About Little Bulb
Little Bulb started out at the University of Kent where its members, strung across different years, collaborated for the first time on Crocosmia, a devised piece exploring the memories (both joyous and tragic) of three precocious siblings through their parents record collection. The show premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2008, and went on to win Fringe First, Total Theatre and Arches Brick awards as well as touring extensively both home and abroad.
In 2009 we returned to Edinburgh as the resident company of the Forest Fringe performing Sporadical: the epic folk opera and in 2010 with Operation Greenfield which was awarded the Herald Angel. Operation Greenfield returned once more to the theme of growing up this time focusing on the lives of teenagers, rather than children, in a small fictional village. The piece was also a study of faith and friendship and our most ambitious exploration so far on the interplay between music and theatre. That same year we were commissioned by Farnham Maltings to create a new show specifically for village hall touring for which we made The Marvellous and Unlikely Fete of Little Upper Downing: a raucous folk extravaganza which has since toured to village halls all over England. For the 2011 Fringe music became the entire focus as we presented Goose Party an experimental free set of bizarre compositions and genre fusions performed by our alter ego band.
We are currently working on our first adaptation, an epic reworking of the Orpheus & Eurydice myth inspired by the music of Django Reinhardt, which is being developed and produced by the Battersea Arts Centre, and which we hope to premier in 2013.
Since forming in 2008 Little Bulb Theatre have gone on to create a diverse and stylistically vibrant body of work encompassing larger scale theatre pieces, small intimate experiments in dimly lit caverns and much else in between. We are passionate about fusing more traditional theatrical forms such as character acting and dramatic structure with elements of devised visual and musical performance thereby creating fresh, live experiences that aspire to touch, startle and entertain.
Little Bulb Theatre are produced by Farnham Maltings.
Who we are
Alexander Scott - Artistic Director
Like all the bulbs Alex graduated from the University of Kent with a degree in Contemporary Performance Practice. He has since gone on to teach there (on the use of objects in performance) and is also involved in a project investigating performance as an intervention technique for autistic children. He co-directed BAC's Youth Theatre project two terms running and has facilitated workshops with little bulb on the devising process. He is occasionally known to act (sometimes even going so far as to grow a beard for a part) and occasionally to play instruments (sometimes even learning the right chords) but tends to direct when he can.
Clare Beresford
Clare likes nothing more than a good chinwag and so tends deal with most of the correspondences and communications within the company. Mainly though, she is a deviser and performer who divides her time off stage with her other life obsessions of puns, Stephen Fry and any fruit and fibre based cereal. Outside of Little Bulb, Clare also occasionally performs in a funk band within which she sings and hits things (mainly the drums or the dancefloor) and is delighted to do the same in the Little Bulb Band.
Shamira Turner
Shamira performs, devises and designs within Little Bulb as well as being the company treasurer. Often she can be found making illustrations, sound & video editing, sewing stuff, composing text, harmonies or emails, occasionally freelance directing, and generally listening to the glory that is Sufjan Stevens. The littlest of the bulbs, and most recent to graduate, she grew up all over England and in France and now lives out of a small pile of bags.
Dominic Conway
For the company Dominic does performing, composing, writing, thinking, sometimes emailing, the odd music lesson, some publicity and general administration jobs, workshop leading, energetic debating as well as casual chatting. He studied Theatre at the University of Kent and has had a hodge-podge casual musical education in London, Cuba and Chilham which mostly involved playing a lot of guitar.
Eugenie Pastor - Associate Artist
Eugenie is an associate artist at Little Bulb. In addition to performing and transcribing such things as complex flute solos and wild French lyrics, she is currently undertaking a PhD at Royal Holloway in London. It's said that she arrived in London two years ago, without a bank card, but with a wedding dress stuffed into her backpack. This wedding dress has since made its way into Little Bulb's finest cabaret experiments, as has Eugenie herself.
Like all the bulbs Alex graduated from the University of Kent with a degree in Contemporary Performance Practice. He has since gone on to teach there (on the use of objects in performance) and is also involved in a project investigating performance as an intervention technique for autistic children. He co-directed BAC's Youth Theatre project two terms running and has facilitated workshops with little bulb on the devising process. He is occasionally known to act (sometimes even going so far as to grow a beard for a part) and occasionally to play instruments (sometimes even learning the right chords) but tends to direct when he can.
Clare Beresford
Clare likes nothing more than a good chinwag and so tends deal with most of the correspondences and communications within the company. Mainly though, she is a deviser and performer who divides her time off stage with her other life obsessions of puns, Stephen Fry and any fruit and fibre based cereal. Outside of Little Bulb, Clare also occasionally performs in a funk band within which she sings and hits things (mainly the drums or the dancefloor) and is delighted to do the same in the Little Bulb Band.
Shamira Turner
Shamira performs, devises and designs within Little Bulb as well as being the company treasurer. Often she can be found making illustrations, sound & video editing, sewing stuff, composing text, harmonies or emails, occasionally freelance directing, and generally listening to the glory that is Sufjan Stevens. The littlest of the bulbs, and most recent to graduate, she grew up all over England and in France and now lives out of a small pile of bags.
Dominic Conway
For the company Dominic does performing, composing, writing, thinking, sometimes emailing, the odd music lesson, some publicity and general administration jobs, workshop leading, energetic debating as well as casual chatting. He studied Theatre at the University of Kent and has had a hodge-podge casual musical education in London, Cuba and Chilham which mostly involved playing a lot of guitar.
Eugenie Pastor - Associate Artist
Eugenie is an associate artist at Little Bulb. In addition to performing and transcribing such things as complex flute solos and wild French lyrics, she is currently undertaking a PhD at Royal Holloway in London. It's said that she arrived in London two years ago, without a bank card, but with a wedding dress stuffed into her backpack. This wedding dress has since made its way into Little Bulb's finest cabaret experiments, as has Eugenie herself.
