Reeling & Writhing : Formel

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Co-Produced by Reeling & Writhing
and Platform, Glasgow.

Formel

by Tim Nunn

Director Katherine Morley
Sound by Kenny MacLeod
Marketing by Ruth Marsh

A young woman has grown up with Golden Eagles soaring above the Scottish hills of her home. When one of the eagles is killed she becomes blinded by rage and launches retribution that leads to tragedy.
'Formel' traces the complex tensions around the eagles of Scotland through the passion and wonder felt for them by this young woman.
She has followed them in the skies above her since she was a child. She can’t remember the first time she saw the eagles. But her father remembers her toddler eyes scanning the sky and petulant outbursts as a teenager leading to sulks atop a high hill rather than the usual messy bedroom.
It is winter and she has secretly been shooting her father’s sheep to feed the eagles and keep them close to home. Recently she has found poisoned pieces of meat stuck on fence-posts. These are the secrets she keeps from the three men who love her: her father, a local game-keeper and a ranger who protects the eagles.
The story is told in the skies, hills, homes, land-rovers and small boats of characters whose passions and love for each other and for their environment is bursting.
When an eagle dies the tensions turn into conflict and tragedy.

Dates and Ticket Details TBA

Dates and Ticket Details TBA.

But to the point. Nature held on her hand
A formel eagle, of shape the gentilest
That ever she among her workes fand,
The most benign, and eke the goodliest;
In her was ev’ry virtue at its rest,
So farforth that Nature herself had bliss
To look on her, and oft her beak to kiss.

The Assembly of Fowls
Geoffrey Chaucer

STYLE
The play is going to make extensive use of field recordings to create a soundscape of locations and action. The audience will be taken into the wind, will hear the shriek of a dying eagle, the waves lapping around the boat and feel the force of an exploding shotgun.
This will ultimately be a touring production that can easily be placed into unconventional spaces, including village halls, art galleries, churches or schools, as well as studio spaces in theatres. The performance will require a complete black-out and some of the action will happen in darkness or with only limited lighting from hand-held torches, lanterns or digital projection.

PROMOTERS
There will be a limited number of public work-in-progress performances of 'Formel' in Spring 2011. Please let us know if you would like tickets.
An information document can be downloaded here.

'Formel' is funded by the Scottish Arts Council Drama New Work fund.