Category: Theatre
Client: multi-award winning theatre company curious directive (an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation 2018-2022)
Role: composition, arrangement, performance, production
About the show:
It's 2018, a police officer arrives at Meera's coral laboratory. Meera is interrogated about Ashleigh Richardson, a 13-year-old girl who went missing in 1995.
It's 1995, and Meera is eleven. It’s her first sleepover with her best friends, Lily and Shaun.
Cassette recordings from the radio and Sega Mega Drive distract them from theories about Ashleigh’s disappearance. Outside, on the Great Barrier Reef, police divers are on a search- and-rescue mission by torchlight.
At the crossroads of contemporary performance and cutting-edge tech, FROGMAN is a coming-of-age thriller exploring the fragility of the childhood imagination. Audiences experience the 1995 storyline in a 360 degree VR environment. At once a coming-of-age drama, supernatural thriller and pioneering integration of live performance and virtual reality, Frogman will sweep you up in its wake.
British Council Showcase 2017
'curious directive are theatre pioneers' - The Daily Telegraph
★★★★ ‘...touching and nostalgic.’ – The Independent
★★★★ ‘a 360 heightening of the senses’ – The Sunday Mail
The show has been performed in Edinburgh, London, and around the UK, as well as in Australia, Singapore, Norway, Indonesia, South Africa, and Hong Kong and mainland China.