"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."

PRS Women Make Music
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PRS Women Make Music

by Sabina on Nov 5, 2011
Osnat has been awarded a grant from the PRS for Music Foundation towards the  composition of the score for Momo. She is being funded through the ‘Women Make Music’ award scheme.You can read more about the award here and more about PRS for Music Foundation and their grant schemes here...
Momo underway
Arts Council England / Arts Funding / Filament / momo / Music Theatre

Momo underway

by Sabina on Oct 28, 2011
Work is well under way on Momo, after a very good week with a wonderful cast at Jacksons Lane. With the help of Emma Wee our designer and Annie Siddons our dramaturg, we are now busy working on the material created and developed at Jacksons Lane. There are more pictures...
Filament awarded Arts Council funding
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Filament awarded Arts Council funding

by Sabina on Sep 9, 2011
We are delighted to have been awarded a grant by Arts Council England to start developing Momo. We will be working for a week in the autumn of this year at Jacksons Lane, followed by a period of development next spring hosted by South Street Arts Centre in Reading. Osnat will...
One Small Step
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One Small Step

by Sabina on Aug 23, 2011
We performed this piece at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival on 14th and 21st August 2011. You can see a film of the performance on our shows page under One Small Step.
Momo
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Momo

by Filament on May 20, 2011
  “It’s like this my dear sir. You’re wasting your life cutting hair, lathering faces and swapping idle chit chat. When you’re dead it will be as if you never existed. If only you had the time to lead the right kind of life, you’d be quite a different person....
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Caravan – afterthoughts

by Sabina on Jan 27, 2012
There’s nothing like a trip to the south west to get the wind in your hair, and a buzz in your feet.  Osnat had been teaching Georgian songs to the cast of ‘Macbeth’  at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School the day before, which might explain (for the superstitious amongst you) why she had no voice at all...
Arts Council England / Arts Funding / Filament

Caravan Symposium

by Sabina on Jan 19, 2012
Osnat and I are looking forward to a day of symposing at the Bristol Old Vic, as we take part in a training event organised by Caravan. Caravan is run by Farnham Maltings and showcases new theatre  work, made in England, to international promoters in a three day event at the Brighton Festival. Alongside this, Caravan...
Children's Theatre / Filament / momo / Music Theatre / Women Make Music

Dramaturgy as wind howls

by Sabina on Jan 5, 2012
So having met for our last planning session at Paddington station where the chilly north wind gets to even the cosiest corners, Osnat and I moved New Year operations to the Royal Festival Hall, where we were joined by dramaturg Annie Siddons and designer Emma Wee. Having settled ourselves on the top floor, we talked...
Children's Theatre / Filament / momo

Merry Christmas

by Sabina on Dec 15, 2011
After the opening of Goldilocks at the Little Angel Theatre last week (for which Osnat has been writing the music) we had the chance to catch up and continue planning for our next R&D period on Momo. It’s going to be a big show for us, our biggest yet and we are grappling with quite what...
Music Theatre

Sabina to work with Opera North education on Verve

by Sabina on Nov 29, 2011
As Osnat  works on both the score of Goldilocks for Little Angle  and Momo for Filament, I’m getting ready for an exciting project which Opera North run annually for young people with Aspergers Syndrome. ‘Verve’ provides the opportunity for two groups to meet once a week and create music theatre/opera around stories linked to the...
Children's Theatre / Music Theatre

Osnat writing music for Goldilocks at Little Angel

by Sabina on Nov 29, 2011
Osnat is writing the music for Little Angel Theatre’s Christmas show for 3-5 year olds, based on Goldilocks and the three bears. Called simply Goldilocks,The show opens on 7th December and plays until the 29th January. From what she’s revealed about it so far, it sounds enchanting! You can read more about the show, here...
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Vimeo

by Sabina on Nov 10, 2011
You can now see films of our work on Vimeo. Click this link to get to our page, Enjoy!
First day of R&D at Jacksons Lane
Arts Council England / Arts Funding / Filament / momo / Workshops

First day of R&D at Jacksons Lane

by Sabina on Oct 17, 2011
Had a lovely first day of R&D on MOMO at Jacksons Lane. Here is Lola, she’s a show girl or at least a doll which we brought to life. We’ll have to see if she will make an appearance again.
Rehearsals for Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival
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Rehearsals for Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival

by Sabina on Aug 9, 2011
Our first day of rehearsals for One Small Step. Adebayo and Osnat hard at work, constructing the percussion to accompany the sung music.
Momo workshop at The Young Vic
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Momo workshop at The Young Vic

by Osnat on Jul 8, 2011
The beginnings of Momo….a short process of exploration  at The Clare Studio Theatre, as part Young Vic directors programme, June 2011. The next period of development will be at Jacksons Lane in October 2011
New Website Launched!
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New Website Launched!

by Filament on Jul 5, 2011
Crowds gathered, factory tools were downed, etc. The wonderful Jason Hart at Kickmouth has updated our website. Hope you enjoy looking round and interacting with it!
What a nice way to warm up
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What a nice way to warm up

by Filament on Jun 23, 2011
And a very good job the cameras were rolling!

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