THE DEATH OF SMALL THINGS

Written and performed by Ruby Richardson
Directed by Sophia Golan                     

‘It’s the shoebox. That tiny, fucking, shoebox. It just looks…so…shit. There is a life inside that shoebox. A tiny life. And it’s a shoebox from …Clarks.’

A dishevelled woman attempts to entertain the audience with a reenactment of a funeral, with help from some unlikely collaborators.

This is an exploration of motherhood, its expectations, and an attempt to answer the question: Can we grieve someone who isn’t technically human?

The Death of Small Things started its journey at The Cockpit's Theatre in the Pound scratch night and is now returning to continue its life as a full-length work-in-progress as part of The Cockpit's Theatre Maker programme.

Come and see this one-off daytime preview of the play, to support new work, provide feedback and engage in vital conversations about loss, love and the things we struggle to say out loud.

CREATIVE TEAM

Ruby Richardson is an actor, writer and theatre maker who trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (BA Acting) and has since been working in theatre, film, TV and radio as well as writing and devising her own work. She has worked frequently with the internationally renowned devised theatre company Vanishing Point, touring their production of Interiors around the world, she was part of the creative team of the devised show SARAH which featured at Camden People's Theatre's Sprint Festival and as a writer her short film Nobody's Darling toured the film festival circuit (incl: LSFF, London Independent Film Festival, London Film Week, Little Wing), and was nominated three times for Best Screenplay. Credits include - TV: Miss Austen (BBC), The Crown (Netflix) Theatre: I Exist, I Exist, I Exist (Theatre 503), Key Words (The Lyric Hammersmith), Gaslight (Perth Theatre), Wild Thing (Bunker Theatre), SHAME: A Double Bill (The Pleasance & Richmix), Arnika (The Bridewell Theatre), Girl Meets Boy (The Yard Theatre), Tiny Dynamite (The Etcetera Theatre), Three Sisters (The Pleasance). Radio: When Greeks Flew Kites (BBC Radio 4).

Sophia Golan is a theatre director, writer and actor, trained on the Theatre Directing MA at Royal Holloway under Katie Mitchell OBE. She has worked internationally, including assisting Mitchell at Hamburg Schauspielhaus on The House of Bernarda Alba and Oliver Frljić on Schlachten at the Maxim Gorki Theater. Her directing and writing credits include Melting (Old Red Lion Theatre) and The Elephant and I (Camden People's Theatre), alongside directing A Brief Play About Rage (The Cockpit - Fringe Theatre Award nominations), A Very Clownless Show (A Playhouse East) and Birthday Party (Tzavta Theatre). She has assisted on The Glass Menagerie (The Yard) and Christmas Day (Almeida Theatre) , and performed in Someone Like Me (Gesher Theatre) and Euphoria (Haifa Theatre)

Please kindly arrive 30 minutes before the start time as latecomers cannot be admitted.

Thursday 12 March - 3:00pm