something a taxi driver in Liverpool said...

Astounding. A blessing. Moving. Emotional. Challenging. Entertaining. Stimulating. Perfectly written. Angry. Peaceful. Beginning middle and beautiful end. I wish it never did.
Lemn Sissay, poet.

A journey in the dark for one person at a time.  

"I wanted to investigate how far it was possible to create a narrative that existed only in the audience member’s head. I wanted to play with the idea of fear and move beyond it.  I wanted to use no words in the dark, strip away the visual and explore our other senses – especially sound and smell. Smell has been important in many Quarantine projects: I made a smell design for See-Saw, and later, Frank. The smells and sensations of food were as important as the visual in EatEat.

I planted various objects in the dark space, specific and evocative for me, another story for the audience: grass, smell of violets, a jacket that smelled of the stables, a velvet box... These acted only as abstract triggers: what the audience choose to engage with and where they took their narratives were entirely their own choice.  A performer inhabited the darkness, guided or played with the visitor when necessary.

something…  has developed and changed through its performances. The physical shape is different in every location, and I have become gradually more interested in the challenges of its construction. The piece has a different meaning for me now."
Renny O'Shea, Director

Performers (in different combinations):

Jane Arnfield, Christine Devaney, Carla Henry, Chanje Kunda, Renny O’Shea, Darren Pritchard, Michael Sherin, Julia Turpin.

Conceived and created by Renny O’Shea. Sound advice Graeme Miller. Production Greg Akehurst. Room design Simon Banham.

First produced at Contact, Manchester in March 2001 as part of an At Home residency. Also shown at the Belfast and Edinburgh Festivals, Nuffield Theatre in Lancaster and VECC in Vancouver as part of a festival of British installation work.