Beneath The Dust 2019

Come prepared, expect to be scared, hope to leave. An immersive Halloween experience for over 18s only.

In 2019, in partnership with Grid Iron, Surge and The Stove, we brought this site responsive production to somewhere central and previously forgotten, in Dumfries.

This immersive theatre experience was made possible with funding from Creative Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway Council Major Events Fund, The Holywood Trust and Dumfries and Galloway Arts Live.

Beneath The Dust was conceived by Bunbury Banter, written by Ali Anderson-Dyer & Roanna Davidson and devised by the company. #BENEATHTHEDUST

Reviews

"“an unusually powerful show… tense and uncanny”"

- Review from Joyce McMillan, the Scotsman

"Beautifully thought through. A good example of how immersive theatre can engage audiences profoundly within a safe and controlled environment, provoking much thought without directly confronting the audience."

- Audience member

"It was like nothing I’ve ever seen in Dumfries. So creative and involving. The whole thing drew such on such powerful cultural roots in the region and put a shiver up my spine and a smile on my face"

- Audience member

"This was a wonderfully interactive and truly immersive event. It really did tap in to all the senses! I’m particularly proud that a production of this type is finally being shown in Dumfries. We’re so fortunate to have The Bunbury Banter Theatre Company here in this region"

- Audience member

"I loved the idea that it was completely secret and no one had any clue what the event was. It really added to the effect. The actors were fantastic and we had a brilliant night. Will definitely come again."

- Audience member

"From the start with the fire torches we knew we were in for a good night. The atmosphere, cast, story was superb and it really drew you in."

- Audience member

Beneath The Dust was created by Bunbury Banter in partnership with Grid Iron and Surge; together bringing this site responsive theatre production to somewhere previously forgotten in Dumfries.

This immersive theatre experience was made possible with funding from Creative Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway Council Major Events Fund, The Holywood Trust and Dumfries and Galloway Arts Live.

Beneath The Dust was conceived by Bunbury Banter, written by Ali Anderson-Dyer & Roanna Davidson and devised by the company.

Photography credit Peter Dibdin

Director

Ali Anderson-Dyer

Set & Costume Designer

Claire Halleran

Sound & Lighting Designer

The Biome Collective

Stage Manager

Emma Yeomans

Assistant Stage Manager

Anya Bisset

Production Manager

Sandy Sweetman

Producer

Philip Anderson-Dyer

Production Assistants

Andrew Hamish Birch & Livia Nicholson

Technical Assistant

Nathan Cloy

Photography

Peter Dibdin

Cast

The Host

Camille Marmié

Theatre credits include: The Wizard of Oz (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Horizontal Collaboration (David Leddy/Fire Exit, Scottish Tour), Hamlet (UK and Ireland No.1 Tour), Calvinball (Ipdip Theatre), Blackout (Showroom/New Room Theatre, Scottish Tour), When the Rain Stops Falling (Tron Theatre / Makeshift Broadcast), The Bloody Boyds (Surge), The Cherry Orchard (Rekindle Theatre Company); Huis Clos, Le Petit Prince (Vienna’s English Theatre); King Lear, Twelfth Night (Bard in the Botanics), Cinderella (Citizens Theatre).

Assistant

David J Kirkwood

David trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and at The School at Steppenwolf, Chicago. Scottish theatre credits include: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Royal Lyceum), Daphne Oram’s Wonderful World of Sound (Blood Of The Young/Tron Theatre), Toy Plastic Chicken, One Thinks of it all as a Dream (both A Play, A Pie and A Pint), Mancub (Cumbernauld Theatre), His Bloody Project: A Theatrical Exploration (Royal Lyceum/EIBF), 549: Scots Of The Spanish Civil War (Wonder Fools), and W-hat About? (Fuora Dance Project).

The Butcher

Mark McDonnell

Theatre credits include: Turns Of The Tide (Oran Mor), All The Lights Are On (Ace productions/ Summerhall Edinburgh Fringe), Still Game Live 2: Bon Voyage (SSE Hydro) The Crucible (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), Sleeping Beauty, One Million Tiny Plays About Britain (Citizen’s Theatre), Union, Of Mice And Men, The Importance Of Being Earnest, Romeo And Juliet, Curse Of The Starving Class, Trumpets And Raspberries (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh), The Sundowe (Eden Court/Cameron MacIntosh), Television includes: Outlander, Nick Nickleby, Pantocracy, River City, Taggart, Rab C Nesbitt, Still Game, Coronation Street and many more.

Welcomer

Roanna Davidson

Theatre credits include: Peaky Blinders Immersive Experience, Quest For Oz, Dragons Of Drummohr (Vision mechanics), Beautiful Bones (Surge), Tron 100 Festival, Nursery Crimes (Mischief-la-bas), Ego et Al (Hidden Door), Three’s A Crowd (All or Nothing), Perch (Surge, Lume Teatro, legs on the wall), White Gold (Cuerda Producciones, Iron Oxide) Glasgow Girls (National Theatre of Scotland), Ravens (Sabotage Theatre), It’s Your Funeral (The Dank Parish), My Dream Hackney Home, The Arden Surgery, Hollywood (Old Vic New Voices and Time Warner) Atching Tan (BBC and Romany Theatre Company)

Chosen One

Rebekah Lumsden

Trained at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Recent credits include: Scots Of The Spanish Civil War (Wonder Fools), Sleeping Beauty (Glasgow Life), The Greatest (A Play, A Pie and a Pint), Pure Freezing (Play a Pie and a Pint), Death Of A Salesman (Dundee Rep), Spoiling (Dundee Rep).