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Voice Thief, The

Voice Thief, TheImage: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Imagine you have discovered a place deep underground where hundreds of girl’s voices have been held for years…

Would you like to get to know some of the voices?
Would you like to know what happened?
And if you could return the voice to its rightful owner, would you?

Catherine Wheels will transform a series of rooms in the basement of Edinburgh’s Summerhall in to the darkly mysterious Voice Facility. This is the first time the public have been allowed into The Voice Facility and it may be the last…


The critical consensus

The immersive experience of this vocal version of Stepford Wives can be a little scary but not half as scary as the fact of real people, particularly women, being silenced.

***(*)(*)Irene Brown, Edinburgh Guide, 05/11/2014

Everything a piece of theatre should be: not just funny, tense and alarming, but politically engaged, angry and inspirational.

*****Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 05/11/2014

This just might be the most creative, passionate and insightful production a Scottish theatre company has produced in years.

*****Michael Cox, Across the Arts, 09/11/2014

If the slightly predictable text often seems to have been added as an afterthought to the rest of the drama, the central idea is magnificently realised.

****(*)Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 09/11/2014

The Voice Thief is a one of a kind experience that is definitely one of the most memorable and inventive pieces of theatre to be found this winter.

*****Stewart McLaren, TVBomb, 11/11/2014

“I absolutely do not want to make issue-based theatre”, insists Gill Robertson, Catherine Wheels’ artistic director (and, with Karen Tennent, co-creator of the show), in her programme notes. I admire her preference for metaphor over polemic, but I hope Robertson will not take offence at my description of The Voice Thief as a feminist play of the most creative and resonating kind.

Mark Brown, Scottish Stage (Sunday Herald), 26/11/2014


Features about Voice Thief, The

New theatre show The Voice Thief explores female voices for the over-9s

Kelly Apter, The List, 22/10/2014

Where and when?

Summerhall, Edinburgh from Saturday November 1, 2014, until Saturday November 15, 2014.

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