Writer/Director: Sally Richardson

For Situ8:

Performer/co-creators: Jacqui Claus, Lilly King and Simon Wood

Composer/performer: David Stewart

Costume: Rebecca Patterson

Lighting: Chris Donnolly

Set Design: Ish Marrington

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Director Sally Richardson responds to the emptiness and darkness that shrouded the theatre during the pandemic – she invites you to pull up a cushion in a cozy, intimate and kind space and the artists feed off of the energy of an audience – they outline their art in chalk and map out the lines of their muse in the air and with their instruments. It’s visually stunning and utterly memorable (Fourth wall Media)

In Muse director Sally Richardson adorns the basement with rickety cages, bric-a-brac,even old children’s toys (a teddy bear sits comfortingly on a faded deckchair) ..theatre is, at its heart, a musty, rather dated art form. Its joys and pleasures are akin to the curios and prompts to memory which one finds in childhood attics, basements, abandoned prop rooms and wicker touring baskets. Muse especially evokes this sense of theatre as a space of reverie and dream, of something about the past; something borrowed and something new, all at once (Seesaw Magazine)