Mrs M’s Cart of Curative Curiosities – Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Commissioned by Kew Gardens for this summer’s Plantasia Festival, this piece was devised as science director of Too Big for Ballet Theatre Company, under the artistic direction of Liv Spencer and in collaboration with the creative design talent of Bad Things Creations.

This vibrant, interactive performance combines science, theatre, and design realisation to educate and enchant audiences about the historical and modern medicinal use of plants and fungi.

Based around Mrs. M, a larger than life character who spends her winters roaming across the globe to see the world’s multifarious use of plants and fungi and in summer returns to her roots, cycling around Kew, pulling her amazing cart. Filled with a melee of plants, fungi, powders, oils, tinctures and lotions, it’s an explosion of curative curiosities.

Team Einstein – Green Man Festival

Commissioned by Einstein’s Garden, in collaboration with Angel Exit Theatre and supported by Wellcome Trust ‘Science in Play’.

Using song, dance and science experiments, this interactive, roaming theatrical performance explored the principles of human performance.

 

Engaging and educating audiences across the Green Man Festival around the principles of oxygen intake, haemoglobin oxygen transport and delivery to muscles, and the science of social facilitation.