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We Do, We Undo, We Redo


Director Maisie Newman
Designer Emily Leonard
Assistant Director + Composer Nell O'Hara
Stage Manager Elinor Lower


Hauser and Wirth, Somerset


A collaboration between Hauser and Wirth and The Bristol Old Vic Young Company.

We Do, We Undo, We Redo was a promenade performance at Hauser & Wirth Somerset in 2019 that responded to the exhibition Unconscious Landscape: Works from the Ursula Hauser Collection. The experimental play was developed over the course of two weeks during the Bristol Old Vic Youth Theatre Summer School by a group of young people aged 11 - 16 years old.

Led by director and choreographer Maisie Newman, the students explored themes of identity, gender and the work of Louise Bourgeois resulting in a unique showcase that incorporated colourful costumes, props, spoken word, music and dance.

Since opening in 2015, Hauser & Wirth Somerset has run the annual theatre summer school in partnership with Bristol Old Vic Theatre, as part of the education programme.
Three young people stand in a field of wildflowers wearing balaclavas fashioned from knitted jumpers. Behind them, a young girl speaks into a microphone. Four young girls stand beneath a spindly sculpture of an enormous spider (the artwork 'Mamam' by Louise Borgeois'). One of them fingerknits an enormous web from white wool, the others sing. Two young people in balaclavas face away from the camera with one arm raised. They face a garden of wildflowers.

© elinor lower