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dance/hyena/skeleton


Directors Elinor Lower & Krista Matthews

Producer Laura Knight

Stage Manager Kay Hudson

Lighting Technican & Sound Operator Merlyn Salter-Ling


Bath Theatre Academy, The Egg Theatre


Using a selection of Leonora Carrington’s short stories as inspiration for new devised pieces, Bath Theatre Academy’s first year students bring their work to a live audience.  Join them for a showcase of bold new work unlike anything you’ve seen before; an eclectic evening of the strange and the spooky, the joyous and the kooky…

Photography by Chelsey Cliff

A young person in a hyena mask crouches onstage holding a large sketchbook on which is written "WHAT IS HAPPENING?"

A large group of young people sit in the audience of a theatre, smiling at the camera. Performers on stage. A group of young people in white shirts advance on a young man wearing a suit and holding a microphone. A young black man stands onstage, looking pensively into the distance. Performers on stage. A group of young people attack a young man in a suit. He cries out. Performers on stage. A group of young people throw red confetti into the air. A young person wearing a mask adorned with beads and peacock feathers raps into a microphone onstage. A young person in a hyena mask faces off against another performer in a mask adorned with peacock feathers holding a red cloth (as if tempting a bull) A young person in a hyena mask holds up a sketchbook on which is written HA HA HA Two performers drag a third offstage. The third wears a panicked expression and holds up a sketchbook on which is written "NOOO" A group of young women/femmes dance onstage. In front of them, another yells triumphantly into a microphone, her arm in the air. A young woman in dark clothing pours salt in a line across the front of the stage. A group of young people huddle at the back of the stage. At the front of the stage, a young man stands behind a line of salt. Two young men stand under dramatic lighting. One young man scrolls on his phone. Two young men in hoodies hold hands. Two young men sit on the knees of two others (as if on chairs). One of the young man has his arm around the other (as if on a date). A young man in a vibrant tie dye jumper sits moddily on the front of the stage while a group of others dance enthusiastically behind him. Two young women laugh under bright pink lights. A young man performs a handstand split mid-way through a dance routine. Two young people dance balletically in sync, an arm and leg extended each.

© elinor lower