Studio 6, 2pm
Running time: 80 mins
An interactive adventure about how we choose to rest, energy management and taking care of a querulous umbrella plant. Named Sven.
You play an avatar with an Energy Limiting Chronic Illness navigating an everyday-made-fantastical world where bedrooms become swamps and will o’the wisps burn through brain fog.
A Quest for Rest is a joyful, playful, collaborative piece of storytelling about discovering shared languages, holding embodied experiences and understandings of mutual care.
‘Beautiful, clever, nuanced, so intimate and engaging’ Audience Response – Summerhall Surgeries, Edinburgh
‘Presented a disabled experience as creative, embodied, rich and complex’ Audience
Response – Social Model…&More! Festival, Theatre Deli
Created with support from Theatre Deli, commissioned for the Social Model & More Festival.
Creators: Ariella Como Stoian & Mushmoss Collective
Collaborator: Susie Macdonald
Ariella (they/she) is a writer and multi-disciplinary interactive and immersive theatre-maker. They create playful, speculative work through a queer, intersectional lens, valuing joyful, imaginative, sometimes fantastical stories, informed by their own experiences as a Chronically ill, Disabled artist.
Ariella has previously worked for accessible poetry and spoken word organisations, in site responsive storytelling, for arts festivals in unusual places and in performing arts publishing.
They’re currently undertaking the Discover Program with outdoor arts organisation Without Walls. Ariella was recently Longlisted for the BBC Writersroom’s Popcorn Writing Award 2023 for their play ‘Hive’.
Mushmoss Collective creates multi-disciplinary, queer theatre between storytelling, composition and immersive play set in imagined worlds to consider connection and new futures.
Twitter: @mushmossco
Instagram: @mushmosscollective