scene from the theatre production Ocean Of Storms
Ocean of Storms:
Credits and Programme Note


When we started, Ocean of Storms named the second lunar landing site. Now it is that region electronic voices pass through to and from their satellites; it is the distance a hand must travel to touch a face; it is the fluid in an eye watching from afar.

Everything has grown at once more simple and more complicated since we left. Being an astronaut is now maybe just about being away and hearing the voice of home in your ear, and yet now these astronauts are not astronauts, nor are they angels, Gods or spies. This is not quite a play, poem, exorcism or experiment. We cannot say exactly what anything is anymore, instead we seek to describe a world by orbiting round it.


Devised and Performed by: Sarah Dawson & Amanda Hadingue
With Direction and Texts by: James Yarker
Soundtrack: 'Webster West Ink'
Lighting and Sound: Paul Arvidson
Set Design and Construction: Stan's Cafe and Simon Attwood
Properties: Phil Coy and Helen Kelly
Photography: Mark Taylor
Publicity Design: Simon Ford
Administration: Stan's Cafe and Mick Yates

Ocean of Storms was supported financially by:
Arts Council of England, West Midlands Arts, Birmingham City Council
Barclays Bank through the Barclays New Stages Award