A Young Vic and Fuel Production
Sound&Fury's
Kursk
In Collaboration with Bryony Lavery
Commissioned by The Junction, Cambridge

Funded by a Wellcome Trust Arts Award

In the year 2000, a Russian submarine, the Kursk, suffered a huge explosion that ripped the bow apart and sent the vessel to the seabed. Inspired by this tragic event, our production takes the audience on the imagined journey of a British Submarine sent to spy on the Kursk. The audience is subsumed in the submarine space with us, silent observers to the events as they unfold, complicit in our world of secrecy and codes, witnesses to the last minutes of the Kursk.

The piece puts the audience at the heart of the story using a novel and highly engaging staging that embraces both the epic and intensely personal, and which will be infused with Sound&Fury’s unique theatrical style.

Using cutting edge sound design that creates the sonic equivalent of a virtual submarine, Kursk is an authentic and emotionally rich voyage into the icy depths of the Barents Sea and the dark recesses of the imagination.

Created in collaboration with award winning playwright Byrony Lavery.

Kusk was first performed at the Young Vic in London in June2009 and was subsequently selected to be part of the British Council Showcase at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It is available for touring. Please contact Fuel for information.