"Our shows combine filmmaking with live theatre: intimate, immersive and imaginative one-shot films, but with the immediacy of theatre by being performed completely live to an online audience. Our aim was to create, to the best of our abilities on lockdown, a ‘live theatre’ experience, for those who, like us, were missing one.
As lockdown began being enforced, it became apparent that my UK tour of my one-man show ‘Dog/Actor’ (@dogactorshow) – which was due to tour from June-August, was not going to happen, and I was absolutely devastated. But – it is amazing what work can come out from that ‘rock bottom’ feeling, or when you are faced with limitations. I had a ‘eureka moment’ when I realised that Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ – a short story that I have loved since childhood – would make a perfect Facebook Live show. Not only is it written entirely in the first person and a popular story within the public domain, but the whole story takes place in one house, mostly in one room..."
