Embodying the Eerie: An Investigation of the Eerie as a Dramaturgical Concept in Processes of Directing Devised Performance (PhD Thesis): [Appendix A 4] This Is The Land (2022) performance in dress rehearsal, [Appendix A 5] This Is The Land (2023) performance footage at the Network Theatre, VAULT Festival, London

This item contains appendices relating to the PhD thesis, Embodying the Eerie: An investigation of the Eerie as a Dramaturgical Concept in Processes of Directing Devised Performance, by doctoral candidate Mary Steadman.

This Is The Land is a performance that explores the eeriness of place through references to Folk Horror. Spectral landscapes are explored through a structure of the seasons, as the past and lost futures are summoned through the 'eerie materiality of sound technology'. The non-linear montage resists narrative and layers time as a dyschronia, with 'ghostly figures' appearing as 'abstract projections' arising in a 'thin place'. The production was filmed in rehearsal in the Dance Studio, Bath Spa University, in July 2022, and at the Network Theatre, VAULT Festival, London, in February 2023

Concept and Direction by Mary Steadman

Devised by Mary Steadman, Leeza Jessie, Xavier De Santos, Samuel De La Torre, Alice Buckley, Zov Vélez

Lighting/sound // Samuel De La Torre

Recorded Sound Composed // John Baggott

Scenography and Costume // Mary Steadman

Performers // Leeza Jessie, Zov Vélez, Samuel De La Torre, Xavier De Santos, Alice Buckley

Filmed with permission from Mary Steadman by ChewBoy Productions (VAULT Festival)