Peak Stuff
UK tour, 2024
"I like having things. I like having lots of things. It reminds me that I'm... Y'know? A person."
Alice is done with fast fashion.
Ben can't stop buying trainers.
And Charlie just wants to sell out...one organ at a time.
In an age of retail therapy, climate crisis and click and collect - how does our 'stuff' define us? And have we reached peak stuff?
Award-winning theatre company, ThickSkin, have teamed up with the writing talents of Billie Collins (Too Much World at Once and BBC's Malory Towers) to produce one of the most visually thrilling and inventive shows you will see this year.
Using live drumming and spectacular video design, this is a timely show for anyone who has ever made an ill-fated impulsive purchase! Directed by ThickSkin’s Neil Bettles (How Not To Drown, Frantic Assembly’s The Unreturning and Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks), Peak Stuff is a tale for modern times.
Matthew Churcher
Meg Lewis
Playwright: Billie Collins
Director/Co-Composer: Neil Bettles
Co-Composer: Matthew Churcher
Designer: Neil Bettles
Lighting Designer: Charly Dunford
Video Designer: TripleDotMakers
Associate Director: Hetty Hodgson
Administrator: Abi Beaven
Sound Associate: Hannah Bracegirdle
Lighting & Video Engineer: Sam Marshall
Content Creator: Serden Salih
Executive Producer: Laura Mallows
General Manager: George Soave
Production Manager: Tom Robbins
Touring Production Manager: Helen Morris
Photos & BTS
Reviews
★★★★★
'a serious and impressive play'
The Guardian
★★★★
'Collins writes beautifully in rhythms picked up, underscored and implied by Matthew Churcher, centre stage
and bringing tremendous dynamic range to the performance'
The Scotsman
★★★★
'backed by a magnificent continuous score by Neil Bettles and Matthew Churcher,
performed live on drums by Churcher himself, and greeted with roars of applause, when both remarkable performers
finally step up to take their bows.'
The Scotsman
★★★★★
'A belter of a play, mesmeric, poetic, timely piece.'
North West End UK
★★★★
'The complex rhythms conjured from Churcher's drum kit, perched high and behind Lewis,
both drive and respond to the drama.'
The QR
★★★★★
'I've had the privilege of expieriencing many great theatrical productions,
this one has left me almost speechless.'
Theatre South East