The Ballad

Originally staged as a co-production with The Lemon Tree in 2005, the piece began life as a story board of eight images. Through the devising process, in which the music was an integral part, the images became scenes and finally the show. In the re-staging, we are working with a new cast, which in itself has brought a different dimension to the story.

Made and lost her

Bones like water

My ghost wants her

Life blood daughter

Know I know you

Will love and show her

By this leaving

Your still born breathin'.

Kathryn Sawers

Director   Jonothan Campbell

Composer/Pianist   Kathryn Sawers

Choreographer/Rehearsal Director   Kally Lloyd-Jones

Performers   Saul Garcia & Tara Hodgson

Lighting Designer   Simon Gane

Aerial Designer   Bruce Luckhurst

Stage Manager   Emma Tennent

Publicist   Wendy Niblock

Poster Design   Brian Hartley, Stillmotion

thanks to

Leo Kay and Chantal Daily, Iain Campbell and Karen Mitchell, Alan Ross, Simon Owen, David Lloyd-Jones, ChloeDear. April Pressley and Sandy Noble, Rita Hunter, Alpha Munro, Brian Angus. Sandy Maxwell NEAT, Spinal Chord Projects, Scottish Opera, John McGeoch and Arts in Motion. And a very special thankyou to Kally Lloyd-Jones.