Me and My Sister Tell Each Other Everything
by Uther Dean
When her sister didn’t let her help build the dollhouse, Murph Willcott was hurt, she just didn’t know it yet. She watched her sister as she got to construct and control a whole universe of her own. But everything looks whole from far away.
Jos and Murph are sisters. Jos and Murph don’t speak anymore. But Murph has done something only Jos will understand. An intricately woven story with songs featuring dollhouses, deodorants and the damage we carry.
Me and My Sister Tell Each Other Everything was a Tron Theatre Comapany show which I designed video for. Working on a tight budget, we used wireless cameras to bring the audience inside Jenny Booth’s intricate miniature dollshouse. These live images were mixed with stylised static setpieces and authentic home videos from the performers’ childhoods to create a design that was at once fuzzily nostalgic and bleakly distant.
By Uther Dean. Songs by Oliver Devlin and Uther Dean
With EILIDH LOAN as Murph and ANNA RUSSELL-MARTIN as Jos
Directed by KOLBRÚN BJÖRT SIGFÚSDÓTTIR
Set and Costume Design by JENNY BOOTH
Lighting Design by MICHAELLA FEE
Sound Design by CALUM PATERSON
Video Design by ROB JONES
Stage Manager LINSEY JOHNSTONE
Set Construction PRETTY SCENIC
BSL Interpreter YVONNE STRAIN
All photography is (c) Eoin Carey
“a studio production played with the precision of a classical composition”
★★★★
- Mark Fisher, The Guardian
“Everything about the staging rings of quality - the technical team excel”
★★★★
- David Pollock, The Scotsman
“the stunning quality of Kolbrun Bjort Sigfusdottir’s production is undeniable”
★★★★
- Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman
“You’ll feel uplifted and frustrated and will want to come back to experience it all over again.”
★★★★★
- Fraser MacDonald, Braw Theatre
