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Peak Stuff

Director

Neil Bettles

Company

ThickSkin

Role

Musician / Co-Composer

Type

Theatre

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about the show. 
"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.


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'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


Reviews
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'a serious and impressive play'
The Guardian

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'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


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'A belter of a play, mesmeric, poetic, timely piece.'
North West End UK

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'The complex rhythms conjured from Churcher's drum kit, perched high and behind Lewis, both drive and respond to the drama.'
The QR

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'I've had the privilege of expieriencing many great theatrical productions, this one has left me almost speechless.'
Theatre South East
also with this company.

CAST

Meg Lewis
Matthew Churcher

CREATIVE

Playwright
Director/Co-Composer
Co-Composer
Designer
Lighting Designer
Video Designer
Associate Director:
Administrator
Sound Associate
Lighting & Video Engineer
Content Creator
Executive Producer
General Manager
Production Manager
Touring Production Manager
Billie Collins
Neil Bettles
Matthew Churcher
Neil Bettles
Charly Dunford
TripleDotMakers
Hetty Hodgson
Abi Beaven
Hannah Bracegirdle
Sam Marshall
Serden Salih
Laura Mallows
George Soave
Tom Robbins
Helen Morris

Trailer

Behind the scenes

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