Our Goal

We're a very small project to project funded theatre company with big ambitions. Our new show has been very well received in the development phase and has been invited to be part of the British Council Showcase at Edinburgh Fringe 2013. It's a fantastic opportunity as there'll be 300 or so international promoters on top of the national venue directors who'll be coming with an interest to booking new work.

The snag is Edinburgh is notoriously expensive to be a part of. We're not looking to pay ourselves. Our small, skilled and dedicated team of 4 have agreed to work for expenses only as it's too good an opportunity to miss.

All we're looking for is a small addition to the funds we've already raised to cover venue/fringe/accommodation/travel/subsistence costs.

What is For Their Own Good?

Below is a description of the show including some of the reasons why our venue in Edinburgh is so perfect for our show.

Can examining the way we kill animals tell us anything about how we deal with our own demise?

Combining documentary material from veterinary surgeries, farms, abattoirs, hospitals and homes with beautiful puppetry and new writing this show tells a moving and darkly comic tale about the only certainty in life. Death, how it’s become removed from us as a process, how maybe we should reclaim it.

A work intended for both black box studio theatres and site sensitive venues, the show deals with difficult, topical issues with a lightness of touch. It is funny, visually impressive and aims to be moving without being prescriptive.

With unflinching honesty and an eerily detached workmanship, two knackermen investigate the pitfalls of being high up the evolutionary chain. While dispatching the sick, lame or just plain old their own mortality is suddenly and sharply brought into focus.

While the piece is created for theatres, the company welcome the opportunity to site it in non conventional spaces. The Summerhall’s Demonstration Room presents a perfect example of this. Being located in a former veterinary college, it is the lecture theatre where students would learn how to euthanise horses.

A BITESIZE COMMISSION SUPPORTED BY MAC BIRMINGHAM, WARWICK ARTS CENTRE, BRISTOL FERMENT, CHINA PLATE THEATRE AND THE ARTS COUNCIL OF ENGLAND