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b'Acclaimed performance maker Tamara Saulwick employs portable turntables, reel-to-reel tape players and live performance in a moving meditation on cycles and the ending of things. Featuring the voice of Paddy Mann (Grand Salvo), an electro-acoustic score by Peter Knight, and design by Ben Cobham, Endings explores the experiences \\u2013 both ordinary and extraordinary \\u2013 that cluster around death, dying and afterlife.\\n\\nEndings is built, in part, from one-on-one interviews: real people\\u2019s stories, reflections and voices. Cut onto bespoke vinyl records, these voices are embedded in a richly textured sound design; operated, accompanied and extended through live performance and song. \\n\\nVoices of the living emerge from the crackle of records turning, vintage reel-to-reels send tape loops round the space. Performers converse with recorded thoughts from the past\\u2026and a voice floats through this evocative sound-world, singing an ode to the recently departed\\u2026\\n\\n\\u201cIt\\u2019s remarkable theatre, executed with an exact brilliance that makes its sensual vividness all the more powerful.\\u201d Alison Croggon, on Pin Drop\\n\\nThis Postshow Q&A was recorded Thursday 14th May 2015\\n\\nConcept, Writing & Performance: Tamara Saulwick\\nAudio Design & Composition: Peter Knight \\nSongwriting & Performance: Paddy Mann \\nSet & Lighting Design: Ben Cobham (bluebottle)\\nDramaturgy: Margaret Trail \\nCostume Design: Harriet Oxley \\nTechnical Management & Operation: Nick Roux \\nProduction Management: Emily O\\u2019Brien \\nProducer: Freya Waterson (Insite Arts)'