Sound&Fury
Sound&Fury is directed by Mark Espiner, Tom Espiner and Dan Jones. It draws on the disciplines of theatre, Foley artistry, sound design, music and storytelling. Its key artistic interest is in developing the sound space of theatre and presenting new ways of experiencing theatre and stories by heightening the aural sense. Their work has been twice selected for an Arts Council UK tour billed as the future of British theatre and has been included by the British Council in its group of touring companies. 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.
Sound&Fury & the Darkroom
The Darkroom was for us an extraordinary, collaborative and exceptionally creative experience. Its unique nurturing hand and sensitive supportive environment set in motion a project that has been one of the most creatively fulfilling for Sound and Fury to date. It led directly to the successful and critically acclaimed production Kursk. The careful pairing of our company with playwright Bryony Lavery, where the only objective was for us to work together without any restrictive goals - no show and tell, no performance to satisfy interested parties - unlocked a new way of working. It was wholly collaborative and reinvented for us the idea of how a play is written. It became a joint exercise, a project with momentum that gathered creative partners. Bryony and Sound and Fury discovered a new, sharing and invigorating process out of it, which was a direct result of the first week at the Hurst. It is no small claim to say the show we created would not have been made without the Darkroom.
