"Filament fuses original multi-part vocal music with devised physical performance.
We make work which tells stories, performed in both traditional and non traditional theatre spaces."

One or the Other

One or the Other

So, what a great few days at the Barbican Pit, experimenting with slapstick and a trio. A huge thank you to Adebayo Bolaji and Stuart King, without whom the custard pies and hitting with saucepan lids to the sound of a ‘doooiiiiinnnng’ wouldn’t have been possible. We’ll be working on...
New Trailer for Momo

New Trailer for Momo

Blind Crow have made us a rather gorgeous trailer for Momo, our new production coming in 2013. Click here to see the film and keep tuned in for more details. You can also follow us on Facebook or twitter …
Filament's Sound Cloud

Filament’s Sound Cloud

Filament’s Sound Cloud with some of the songs Osnat has composed for Momo is now there in CLOUDland for you to catch and listen to…not just Momo but also other songs from filament’s work. Do have a listen!
Momo Teaser

Momo Teaser

Blind Crow have made a teaser for our next show, Momo. You can watch the video by going to our vimeo page – do let us know what you think!
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Filament at Barbican Pit

Filament at Barbican Pit

At last, some news! Whilst the travails of sorting out a venue or venues for Momo continue, we are going to be working at the Barbican to develop a whole new idea through the Pit Lab at Barbican/Guildhall. We’ll start work at the end of April, and hope to have something ready to share at Tête...

MMD and MTN conference ‘Fuelling the Future’

It truly is conference season for the arts! Mercury Musical Developments and Music Theatre Network put together this event held at Soho Theatre today which sought to bring venues together with producers, writers, composers and even the odd director to ask essentially how can we continue to make new musical theatre in the UK? Are...

Ian at The Future Playground event, Manchester

WE  ARE ALL OF US CHILDREN Last thursday was ‘The Future Playground’ a conference organised by Fevered Sleep, a trailblazing company that makes beautiful work for children. The conference investigated just where we are with arts for children. Our lovely board member, Ian Jeanes went on our behalf and here’s what he thought:   I...
Film from Tête à Tête

Film from Tête à Tête

So Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival is over for another year. Here we have from left to right, Luisa Guerreiro, Sabina, Osnat, Stuart King and Adebayo Bolaji who made up our team this year. You can see what happened at the Riverside Studios by clicking on this link, scroll down to the film, click play...
Osnat on Resonance FM with Bill Bankes-Jones

Osnat on Resonance FM with Bill Bankes-Jones

Bill, wonderful AD of  Tête à Tête, took over a friday evening spot on Resonance FM, to talk about this year’s Opera Festival. Ergo Phizmiz, Jessica Walker, Rebecca de Pont Davies, David Knotts, Litha Efthymiou and our own Osnat Schmool talk about their work and you can catch up on it here!
Osnat and Roundhouse choir perform at Inside Out

Osnat and Roundhouse choir perform at Inside Out

Osnat and the Roundhouse choir along with ARTCH dancers will be performing on Fri 13 Jul 1.15pm outside St Luke’s the home of the LSO. If you have a broad musical taste (the choir perform music from South Africa, Namibia, Afro-Cuban Orishas, as well as pop, spirituals and orginal scores) please do go to st Luke’s,...
Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2012

Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2012

We are delighted to say that we are again going to be part of the festival season – not Edinburgh but Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival. We are joining around 30 companies who will bring about 100 performance to Riverside Studios in Hammersmith  between 2nd and 19th august 2012. We are bringing back One Small...
Momo R&D 2

Momo R&D 2

We have completed our second phase of work on Momo, which saw two sharings, one at South Street Arts Centre (who hosted us between 9th and 13th April) and one at Greenwich Theatre, where we were part of their children’s festival. We had a wonderful group of actors, David Cumming, Charlie Folorunsho, Luisa Guerreiro, Danny...
Hour Lily

Hour Lily

Today saw us seriously note-bashing as the cast came even more to grips with Figaro’s application to the Time Saving Bank, The Magic Mirror, Find Me  a Stone, Life’s Better with Momo and finally – the Hour Lilies. And here’s one Emma Wee made earlier! It’s an hour lily! How it really works you can...
First day of work, second phase

First day of work, second phase

It’s the first day of work on Momo at South Street Arts Centre. Here’s a slightly fuzzy picture of the cast note-bashing. We’re lucky to have David Cumming, Danny Kennedy, Charlie Folorunsho, Stuart King, Jane Nash, Rebecca Thorn and Luisa Guerreiro working with us this week. Don’t forget you are welcome to come to South Street...
Momo's Journey

Momo’s Journey

Momo’s journey continues as Osnat and I met up with Annie Siddons our dramaturg and Emma Wee our designer to work on the structure of the next stage of work on Momo. Osnat and I will be at South Street Arts Centre from 9th -13th April, alongside 7 performers to work on more songs and...
Osnat's SoundCloud

Osnat’s SoundCloud

Osnat has created a Sound Cloud for all her compositions and one of the first to sit there is this number from Little Angel Theatre‘s show Goldilocks (which is touring the country now!).You can listen to ‘Salut Hello’ by clicking on this link. We’ll be putting more music on the cloud soon as our next...