Kursk tour

Kursk is back and will be embarking on a national tour throughout the UK from Friday 12 March. Tickets are now on sale at Bristol Old Vic and the Young Vic.
Bristol Old Vic (Fri 12 March - Sat 20 March)
Young Vic (Fri 26 March - Sat 17 April)
Junction Cambridge (Wed 21 April - Sat 24 April)
Northern Stage, Newcastle
(Wed 28 April - Sat 1 May)
Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry (Tues 4 May - Sat 8 May)
Liverpool Everyman (Wed 12 May - Sat 15 May)
Tramway Glasgow (Wed 19 May - Sun 23 May)

Sound&Fury take part in the Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2009

Sound&Fury were selected to take part in the Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2009. We worked with three young designers to envisage a design for our new piece Going Dark. On Friday 13th November it was announced that our final choice, Ales Valasek was nominated the pverall winner of the prestigious prize!

The finalists' work is being shown at the National Theatre from 12th November until 6th December. For more information click here. The other companies taking part this year inlcluded The Unicorn Theatre, Birmingham Opera and The Royal and Derngate, Northampton.

Sound&Fury will embark on two weeks of research and development for Going Dark at the Roundhouse, putting into practise the work carried out during the lead up to the Linbury prize. This will culminate in performances of the work in progress of Going Dark at the Roundhouse on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th January 2010.

Kursk at the Edinburgh Fringe - Part of the British Council Showcase

Kursk was performed at the University Drill Hall (former home of Black Watch) as part of the British Council Showcase. Performances ran from 20th - 29th August 2009.

Sound&Fury sell out Kursk at the Young Vic

"Outstanding" «««« The Evening Standard

"Wholly original" «««« The Guardian

"Intensely moving" «««« The Independent

After three and a half weeks of sell out performances Kursk has finally come to an end. Now on to Edinburgh!

International Russian TV picks up on Kursk

Russia Today desribes how the Kursk nuclear sub tragedy is remembered on stage: "this is a play about a brotherhood under the sea that transcends politics or conflict. The crew of the Kursk was part of that brotherhood, and central to this production is that their loss clearly echoes across international boarders." For the full story and newspiece click here.

Sound&Fury awarded their Dolphins

After the press night for Kursk, the company were all presented with Submariners' Dolphins in an extremely moving mock-passing out ceremony led by Bob Nunn and Ian Tyson formaly of the Submariners' Association. It has been an extraordinary experience getting this production up and running and so to be whole heartedly accepted by the submarine community is a real privilege.

Sound&Fury selected for prestigious Young Vic Wilson Bros scheme

Sound&Fury's directors said they were both thrilled and excited to be selected for the Young Vic Wilson Bros programme 2008-9.

The scheme, aimed at emerging directors, involves a year-long artistic association between the theatre and those selected to become Wilson Bros.

Mark Espiner, Tom Espiner and Dan Jones applied jointly for the scheme as Sound&Fury in collaboration with Bryony Lavery on their Kursk project.

Besides the offer to stage a show at the Young Vic on The Cut in London, Wilson Bros also offers creative mentoring from the Young Vic's artistic director David Lan and artistic associates Joe Hill-Gibbons and Matthew Dunster and producer Sue Emmas, as well as forging links with the Young Vic's partners beyond the capital and the UK including the Maly Theatre in St Petersburg.

Other directors selected include William Oldroyd, Sarah Tipple and Carrie Cracknell, currently co-artistic director at The Gate theatre in London.

Wilson Bros takes its name from the butcher shop that occupied the site of the Young Vic before it became a theatre, and whose faded sign can still be seen above the box office. "We are relishing the opportunity to work
closely with a theatre whose work we greatly admire and alongside other directors. We feel very privileged," Sound&Fury's directors said on being selected for the scheme.

Wellcome Trust Arts Award for Kursk

Sound&Fury are delighted to announce that the Wellcome Trust have made the company an award to help in the development of the Kursk Project. Sound&Fury will work in consultation with a number of submarine psychiatrists to investigate the psychological effects of life under the sea.

Tom to work with Bryony Lavery on Bloody Chamber

This autumn Tom will be working with Bryony Lavery on her new show Bloody Chamber with the Northern Stage company in Newcastle.  He is playing the part of Jean-Ives - a blind piano tuner - in Neil Murray's production. The show opens on 26th September and runs until 11th October 2008.  For more info visit www.northernstage.co.uk

Sound&Fury to take part in Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Beyond Text initiative.

Tom is taking up a part-time post as a contributor and performance consultant (with Sound&Fury) on a cross-disciplinary project entitled "Street Life & Street Culture : Between Early Modern and the Present".  He will be part of a research network consisting historians, art historians, architectural historians, cultural anthropologists, social geographers, architects and urban planners, performers and artists, to discuss the social and physical environment of the street in a cross-disciplinary manner and across a broad chronological sweep.

Part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Beyond Text intiative. www.beyondtext.ac.uk

Tonto Woman receives Oscar nomination for Best Short Film

Tonto Woman, a film that artistic director Dan Jones scored last year, has received an Oscar nomination for Best Short Film. The awards will be announced on Sunday 24th February 2007.


New website launched

We hope you like our new website, designed by Joe Gilmore of Qubik. If you have any feedback, please contact us.

Organisational development grant from Arts Council England

Sound&Fury were awarded an Organisational development grant from the Arts Council in January 2007. This grant is allowing us to develop new projects in collaboration with our producers, Fuel. Click here to find out about projects in development.

Tim Crouch's England wins three awards at the Edinburgh Fringe

England, with sound design by Sound&Fury's Dan Jones, won a Fringe First, a Herald Archangel, and a Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Click here for more information.

Tom Espiner receives Artist in Residence award from Birmingham University

Tom Espiner has recently been made an artist in residence in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Birmingham University. Alongside working with students to explore the dynamic relationship between arts and science, he will develop ideas for a new performance piece, Going Dark.