NS Archive 2021: Scroll
Can We Come In? was designed to meet audiences in their homes; a programme of specially commissioned digital micro-stories, plus the very best digital capture of plays, streamed on demand. It launched on 27 January 2021 with ‘Scroll’, an antidote to ‘doom scrolling’ in a series of digital story interventions commissioned by Northern Stage to replace the moments of mindless scrolling with tiny stories. Scroll featured new work by Adam Lendson, Bridget Minamore, Chris Sonnex, Daniel Bye, Daniel York Loh, Leo Skilbeck, Tabby Lamb, Sampira and Uproot Productions.
Scroll
Page a Day
8:45pm – To be experienced while running a bath
When a young woman’s life is unexpectedly disrupted she is forced to begin a process of repair. Despite a secular Jewish upbringing in Newcastle she somehow finds herself reading the Talmud, a densely written ancient text that’s nearly 3,000 pages long. ‘Page A Day’ is a short audio play about ritual, history, daily mindfulness, and finding ways of being together even when we are forced apart.
Scroll is designed as the antidote to ‘doom scrolling’, a series of digital story interventions commissioned by Northern Stage, replacing the moments of mindless scrolling with tiny stories about us.
CREATIVE TEAM
Devised by Adam Lenson, Dora Rubinstein, and Curtis Volp Performed by Dora Rubinstein Music Composed and Performed by Curtis Volp Directed by Adam Lenson
5 Minute Wake Up
To be viewed as soon as you wake, or when you need a five minute reset.
5 Minute Wake Up is a short film designed to do just that – to wake you and ease you into the day. In this meditative film, you’ll journey from Manchester at dawn and out into the Peak District. Incremental and hypnotic, an early morning dream, this film draws on process videos, long journeys, and the gradual glow of sun up.
Created by Leo Skilbeck (previous shorts include: BIG BEN (Young Vic), Love Song For The Wild (Homotopia), Not That Kind of Film (Derby Theatre), Leo invites you to spend the first 5 minutes of your day on yourself through this film.
CREATIVE TEAM
Written & created by Leo Skilbeck
Music composed and produced by David Lewington
Production Manager Adam Robertson
Silent Disco In The Sky
To be experienced while waiting for the bus.
Black and minority ethnic people are twice as likely to die from Covid-19 as white people.
So when you’re on the front line in the path of a ruthless pandemic with no papers, no status and no adequate protection against either the virus or the toxic racism that permeates in the air…
And your best friend dies, you can only dance alone and you can only dance silently.
More Filipino healthcare workers have died of Covid-19 in the UK than in the Philippines. The Philippines has a population of 109 million, with a Filipino population in the UK of 200,000 making up 0.3% of the total population.
Silent Disco in the Sky is inspired by research interviews conducted by Daniel York Loh and Rajesh Thind.
CREATIVE TEAM
Written & Created by Daniel York Loh
Performed by Ericka Posadas
Produced by Moongate
Special thanks Gwendolyn Sim, Jennifer Lim, Rajesh Thind, Ghost & John
Welcome to Your New Day
To be experienced at 7.15am when you wake up in the morning.
Do you sometimes find yourself overwhelmed by the accumulation of life’s minor challenges? Does contemplating even a medium-sized task feel a little bit like drowning? Well, thank goodness you’ve downloaded this free sample of Welcome to Your New Day. Sit quietly in a chair before your day begins. Close your eyes. Listen. This essential life aid will slowly calm the stormy seas, and land you safely back on the beach. WARNING: Welcome to Your New Day cannot be held responsible if, subsequent to downloading it, you actually do drown. Literally or metaphorically.
By Daniel Bye
Music by Ziad Jabero
Content information: contains content relating to mental health issues. Age recommendation: 12+