The Writing of Stones

Emma Wagstaff and Dominic Weatherby

The Writing of Stones is a guided visit to the museum of your imagination, a hijacked meditation, a psychedelic school trip, a reverie on the reality-altering nature of attention, the limits of language, and humanity’s place in the natural world.

A collage of text, music, and movement inspired by the writings of Roger Caillois, this show is a dreamy train ride into the darkest depths of consciousness. 

Expect phantasmagoria, hot-collared surrealists, science, illuminations, slow dancing, aesthetic philosophy, Mexican jumping beans, and lots and lots of stones.

Creation and performance: Juliana de Aragão, John Harper, Emma Wagstaff, and Dominic Weatherby
Direction: Emma Wagstaff and Dominic Weatherby
Text: Dominic Weatherby
Design: Emma Wagstaff

An Emballage production supported by Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich Theatre, Menagerie Theatre Company, Footsbarn Travelling Theatre, Karen Christopher & CJ Mitchell, our Kickstarter backers, and a Hypothesis retreat from curious directive.

Dates 

London, Camden People's Theatre, 21.11.24-22.11.24

Cambridge, Cambridge Junction, 21.7.24

Norwich, Norwich Theatre Stage Two (R&D Sharing), 25.2.24

Response

'Mesmeric musings on memory and materiality, optics and apocalypse.'

Audience Member

'The message came across searingly clearly, and in its own way was far more penetrating than anything coming from Greenpeace or Friends of the Earth.'

Audience Member

Images


Videos

Production trailer for The Writing of Stones at Camden People's Theatre, Voila! Festival, November 2024.

Concept trailer for The Writing of Stones, May 2024.

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