Midnight Movie

Eve Leigh’s plays include The Trick (Bush Theatre), Stone Face and Silent Planet (Finborough Theatre). Rachel Bagshaw’s recent work includes Fringe First award-winning The Shape of the Pain, a collaboration with Chris Thorpe. Directed by Rachel Bagshaw, the play explores what it is like to have a digital body, when your physical body is always glitching and letting you down. 

For this play, Nwando worked on the Creative team and created the sound design.

Review, The Guardian:

“ The play is designed for audiences who communicate using BSL. The stage is a dazzling, Miami Vice-themed bedroom, and Nadarajah and Penn each perform the entire script – Penn speaking aloud and Nadarajah dancing and speaking using BSL. The effect is compelling.

At various points, Penn plays the drums, to a soundtrack of distorted electronic sound effects and samples from Janelle Monáe’s song Make Me Feel. The actors eventually perform part of the song too.

Its attempts to unpack the pleasures and dangers of digital voyeurism and society’s social media obsession are unremarkable, but Midnight Movie succeeds in its ambitious attempt to appeal to underrepresented audiences.”