“tended with gossamer-like precision by Romanes, who makes a slow-burning ritual out of Sharp’s heartfelt text which, by embracing the life left behind, honours the dead with the most beautiful of tributes.”
The Scotsman Review
Mar 30 2016“…although this is a high-risk play – more great flight of lyricism than conventional drama – it makes a hugely fitting coda to Muriel Romanes’s 20 years at Stellar Quines,”
Edinburgh Guide Review
Mar 30 2016“The Air That Carries the Weight’ marks a very considerable achievement, creating a distinctive and thought-provoking piece where linearity and literalism would have utterly failed to do so.”
AllEdinburgh Theatre Review
Mar 30 2016“Cleverly framed and delicately staged on what could well be John and Jeanine Byrne’s most evocative and cleverly constructed set yet, there is an aching beauty to Stellar Quines’ latest production.”
TV Bomb Review
Mar 30 2016“stellar performances and the talent on display both on-stage and backstage shows just why this award-winning Scottish theatre company is so highly regarded.”
Broadway Baby review
Mar 30 2016“Isobel, played with emotional clarity by Melody Grove.”
Rebecca Sharp speaks to Janet Forsyth on BBC Radio Scotland
Mar 18 2016Janice Forsyth meets Rebecca Sharp, to speak about being the first ever Poet-Perfumer in residence at the StAnza Festival of poetry in St Andrews, and The Air that Carries the Weight.
Listen from 1hr 22 minutes for Rebecca.
Melody Grove nominated for Olivier Award
Mar 18 2016
Melody Grove, who plays Isobel in our up and coming production The Air that Carries the Weight has been nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a supporting role for Farinelli and the King by Claire van Kampen at Duke of York’s theatre.
We’re absolutely delighted for Melody who will join
Writer Rebecca Sharp talks to the Traverse about her play
Mar 17 2016
Writer Rebecca Sharp talks to Rosie Kellagher at the Traverse about being a playwright, a poet and a perfumer! She also talks about the process of taking an idea and then turning that into a poem or a script.
Composer Pippa Murphy shares sound for The Air that Carries the Weight
Mar 16 2016Rebecca Sharp’s new play The Air that Carries the Weight layers reality and fantasy through immersive writing, design, lighting and original sound by Pippa Murphy.
Pippa has shared two examples of the evocative sound used in the piece:
Corrina Hewat – Harp
Pippa Murphy – Piano
Sandra MacKay – Gaelic Voice
Pippa Murphy
Mar 16 2016
How would you describe your current job and what do you like best about it?
I’m a Composer, Sound Designer, arranger and lecturer. I work with many different people in many different art forms. I love the variety of projects I work on, and the diversity of the people I work
Discover more about the mystical landscape of Marion Campbell’s Argyll
Mar 07 2016Discover more about the landscape of Argyll in particular around the home of Marion Campbell – Kilberry Castle, in this article from online magazine The Hazel Tree.
One of The Air that Carries the Weight’s main characters Yvonne lived in a cottage on the estate and the spirituality of the area is
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