Dark Land Light House

Theatre | 1 hour 45mins >> Incoming, deep travel >> Estimated 600 souls >> Estimated 600 souls lost in 81 minutes > > There is a Dark Land in the depths of space. Ships are drawn to it like moths to a flame, where they are consumed, destroyed. A lighthouse orbits the Dark Land. Teller… Read more »

Circadial

place-specific, live, improvised sound gig created and performed by Tanuja Amarasuriya & Timothy X Atack The sounds of this town’s streets, wildlife, nightlife, vehicles, venues, homes, musicians and offices are looped, sieved, filtered, warped and stretched to make new, beautiful and perturbing music. Circadial is about the rhythms and polyphony of a place; the way that sound can… Read more »

The Bullet And The Bass Trombone

Theatre  |  1 hour 45mins words & music by Timothy X Atack  |  directed by Tanuja Amarasuriya There’s a concert orchestra, trapped in a city during a military coup. As violence erupts, with pitched battles breaking out around them, the orchestra becomes separated – lost – hoping and trying to find their way back to each… Read more »

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 »