About
There can be few more aptly named theatre companies than Lost Text/Found Space - The Times
Lost Text/Found Space make site-based performances in hidden spaces for adventurous audiences.
We work in unique, found spaces with lost texts, bringing unheard voices from the past to the present. We create layered performances which are multi-sensory, engaging and playful. We also work with local community partners and aim to create exceptional accessibly priced performances for Peckham's community.
Making Connections at The Old Waiting Room is an ongoing collaboration with Peckham’s community to develop this remarkable space as a creative hub for Peckham and London. Rebecca has led Making Connections as its Creative Director and it is now in its second successful year, expanding its work to include art installations, immersive film festival and our first full-scale site-specific production in the space - Still Lives.
Lost Space/ Found Text’s approach is gentle and intimate, guiding the audience through the performance and inviting them to participate in small ways. The performers’ refrain ‘Can you help me?’ is an invitation, not a command.- Exeunt Magazine
Lost Text/Found Space is led by artistic director Rebecca McCutcheon, working with collaborators including producer Emily Briselden-Waters, composer Lucy Harrison, dancer/performer Flora Wellesley-Wesley.
‘Every work of art that fails to be recognised by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear, irretrievably’
– Walter Benjamin
Rebecca McCutcheon
Image courtesy Ellie Kurttz
Rebecca is the founding member of Lost Text/Found Space, directing Still Lives, Til We Meet In England, A Testimony and a Silence, and Cary, the Mariam Cycles as well as Creative Director of the Making Connections seasons.
Rebecca trained at Goldsmiths' College and worked as an assistant & staff director at the RSC, the Almeida Theatre and the National Theatre. Rebecca directed acclaimed productions of Marlowe’s Dido Queen of Carthage, at The House of St Barnabas in Soho, and at Kensington Palace, The Round Dance by Arthur Schnitzler at the Roundhouse and Still Life by Noel Coward at the Aldwych Tube Station, as co-founder of Angels in the Architecture. Theatre-based directing included Bette & Joan for Foursight Theatre and Vincent River for Old Vic Productions. Rebecca's site-based work with Lost Text/Found Space emerges from her AHRC funded PhD at Royal Holloway. Rebecca is also active in Peckham's local community, producing 45 rpm's with Periplum, Bring Me Sunshine and Peckham Patchwork between local shops and schools. www.RebeccaMcCutcheon.com
Lucy Harrison
Lucy is a composer and sound designer specialising in interactive sound and music. She focuses on the use of new technology and electronics and through this she creates immersive soundscapes, interactive sound installations and sound and music for theatre. She has a PhD in composition from Royal Holloway, University of London, where she investigated audience engagement and how audience roles change in interactive sound installations through three interactive installations.https://laharrisonmusic.co.uk/about/
Flora Wellesley-Wesley
Flora is a performer and maker who has collaborated with McCutcheon and Mason since 2010, in their Dilston Grove and Copeland Park projects. She works with a variety of directors, choreographers and visual artists alongside creating her own work. She is co-founder of 'Nora', a Sadler's Wells supported dancer-led project in which dancers curate and perform together. "...intellectually curious, funny and rude, possessed of chameleon stage talents and a taste for risk" The Guardian http://52portraits.co.uk/home/2016/1/8/flora-wellesley-wesley
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