Massive Owl present: Castle Rock
As flashing neon lights descend upon the tracks, a boxing gloved boy with a death wish comes head to head with a white suited locomotive and a deer in black patent stilettos.
Castle Rock is a new story inspired by three of the voiceless characters in Stephen King's novella The Body, most famously adapted by Rob Reiner into the 1986 cult film, Stand By Me.
Expect looped voice, rhythmic physicality and projected words, as Massive Owl twist the film's soundtrack and contort the book's characters into a re-imagined story about friendship, loss and the things we fail to tell each other.
Welcome to Castle Rock!
Supported by Arts Council England, the Barbican Centre, Bristol Ferment, ICIA Bath, The Island, Arnolfini and our partners in Ireland: Project Arts Centre, Live Collision, Fringe Lab and the British Council (Ireland).
With special thanks to Jane Duffy.
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About the company
Massive Owl are a collaborative theatre company based in Bristol. They tell stories and in the process challenge how a story can look, sound and feel. Their work sits somewhere in the space between theatre, live art and the language of cinema. Massive Owl are Jenny Duffy, Sam Powell and Danny Prosser. They are associate artists of Live Collision and members of artist-led collective, Interval.
