SHATTERED PARADISE

APRIL 2025

Shattered Paradise is a visceral journey of repetition, disruption and transformation. A girl rotates around a cycle of four stations; a microphone, a keyboard, a couch and a guitar,  symbolic of exploring different emotional and existential modes whilst trying to function in the system that has been handed down. Through fragments of music and poetry, Shattered Paradise asks us to look at how cycles can both liberate and suffocate, and how disrupting our sounds, our words and our cycles can be survival and resistance.

Created and Performed by Gem Kinley

Composition by Tom MacFadyen 

Mentored by Pete Lannon, Bill Wright and Jo Ronan

Production Team

Production Manager: Jacqui Howard

SM on Book: Anne Peart

SM on Book: Lara Cassidy

SM on Book: Josh Hanover

ASM: Connor Boyd

ASM: Hamish Bell

ASM: Ross Mcllwaine

Lighting Designer: Benny Goodman

Production Electrician: Gun Lai

Lighting Technician: Emily Lumley

Lighting Technician: Cameron Peden

Lighting Technician: Sonny Wardrope

Head of Sound :Caro Sabino

Production Sound: Sam Addis

Engineer Sound Technician: Sal Quinlan

Sound Technician: Milla Rais Tamosinuas

Sound Technician: Isla Stokes

AV Installation: Andy Reid

With thanks to Julia Coulthard, Sophie Harwood, Devin Jamieson and Sean Jarvie for their help during the fit up as well as the AV department for their support and expertise.

Photos by Hope Connachan-Holmes

THE HING IS...

WIT ARE WE WAITIN FIR?