The Blue Elephant
2022
'Every day I wake up and for half a second I can half forget that half my heart is missing'
Alex, Billie and Charles live in the same house but they never see each other. Charles’ wife of 50 years has passed away. Billie is reeling from heartbreak. Alex’s dad recently took his own life, and now he’s facing his own depression.
Gaia Fay Lambert’s moving debut play is a series of interweaving monologues. It blends poetry with theatre as its three characters attempt to articulate universal experiences of loneliness, loss and longing. The Blue House looks to provide the audience with hope, healing and solidarity after some of the most turbulent and lonely years in living memory.
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Performance Ensemble | Sound Design (finalist) | Direction
'An extraordinary debut'
- There Ought to be Clowns
Alex: Gbenga Jempeji
Billie: Meg Lewis
Charles: Séamus Newham
Writer: Gaia Fay Lambert
Director: Myles O'Gorman
Designer: Hazel Low
Sound Designer: Jamie Lu
Lighting Designer: Kevin Murphy
Stage Manager: Amy Hales
Producer: Jake Curran-Pipe
Design Assistant: Gabe Gilmour
Marketing Assistant: Millie Buckingham
Videographer: Louis Norris
'Not just your average piece of theatre, The Blue House pushes poetic boundaries'
- Fairy Powered Productions
- The Audience Club
Production Photos: Ted Baxter