Make Believe/Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Quarantine co-production with Contact Theatre, Manchester (Supported by the Arts Council England) The researcher’s design work questions how we separate the 'real' from the 'made up' in a theatre by utilising a meta-theatrical frame to illuminate the ordinary and mundane, provoking an examination of notional “realities”: in this case those from which our beliefs/attitudes are formed.

The creation of a new piece of work by Quarantine. 'Make Believe' investigates the nature of belief from a range of positions religious, political, philosophical and neurological. Posing questions about when we decide to believe? How do we decide what is true? and how do we separate the 'real' from the ?made up? in a piece of theatre? The Scenographic input concentrates on this last question as a frame for investigating all others. The construction of the space referenced the traditional format of theatrical presentation enabling acts of pretending whilst simultaneously deconstructing and revealing the artifice and therefore the reality of the event in its given (and varied) locations.