sleepdogs is a collaboration between writer/composer Timothy X Atack and producer/director Tanuja Amarasuriya. We work with stories and prompts to the imagination across theatre, film, sound and online.
Our work is characterised by imaginative storytelling and detailed, integrated sound design. We’re interested in hybrid genres, the splicing of traditions, mixing and matching. As collaborators, we share a love of finding common ground in seemingly conflicting material: the commercial and the experimental, the comic and the horrific, the complex and the hopelessly naïve.
We believe it’s in the inbetween spaces that you find the truly interesting stuff: the feelings and ideas we want to share with an audience — stories that haven’t been told quite that way before, scenic routes not yet taken, familiar emotions made complex again.
“What starts out as ludicrous standup in feathers and claw feet carries with it a startling emotional trajectory, moving from savage humour to a haunting final scene.” The Guardian, on Buzzard.
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