performance & installations AVAILABLE TO BOOK NOW ;  temple of the tattie - up north - legs11
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TEMPLE OF THE TATTIE

A visual performance and installation, revealing one of this island's possible near futures - post brexit, post a-crop-alypse - in which Guardian's protect the last agricultural relic from happier times.


Audience testimonials - 2019 Greenman festival
"best cult I've ever joined!"
"absolutely brilliant!"
"I will never forget this moment"

This show can be booked for outdoor events running in 45minutes slots twice a day, or as an indoor short form piece for audience groups of 15 people at a time (for 15minutes).
access info : english spoken dialogue, wheelchair accessible.

Designer / Maker / performer : Emma Brierley
Coder / maker / Technician : Rory Mills
Audio design : Jess Raine
Costume maker : Emily Martinelli
Co devisors : Emma Brierley & Sleepdogs
film trailer : Teusch of Cairn Production
made with the support of : uz arts / suramedura / surge / creative scotland

past tour dates include; Dundee summer streets festival, surge festival, greenman festival.
upcoming dates; Manipulate festival feb 1st 2020

UP NORTH

A HANDMADE & IMMERSIVE AUDIO / VISUAL PERFORMANCE OF POEMS, ILLUSTRATIONS, SONG & SHADOW SPILLS EXPLORING LAND & SEA.
Audience testimonials ;
"made me nostalgic for a time i never knew and a place i've never been"
"GORGEOUS CRAFTWORK, INTRICATE, ENGAGING"
"A LITTLE LANTERN FOR THE DARK TIMES"
"TOTAL IMAGINATION IMMERSION!"

This show is a short form piece and can be booked through swallow the sea's caravan theatre (info@swallowthesea.com), where it sits 8 audience members at a time in their intimate venue.  it is also possible to present the show in an Alternative indoor space, provided full black out can be achieved.  Running time is 20minutes.  up to six performances per day.
Access info : English spoken dialogue. for their indoor shows the caravan has no limited mobility access.

CONCEPT, DESIGNer, MAKER, WRITER, PERFORMER : EMMA BRIERLEY 
UKELELE THEME : JEMIMA THEWES


this piece was self funded and has toured to pitlochry festival theatre, knockengorroch festival, drummhor midsummer, the scottish permaculture gathering and edinburgh fringe festival.

LEGS11

Have you ever been for a stroll and wondered how the land was before?

A highly visual show - part folk song, part toy theatre – with TABLE TOP & glove puppets, cranky's and transforming objects. 
Join Emma and the Magpie as the set unfurls and they journey from coastal clifftops to surreal urban sprawl in this light-hearted interactive puppet show.




"Her accomplished show legs11 is testament to her musical skill and deft ability with objects"
eve stebbing eastern daily press 2016

This is an outdoor show for family audiences of 5 years+ playing comfortably to an audience of up to sixty people. running time is 30minutes. up to 2 performances per day.  access info : english spoken dialogue.
for bookings please contact emma@temporarycommons.com

CONCEPT, VISUAL DESIGN, MAKER, PERFORMER : EMMA BRIERLEY
DIRECTION : FLICK FERDINANDO
MUSICAL DIRECTION : ALI HOUIELLEBECQ

MADE WITH SUPPORT FROM : NORWICH PUPPET THEATRE & ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND
past tour dates include; norwich puppet theatre, out there festival, just so festival, the lost carnival & puppet animation festival.