Upcoming:

Next production in planning - ‘The Wall’

G&L are currently seeking partners to support phase 1 of the R&D for a new touring theatre work - ‘The Wall’ .Building towards a narrative based work, ‘The Wall’ stems out of research, stories and collected histories of dividing and divisive walls and borders, reflecting true stories of people and communities torn apart by war, belief systems, grief, loss and betrayal.

Images of tumbledown ruins of buildings, former homes where wrecking balls, bulldozers, tanks and mortar bombs have sheared through the building, ripping through facades to expose its guts; revealing remnants of lives lived, the skeleton of a staircase, the charred remains of a chimney, traces of historical wallpaper.

Harrowing footage and reportage of abandoned lives: crushed skulls, brains leaking into the blood drenched earth, belongings abandoned as people flee for their lives - the images contain the horror of the intolerable.

How do people survive conflict? How is it experienced personally in individual lives, the texture; the sights, sounds, tastes and emotions of conflict. How do people go about their lives and what happens in their head? What are the sounds people make as they ‘fall apart’?
How despite every horror imaginable do people continue to have hope and move on, forgive and forget? This ability is perhaps one of our greatest attributes and yet our downfall, as like an old gramophone stuck in a groove we repeat an endless cycle of destruction.

Too often it seems the ‘life’ of war is absent from the official descriptions; it becomes sanitised for our consumption leaving questions hanging about mans inhumanity to man and what it means to be human.

Working from a narrative base of collected true personal accounts and histories, Gravity & Levity aim to create a visceral piece concerning real issues about real people for real audiences.