Bucket Club’s new play Fossils, about a female scientist and the Loch Ness Monster with live electronic sound design and music arrives in London at the New Diorama Theatre from Tuesday 19th September to Saturday 30th September as part of a national tour.
Fossils is a play about a young woman searching for her missing father. It’s about evolutionary biology and personal mythology. It’s about an ancient sea dinosaur that may or may not be living in a lake in the Scottish Highlands.
Vanessa is a young, successful research scientist working in evolutionary biology. When growing up, her dad was obsessed with proving the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. He went missing in the Highlands when she was a teenager. When a new photograph surfaces showing something in the Loch, Vanessa is forced to embark on a very personal research project.
Fossils is told with three performers, plastic dinosaurs, multiple instruments and twenty fish tanks. The performers create live sound design and music by recording sound and manipulating it electronically and with a specially programmed games console to build haunting soundscapes and original songs.
Bucket Club are touring Fossils following a sell-out run at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe and a transfer to the Brits Off Broadway Festival at 59E59 Theaters in New York City.
The creative team is completed by Adam Farrell (Dominic), Luke Murphy (Myles), Helen Vinten (Vanessa), Matt Lister (producer), Rebecca Jane Wood (design), Joe Price (lighting), David Ridley (composition and sound design) and Marietta Kirkbride (dramaturgy).
