Fix is a deliciously dark multidisciplinary and inclusive music-theatre work performed live by London Sinfonietta combining puppetry & object theatre, contemporary classical music, Foley sound, embedded interpretive sign-language and micro-cinema. A project that pushes boundaries combining live performance, puppetry, projection, BSL, sound and music.
At its heart, FIX offers a playful, quirky, and poetic perspective, a fantastical odyssey where FIX invites us to step into a world on the fringes, FIX plunges the audience into an intimate, interior atmosphere where we meet Malleus; a 'mender', who spends his time fixing broken ears. He is a life-size puppet existing between the world of the hearing and the world of the deaf, Malleus foes about his day in search of lost sounds. FIX searches for a new language, a new way of communicating to all audiences by presenting universal subjects, relevant to all.
Created by a deaf/hard of hearing composer and writer, FIX explores deafness, ableism, invisible disability and auditory hallucination/mental health where the puppeteers and live musicians are themselves pushed to question the notion of deafness and difference, the fundamental reasons for their own presence in the work.
FIX touches on the still relevant topic of exclusion, social alienation, misunderstanding and difficult family relationships.
The sounds are bright, fresh and inventive... wide ranging and often provocative. " The Guardian on Ailís Ní Ríain
...her bold approach combined with ingenious imagining of musical shapes. The Wire on Ailís Ní Ríain
Production breakdown
Description: music theatre
Duration: c.50'
Orchestration: 6 musicians + 1 puppeteer + 1 interpreter/physical theatre artist + 1 conductor
Artists:
Commission: London Sinfonietta
World premiere performances: April - July 2026
Find out more
Please contact London Sinfonietta CEO & Artistic Director Andrew Burke or Natalie Marchant, Head of Concerts & Touring.
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