A Place To Fall To Pieces

You are on an island. And it is sinking. It is not a metaphor, nor is it a dream. It is the end. But how can you drown, when you haven’t a place to lay your bones? And when you don’t know where it is, how can anyone bring you home?

Created and performed by folk/spoken word duo Isobel and Anna Hughes, A Place To Fall To Pieces is a search for roots, a love letter to the places we have been but never been from. With original composition, spoken word, storytelling and song, Anna and Isobel take you on a lyrical journey, through memory and magic and earth, to seek the indelible mark our country leaves on us and where the permanence of Home truly lies.

‘Your face is like a map. I can see all of the wheres you have ever been in that line between the corner of your mouth and your nose.’

A Place To Fall To Pieces has been created with the support of Sage Gateshead – beginning with their Summer Studios residency in 2019. Since then it has been further supported by Mahogany Opera Company, in workshops at Nottingham Playhouse and as one of five pieces selected internationally to take part in their Various Stages Festival 2020. It had it’s livestream premier in 2021 at The Space, Isle of Dogs and was subsequentially invited to be a part of C venues’ digital programme at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021.

In February 2022, with another residency at Sage Gateshead and funded by Arts Council England, A Place To Fall To Pieces began an intense development, rehearsal and production period with a full creative team. This culminated in a tour across England, which was widely commended.