog
Performed by Sharon Duncan-Brewster & Kathryn Joseph
Guitar: Julia Reidy
Original music by Julia Reidy and Danny Krass
Earwig has been commissioned by Tron Theatre with support from the Scottish Government’s Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund, administered by Creative Scotland.