CURRENT PRODUCTION
Debuting 29th-31st October 2021
Secret BS6 location
TANK GRANNY & THE SPIDERKIN
Umbra Penumbra and Tank Granny collide to create a fantastical, spooky and immersive experience. With shadowy figures and amazing acrobatics, Tank Granny and her Spiderkins fight for the future of our planet.
Tank Granny has held her stronghold in her garden of unearthly delights for the last thirty years whilst the chaos of dystopia wages outside. On Halloween, she invites you to visit. Together she and the Spiderkin seek to protect and save humanity from the seemingly inevitable demise. We can do better, we must do better.
In collaboration with Tank Granny.
PREVIOUS PRODUCTIONS
TALES FROM THE COLD
Tales from the cold is a collection of three short stories exploring the consequences of our planets rapidly warming climate across its furthest flung corners.
Umbra Penumbra invites you to immerse yourself in a world of light and shade and to ponder what our future looks like in the wake of the greatest threat humanity has ever known.
In association with The Last Hurrah Theatre Company.
PAST DATES
June 2021 -
Widcombe Social Club, Bath
Digital Sparkfest
Debuted June 2020
REN AND THE THOUSAND YEAR SLEEP
Ren and the thousand year sleep is the story of a reindeer frozen in time, who wakes up to a very different world to the one he left behind. Humankind has burnt the forests, polluted the air and poisoned the seas, but they will soon be taught a lesson when they wake up much more than they bargained for.
"Such a powerful story"
PAST DATES
"Ren and the Thousand Year Sleep is a stunning watch with a moving message." - Sparkfest.
June 2020 - Digital Sparkfest
Debuted June 2021
SUKI AND THE ORANGE SEA
Far away in the frozen north lives Sayer, a young boy who likes nothing more than walking out to the edge of the sea-ice with his beloved sled-dog suki to watch the crashing sea. But one day Sayers’s world is thrown into chaos when Suki is swallowed by the oceans icy depths, only to emerge a very different dog to the one she was before.
In association with The Last Hurrah Theatre Company.
Debuted June 2021
SONAM AND THE ICE STUPAS
For the villagers of India’s arid Ladakh region, high up in the Himalayas, global warming is having a devastating effect. Glaciers that provide vital stores of water are receding at an alarming rate, plunging their livelihoods into uncertainty. It is up to the Buddhist monks of the region to apply the ancient knowledge of their ancestors and build gigantic stupas of ice, stretching up into the sky, to provide water, the most valuable of resources before it’s too late.