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COMPOSER

EMILY LEVY

WRITER-DIRECTOR

MELLA FAYE

"I’m still a sister. Your sister.

Though it’s more like a secret over time.

I catch myself looking for the empty places inside other people.

It’s a way of not letting you go"

Emily Levy, Composer

Composer Emily Levy and Writer-Director Mella Faye present an unflinching, heartfelt and uplifting exploration of love, loss and survival.

 

Music, dance and recorded interviews from conversations across the UK are brought together by a world class ensemble of musicians, dancers and actors to create an extraordinary elegy to the power of story and human connection.

 

Me Without You celebrates those we’ve lost, and those of us who are still here. 

 

LIVE SHOWS

Aldeburgh Festival - Britten Studio, Snape Maltings

WORLD PREMIERE

Sunday 16th June 3 pm

Opera North - Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds

Saturday 22nd June 7:45 pm

Spitalfields Music Festival - Metronome, London

Thursday 4th July 7 pm

ABOUT US

Emily Levy is a singer and composer with particular interest in voice, sound design and narrative. Her musical influences range from medieval to classical, folk to jazz and the format ranges from solo projects, small and large ensemble, radio soundtrack, theatre and co-creation.

Mella Faye is a multi-award winning writer-director with a passion for celebrating the creative and sensual chaos of the female gaze. She is Artistic Director of Pecho Mama, makers of radical gig-theatre that reclaims the myths from the contemporary female perspective. 

Emily & Mella became friends on the Sound and Music New Voices Programme and Emily invited Mella to work on her verbatim project; Songs of Belonging. Through their work, that project was revealed to be an expression of Emily’s search for a sense of ‘home’ in the years after the death of her beloved brother. With this intimate insight, the pair began to scale the project into Me Without You. 
With the same story gathering structure at its heart, and an expanded ensemble of actors, dancers, musicians and visual artists, the show remains a tender expression of Emily’s very personal experience.

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YOU

Have you experienced the death of someone you love?

Would you like to honour them here with us?

If so, we would love for you to contribute

to our collection of thoughts, memories, stories and reflections.

This could be a photo, a poem or piece of writing, a voice recording or video, artwork, or anything else.  

Please get in touch to start a conversation at hello@mewithoutyou.co.uk

You can find the ever-growing collection here >>

CATALOGUE OF CONNECTION

CREATIVE TEAM

Emily Levy-Composer/Performer

Mella Faye-Writer/Director

Fionn Cox-Davies – voice, guitar, dance

Tara Franks – cello, voice

Mirabelle Gremaud – voice, harp, dance

Preetha Narayanan – violin, voice

Tom Penn – voice, double bass, violin

Sal Pittman - Artist/Filmmaker

Tom Clutterbuck - Visual Technician

Simon Booth - Sound Engineer

Sam Halmarack - Videographer

Jackie Newbould - Senior Producer

Henrietta Duckworth - Senior Producer 

Katrina Pike - Assistant Producer

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