Award-winning British poet and playwright, Carol Ann Duffy’s most recent collaborations with Tim Supple include Opera North’s production of The Magic Flute,  and the Young Vic’s Grimm Tales which also included Melly Still as designer. Her poetry collections include The World’s Wife (1999), Standing Female Nude (1985), The Other Country and Mean Time, which won the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year). Her latest collection for children is The Good Child’s Guide to Rock N Roll (2003). She is also an acclaimed playwright, having three plays performed at the Liverpool Playhouse and Almeida. She was awarded an OBE in 1995, a CBE in 2001 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999.

Melly Still has worked extensively as a designer at the Young Vic (Grimm Tales, The Jungle Book, Blood Wedding) the RSC (Tales from Ovid, Midnight’s Children) and at the National Theatre (Haroun and the Sea of Stories). She was also co-director and movement director on these productions.

Terje Isungset is one of the most innovative percussionists in Europe today. His individual sound is created by his use of self-made instruments and sound sources. He works mostly within free improvisation, often in collaboration with traditional musicians throughout the world including Germany, UK, Nigeria and Australia. His has also produced three critically acclaimed CDs including Floating Rhythms, and in 2002 he released Iceman Is, an album recorded using instruments made from ice.

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