★★★★
The Scotsman, Fest, The List, A Younger Theatre, Broadway Baby, The Wee Review
’A beautifully hewn story about how we connect to the past, and how our lives are shaped by the no-longer living things we carry with us. The emotion creeps up on you, gently and without fanfare: the tricks, wit and japes of the initial theatrical frivolity dissolving into a granite-hard nub of sadness. A gem of a piece by Bucket Club’
Total Theatre
‘Bucket Club’s style mixes story theater and toy theater with both whimsy and rigor... scientific precision and obvious warmth.''
New York Times
FOSSILS
Vanessa’s life is science. Fact based, evidence led, no nonsense, no monsters. But when a photograph surfaces showing something in Loch Ness, she must embark on a very personal research project.
An extinct fish, a missing father and breath-taking live electronic sound in a new play by Bucket Club that played at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe. In 2017 it has played in New York for Brits Off Broadway and toured to the New Diorama Theatre, the Wardrobe Theatre and Bath Spa University.
Written and directed by Nel Crouch
Design: Rebecca Jane Wood
Dramaturg: Marietta Kirkbride
Sound and music: David Ridley
Lighting: Joe Price
Cast: Adam Farrell, Luke Murphy (2018 dates), David Ridley and Helen Vinten
Produced by Matt Lister for Bucket Club
Photos: Paul Blakemore
