When the pandemic stopped live events in their tracks, we started a company and wrote and designed a sold-out live show to COVID-19 guidelines.
Forest Fables at Mottistone Manor is an immersive promenade piece of theatre, created by NAIADS. We partnered with the National Trust to bring live theatre to the Isle of Wight during Christmas 2020. The sold-out show was one of the only live shows to go ahead in the UK and saw bubbled groups embark on an immersive, theatrical journey through the sprawling rooms of an ancient manor house.
We partnered with video producers, Greengage Ventures, to create a theatrical film version of the show to enable those still sheltering to experience family theatre.
PARTNERS
National Trust & Greengage
CAST
Botanist: Ella Prendergast
Beetle: Emer Dineen
Forager: Ashaka Kolokoh
Fox: Jack Stigner
Nature: Livi Prendergast
TEAM
Director: Sophie Hunter
Producer: Clementine Seely
Designer: Samuel Wyer
Music: Rolfe Kent
Writer: Ella Prendergast
Creative Director: Livi Prendergast
SET DECORATORS
Constance Canavarro, Daniel Southwell, Lauren Sandercock, Luke Russell, Marianne Lang
SET CONSTRUCTION
Sean Turner
SHOW RUNNERS
Ben Walters, Helen Sceales, Sophie Whitehead & Theo Seely
CAPTURE
Photography © Rah Petherbridge / House of Kiyote