Astronaut

performance | 17 mins written and performed by Timothy X Atack | directed by Tanuja Amarasuriya A short performance for human being and dictaphone. This is a moon landing: a simple story that journeys far away into the vast, dark, emptiness of outer space. Astronaut merges simple storytelling with detailed light and sound design; inviting the audience… Read more »

The Morpeth Carol

performance | 60mins 
written by Timothy X Atack | directed by Tanuja Amarasuriya   
 “Sometimes a piece of performance is so right that it makes you feel glad to be alive and in possession of senses. The Morpeth Carol is such a piece.“ – Venue Magazine   A housing estate on the edge of some un-named… Read more »

SUPERNOVA

one-on-one performance | 15 mins performed by Jessica Macdonald | written by Timothy X Atack | directed by Tanuja Amarasuriya You’re led into the darkness and asked to stand until the sound stops. SUPERNOVA is a sci-fi tale of light, how we use it, and the problems it causes. There will be noise and heat… Read more »

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short film written and directed by Timothy X Atack | produced by Tanuja Amarasuriya A very short film indeed about the world’s stupidest band. Everyone knows how to do a count-in, right…?

     Cast: Tom Wainwright, James Stenhouse, Simon Holmes, Fionn Gill

all my dreams on vhs

short film | 13 mins   James never misses his dreams – he records them straight to VHS using Dreamspoon wireless technology. But when a work colleague, Erica, stops by after work, she finds something surprising amongst the titles. Curiosity gets the better of her and the evening takes an unexpected turn… Starring Gugu Mbatha… Read more »

The bells of Vyšehrad church explode and become as a cloud over Prague

headphone piece | 10mins Written and produced by Timothy X Atack | Directed by Tanuja Amarasuriya Once, we made a field recording of the strange music-box church bells that ring out over the Prague suburb of Vyšehrad every hour.     Years later, we imagined a sonic picture of a magical event, where the church… Read more »

BUZZARD

performance written Timothy X Atack | directed by Tanuja Amarasuriya A comedy about modern people and how we deal with our unhappiness. Tom is a Birthday Buzzard. His job is to dress up in a large anthropomorphic Buzzard outfit and turn up on your doorstep, on your birthday. He then tramps into your home and… Read more »

The Dead Phone

performance |  30 mins written by Timothy X Atack | directed by Tanuja Amarasuriya A phone in a room deep underground allows a man to connect to a recently deceased friend. A conversation between the living (present on stage) and the deceased (at the other end of the line.) “Honest, strangely believable, touching…”  – Audience feedback… Read more »

The Freelance Magdalene

performance | 20mins written and performed by Timothy X Atack | directed by Tanuja Amarasuriya Two travelling companions become embroiled in a spectacular year-round passion play, performed deep in the heart of backwoods Russia. Drawn to the town of Ovaknorozh as part of their round-the-world tour of weird cultural sights, the two atheist friends find… Read more »

M32 is also a Galaxy

performance | 10mins written and performed by Timothy X Atack | directed by Tanuja Amarasuriya A bridge, a motorway, an encounter, a revelation – but not necessarily in that order. Quiet, still and a little embarrassed by its own poetry, this is a portrait of Bristol past, present and future – seen through a drunken… Read more »