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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Sarah-Louise Young
Sarah-Louise is an actor, writer, director, producer and cabaret performer. She’s appeared in the West End with Julie Madly Deeply, La Soirée, Fascinating Aida and Olivier Award winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical. One half of comedy partnership Roulston & Young, she has performed all over the world including Off Broadway and at the prestigious Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Alongside ‘The Silent Treatment’ she is currently presenting her 2019 Edinburgh smash hit ‘An Evening Without Kate Bush’ at the Edinburgh Fringe alongside ‘The Silent Treatment’. Recent directing credits include ‘Jarman’ (playing at King’s Head London throughout August), ‘Looking For Me Friend: The Music Of Victoria Wood’ (Edinburgh Fringe 2022) and ‘The Bobby Kennedy Experience’ (touring this Autumn). She will be appearing in the title role of ‘Alma’ with Théâtre de Namur in Belgium in a bilingual production in 2023.
Sioned Jones
Sioned is a seasoned theatre-maker, though a more recently emerging director. This is her seventh show at the Fringe. She's performed in five shows at the National Theatre: Never So Good, Oedipus, All's Well That Ends Well, Women Beware Women & Mike Bartlett's 13 and six shows in the West End: Tolstoy, Glorious, The Letter, Shadowlands, Shakespeare in Love and A Woman of No Importance.
She has co-devised and written numerous projects including 5 shows for the character Madame Charlotte-Ann Arcati and Expectations at Oval House. She has composed music for: Peacock Blue - Tell me what we have not seen, Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar, Motherhood - Unspeakable Unspoken. Sioned's directing includes: Cocktail Conversation and Lie Back in Anger at the Union Theatre, Julia Streets' Basket (Ed Fringe 2006), and The Juror, a short film she wrote which was selected for ASFF2015. This year, she's directed Diff'rent Times, (a new play by Alex Cooke at Greenwich Theatre Studio) and a Bossa-Nova version of The Tempest with eight actor-musicians for Shakespeare in the Squares (which sold out - playing to over 4,000 people).
Sioned is the Director of Arcati Productions Ltd and is also a keen painter and potter.
Christopher Ash
Christopher is Assistant Musical Director and a founding member of Showstopper! The Improvised Musical (Olivier Award Best Family & Entertainment 2016). He was an Artist of Choice (UK Musical Theatre 2016) for Wasted.
As composer/arranger: Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Trestle Theatre); Wasted (Southwark Playhouse); Wind In The Willows R&D (Metta Theatre); World In Union (Trinity Boys’ Choir); Tess Of The D’Urbervilles (Vocal And Instrumental Arrangements - Samuel French Ltd); Three Witch3s and The Night Queen (Belgrade Theatre/Hoopla Productions); Song Cycle For Soho (MMD/Soho Theatre); About A Girl (Independent Short Film Score, Dir. Alex Kirkland); Los Enigmas (Tangoduo); And Other Lonely People (Pippa Evans at Pleasance Theatres); The Little Mermaid and The Borrowers (MAC Birmingham)
As Musical Director: A Christmas Carol, Beauty And The Beast and Rapunzel (Full House Theatre/Luton Library Theatre); Tess Of The D’Urbervilles (New Wimbledon Studio Theatre/Fallen Angel Productions); Personality (Workshop and showcase - Crazy Coqs); Pictures Of Life (Quirkas Productions); Terms Of Dismemberment (Giles Ramsay); Butcher (New Writing Workshop, Birmingham Rep); All Woman (Pheasantry).
As Sound Designer: Society Of Strange (Theatre503, Rome, Oslo, Canada); Not A Game For Boys (King’s Head Theatre); Silence, The Misanthrope, Doña Rosita (Birmingham School Of Acting/Old Joint Stock Theatre); Red Sky/Blue Sky (Bridge House Theatre); Kissing Sid James (New Red Lion/Jermyn Street Theatre/59e59 New York); Terror Season (Southwark Playhouse/Extempore Theatre).
THANKS
With thanks to Robert Benton and Sharon Burrell for their support and generosity in the making of this show.
‘What the mind forgets, the body remembers’.
This show premiered at Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe in 2022 and is now on tour. For dates please visit the DIARY page.
Written and Performed by Sarah-Louise Young Directed by (and with contributions from) Sioned Jones. Sound Design by Christopher Ash. Songs written by Sarah-Louise Young and Christopher Ash. Movement consultant Lucie Pankhurst.
“A singer loses her voice and embarks on an unexpected journey of self-revelation”
Based on a true story, this intimate, funny and uplifting new solo show combines storytelling, physical theatre and song to explore how the body remembers what the mind forgets.
Trigger Warning: this show includes references to sexual violence.
Photo credit Steve Ullathorne
Photo credit Steve Ullathorne
Sioned Jones and Sarah-Louise Young
Photo credit James Millar Photography
For all Press & Booking Enquiries please contact:
Sarah-Louise Young
sarah_louise_young@hotmail.com
+ 44 07970 042014