Right of Way
Written by Beth Bowden
Director and Performer Beth Bowden
Creative Producer Susannah Bramwell
Production Designer Layla Bradbeer
Associate Artist & Access Support Coordinator Nina Fidderman
Movement Consultant Jennifer Fletcher
Technical Stage Manager Erin Green
Composer & Sound Designer Joseff Harris
Video Design Beth Bowden
★★★★★ Broadway World
“It straddles the line between poetry and theatre in an exquisite exploration of the landscape of grief.”
★★★★★ Everything Theatre
“Raw, heartbreaking, and altogether beautiful, Beth Bowden’s semi-autobiographical Right of Way is a poetic jewel waiting to be uncovered.”
‘I take a body – this body, this breath, this space – and locate myself as a dot in the landscape, to say I AM HERE / WE WERE HERE because We and She are the local landscape. We and She is the local landscape’
Half submerged in a cramped bathtub and flooded by her grief, Beth decides to walk the South West Coast Path – in choosing to walk, grow, and to reclaim space, she finds radical joy.
Using lyrical movement and projections of the Coast Path, Right Of Way explores our intimate connection with the coastline, bodies of water and our heritage. Written whilst walking the South West Coast Path, it is an autobiographical and embodied reflection on disability, chronic illness and being a Young Carer. Right Of Way features integrated creative captioning as part of the video design.
Production images by Lidia Crisafulli
