The Trapped Doe

"The Trapped Doe" ran at Etcetera Theatre, Camden in 2024.

The show was a solo performance of magical nature stories told in spoken word and prose.

I made a film backdrop and static puppets to support this performance.I was especially lucky to be filming at Lulworth Cove after a storm and the flm included some great footage of waves pouring through the stone arch.

"Possessing characteristics of an audio-visual installation in an art gallery or museum, the photographic vignettes that the audience are introduced to give a flavour of the natural world that inspired the show and are shown in conjunction with Phillips’s ‘spoken word’ delivery.

The eponymous story opens the show (and probably my favourite of the evening). It is often said ‘the Devil is in details’, but in the case of this segment, it really is the nuanced attention to detail that fires the imagination and immerses the audience in the events. While the story, as you might guess, contains a narrative about a trapped doe, what the story really conveys is Man’s kinship with animals, with an unspoken understanding between them." (Breaking The Fourth Wall)

Media: film, photography and static puppets.