Theatre Re's Bluebelle - Trailer 2023

'Theatrical sorcery, searing music, startling visual tableaux, grace and passion - I hope this fairy tale has many many bookings all over the world’. Marina Warner
Opening in an empty theatre with just a ‘ghost light’ on stage - the lamp that burns when a theatre is ‘dark’ - the ghosts of former actors emerge. They are ready to play. As they transform into the characters of the story they will be retelling, the magic of theatre begins.
Long ago and far away a King and Queen were placed under a spell. Fertility was disrupted. They called the Bluebell Fairy, but magic comes at a cost and woe betide those who do not keep their promises.
Weaving together plots and characters from ancient folktales, Bluebelle is about our never-ending need to believe in the extra-ordinary of Once Upon a Time.
'A magical, mesmerising tale... Bluebelle is an innovative masterpiece.’ West End Best Friends
'Big on atmosphere...The stagecraft is a delight... And the physical-theatre - grotesque witchery, swirling magicians, questing gallops, lonely wanderings - is the stuff of good storytelling'. Springback Magazine
Creative Team:
Conceived & Directed - Guillaume Pigé
Devised by the Company
The Queen - Claudi Marciano
The King - Marshall Stay
The Evil Witch & Bluebelle - Giulia de Fabbro
The Bluebell Fairy - Ramon Ayres
Musicians - Alex Judd & Henry Webster
Lighting Designer - Dr Katherine Graham
Costume Designer - Emma Tompkins
Collaborative set and props design - Emma Tompkins, Josephine Tremelling, Guillaume Pigé and Benjamin Adams
Costume Maker - Rosie Whiting, Jessie McKenzie
Production & Stage Manager - Josephine Tremelling & Peter Rickards
Dramaturg - A.C. Smith
Animal Transformation - Gabrielle Moleta
Philosopher - Dr Graeme A. Forbes
Visual Vernacular - Zoë McWhinney
External Adviser - Nola Rae MBE and Jonny Cotsen
Devisers - Eygló Belafonte, Claudia Marciano, Guillaume Pigé, Andres Velasquez, Charles Sandford, Ramon Ayres, Giulia del Fabbro, Henry Webster, Alex Judd, Zoë McWhinney, Emma Tompkins, Dr Katherine Graham, Josephine Tremelling, Marshall Stay.
Funded by National Lottery through Arts Council England
Co-commissioned by the London International Mime Festival and The Point Eastleigh
Supported by Shoreditch Town Hall and University of Kent