Out of the Dark #1

The Hypchondriac Cut Down and Almeida Inside Out

The first ever Out of the Dark week included two simultaneous projects.

Participants discussing text during Out of the Dark 1

In the auditorium, six loyal Happy Mondays participants worked with Fin Kennedy and Rebecca Manson Jones to read, cut down and re-imagine Richard Bean’s version of Molière’s The Hypochondriac for an audience of eleven year olds. Their work enabled Fin and Rebecca to create SICK! – our play for eleven year olds in Islington.

Participants in Out of the Dark - the Hypochondria Cut Down

Participants in the Hypochondriac Cut Down - part of Out of the Dark 1

Read more about SICK! by clicking on the link in the left hand menu.

Meanwhile, the photographer Lara Platman and director Natalie Abrahami worked with a small group of young people on a brand new photography project documenting the unseen areas of the Almeida Theatre and imagining what might have taken place there in the past.

A girl in a long dress going up the Almeida's hidden spiral staircass

Participants posing in an Almeida's dressing room

A ghostly figure on the spiral staircase

A girl sitting at the top of the spiral staircase