Is In Our Blood — The Song Project
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An intimate four-night concert in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court. Dutch singer-songwriter Wende and Royal Court Artistic Associate Chloe Lamford invited five Royal Court writers — EV Crowe, Sabrina Mahfouz, Somalia Seaton, Stef Smith, Debris Stevenson — to spend a day talking together. Rage, dancing, sex, DNA, theatre, love, mothers, hatred, ritual: what emerged was shaped into lyrics, then into songs by Wende and Isobel Waller-Bridge.
The result is something that sits between concert and theatre, and the lighting design holds that ambiguity. Chloe Lamford’s design establishes the space; the lighting has to serve both the intimacy of the songs and the scale of what they contain.
Production
- Venue
- Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court Theatre, London
- Year
- 2019
- Producer
- Royal Court Theatre
Creative team
- Writers
- EV Crowe
- Sabrina Mahfouz
- Somalia Seaton
- Stef Smith
- Debris Stevenson
- Performer & Composer
- Wende
- Designer
- Chloe Lamford
- Choreographer
- Imogen Knight
- Composer
- Isobel Waller-Bridge
- Sound Designer
- David McSeveney
Photography
© Ali Wright Theatre Photography