Death and the Carpenter
Parrot Theatre performs Sonia’s play Death and the Carpenter, with a new tour scheduled for summer 2025.
Experience a shiver of delight as the horror seeps in…
A deserted clearing in the woods. An unsuspecting passerby. A fatal encounter.
Death plays the violin, and today is his practice day. Death’s latest composition will surprise and horrify any who hear it. Featuring macabre puppetry and an eerie live soundscape, Death and the Carpenter is a new gothic folk tale for grown-ups, written by Sonia Overall.
Poor Old Horse
Poor Old Horse is a short film commissioned for the research project ‘Celebrating the Kentish Hooden Horse’ and the connected national exhibition, ‘Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse’, with support from Arts Council England, National Lottery for heritage and Canterbury Christ Church University. It was shortlisted for the Masarto Award for Walking Art, 2023.
The piece explores the relationship of the Hoodening custom to the landscape of its origin through walking and embodied experience, spoken word, and the re-visioning of archival material and traditional music.
It was filmed on location in East Kent in January 2023 and screened in the exhibition from February – June 2023.