MELANCHOLIC ELECTRONIC

Melancholic Electronic is a series of short theatre performances, exploring the relationship between electronic media and mental health. Designed for modular delivery the performances can be rearranged and removed to create a multitude of meanings for specific environments.

DINNER WITH KIERKEGAARD

2018
Short Play

Four strangers from an online chatroom gather for a dinner party like no other, but their plans already teetering on a knife-edge of anxiety and nerves get thrown into disarray upon the arrival of Kierkegaard, a sixteen-year-old boy from the same chatroom, a chat room dedicated to suicide. Refusing to play into the dinner party role-play that the rest of the guests have bought into, Kierkegaard begins to push the guests to their limit, asking if they are really ready for the end.

Dinner with Kierkegaard was developed though GLYPT’s #Progression programme partnering young writers with mentors and cast to platform the new writing of emerging artists.

The Melancholic Electronic series explores modern mental health issues through its close relation to digital technologies and internet culture.

CREDITS

Written & Developed | Andrew Martin Lee & The Midnight Florists

With | Atiha Sen Gupta

Directed | Angela Clerkin & Annie Fitzmaurice

Performed | #Progression Young Actors

With thanks to #Progression Writers 2018

Supported by Greenwich and Lewisham Young Peoples Theatre

THE DREAMING MACHINE

2016
Adapted Theatre Performance

I’ve been here for hours.
Waiting for the energy to move.
It’s been a long time since I last saw the day before noon.

A nameless woman lays in bed, talking to the voices in her head. They are not in even real voices, she’s made them up, she pretends their real to give herself someone to talk to. As if she could talk her way out of the void that leaves her feeling... pointless.

Written for his mother as an explanation of his experiences of depression that rendered him bed-bound as a teenager. Andrew Martin Lee’s experimental performance draws upon the works of the Japanese Director Satoshi Kon whose cannon of films explore how modern people cope with living multiple lives.

Adapting the underlying philosophies of Kon’s films, The Dreaming Machine is an exploration of the freedom and imprisonment provided by WiFi-enabled devices on people with depression.

CREDITS

Written & Directed | Andrew Lee The

Performed by | Steph Bundy, Rachel Dawson, Emma McElhinney

With Thanks to | Pete Phillips, Satoshi Kon

Supported by | The University of Chichester, Novelty Magazine