Sound&Fury

Sound&Fury is a collaborative theatre company directed by Mark Espiner, Tom Espiner and Dan Jones. Their artistic interest is in developing the physical and sonic elements of theatre offering the audience new ways of experiencing performance and stories in an immersive environment and by heightening the aural sense. To achieve these aims, Sound&Fury has, in the past, boldly immersed its audience in total darkness. This unique theatrical device combined with sophisticated surround sound design, imaginative acoustic devices, voice and subtle lighting effects creates a powerful new language for theatre that has gained the attention of the media and the critics.

Previous work includes The Watery Part of the World – where the audience were plunged into total darkness where they witnessed the thrill of a 19th century whale hunt – and Ether Frolics, which took the audience on a theatrical anaesthetic trip, and the critically acclaimed Kursk saw Sound&Fury place its audience in the secret world of a Royal Navy submarine. In each of these cases fractured images, glimpses of scenes, visual and sonic tricks and a 360 degree sound scape have created worlds which have redefined the performance space in ways which audiences find thrilling, transporting and disorienting.

The Guardian has described their performance style as “Total theatre that doesn't just happen all around you, but that swallows you up completely ... you feel as if you are experiencing the whole thing through your skin.”

www.soundandfury.org.uk