Sounding the Sky was an immersive audio story journey around some of the British Library's most spectacular and secret spaces. Audiences experienced an aerial sequence of stories linked by a theme of the sky, involving lying in a summer meadow, migrating with hummingbirds in a reading room with projected illustrations, preparing to skydive from a high balcony, and stepping out into a constellation on a roof terrace. You can find some photos on our Events page.

 

Time Travellers was commissioned by Durham University's Palace Green Library in response to their Time Machines exhibition. On a fourth dimensional journey around the exhibition and library spaces, audiences experienced stories including a musical version H.G. Wells's The Time Machine by the original manuscript, 'The Phoenix' by Ursula K. Le Guin in a research library-made-apocalyptic, and 'Other People' by Neil Gaiman with shadow puppetry. 

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Literally Fantastical was a sold-out short story journey created for the British Library, which took audiences around the building's secret spaces to experience stories on a theme of the fantastical, the fabulous and the fairy tale. We transformed a reading room into an enchanted forest with a singer and a dancer, a roof terrace into an audio installation, linked two distant balconies with silent disco headphones.

 

A Literary Bestiary was staged at Swiss Cottage Library, curated around a theme of curious creatures, and took the audience on a circular journey around the space for a selection of new stories, classic fables, and an interactive story involving edible books, combined with film, dance and illustration.

 

A Literary Coup was staged at Primrose Hill Community Library and curated around a theme of libraries and reading. It involved new commissions, classic and contemporary stories, dance, film, and a talking horse.

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Nothing matches live performance, but videos and photo collages of our past shows can be found on our Events page. Delve right in.

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