A Tale Of Two Chippies

For Little Earthquake
Commissioned by Creative Black Country

An attempt to carve out a whole new sub-genre, the souvlaki Western. A saga of bitter rivalry between Greek and Turkish chip shop owners, exacerbated by a Bulgarian migrant playing both sides off against each other.

Written and directed by Philip Holyman.

Yamlet

For Little Earthquake

The media thought it was an April Fool, but this project was absolutely no joke — a meditation on class and culture which translated sections of Hamlet into Black Country dialect before we filmed them on the mean streets of Cradley Heath, resulting in a web series which has received over 250,000 views.

Written and directed by Philip Holyman (with help from William Shakespeare)

Even The Ghost Is Lying

For Little Earthquake
Commissioned by Birmingham Literature Festival

A promenade piece around the giant book rotunda of the Library of Birmingham. Guided by unreliable narrators, audiences were split into groups and led on a winding journey up and down travelators and along normally inaccessible balconies, perfect for telling a story of menace, marriage and murder.

Written and directed by Philip Holyman. Based on Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s stories which inspired Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashōmon.

Hit The Baby, Natasha!

For Little Earthquake

A radical reimagining of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, told from Natasha's perspective and populated with an ensemble of puppet and human actors.

Written and directed by Philip Holyman.

Spines Will Tingle

For Little Earthquake

An intimate evening of gentle chills and pleasing terrors from some acknowledged masters of the macabre.