Trench
Pleasance Theatre

Written and performed by Philippa Mannion with Matthew Coulton
Director - Isabel Sharman
Stage Manager: Lauren Cameron
with production support from Katherine Nesbitt

Production Photographs by Sasha Mani

A new play about the seismic shifts in relationships, about land falling into the sea, about the gulfs between people, about continents drifting apart.

Philippa is obsessed with rivers – how they are formed and how they meander through the landscape. The Earth is constantly evolving under her feet, but she is stuck. Stuck in a relationship she knows she needs to leave. In her bedroom late at night, Philippa revisits the devastation of two people who should not be together.

A show which blends geography and storytelling to give you an insight into heartache, landscape evolution and natural disaster. With a design involving sand, movement and poetry, the show is an uncompromising study of human relationships with their environment and each other.

Trench is part of, Litmus Fest, an annual research and development festival that offers 6 carefully selected theatre companies; 2 weeks of development space, 2 technical play days followed by 2 public performances of 30-60 mins work-in-progress in our London venue.