A live cinema performance which guides an audience through the tentative and risky process of summoning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman to the theatre.

Through the use of video, choreography and sound, LOVELY creates a live film set on stage where ten young artists recreate scenes from the actor’s vast filmography. These are performed and presented in real-time alongside the originals, culminating in an event that is part love-letter, part eulogy.

Accompanied by a driving mix of electronica, LOVELY blurs the line between theatrical artifice and communal event, presenting a thoroughly contemporary iteration of the celebrity crush.

Concept, video, sound design & direction by Jackson Davis
Co-direction by Carly Young
Video Technician Solomon Thomas
Dramaturgy by Malcolm Whittaker
Performed by Jackson Davis, Pippa Ellams, Hannah Goodwin, James Harding, Emma Hoole, Kirby Medway, Lauren Scott-Young, Oliver Trauth-Goik, Christie Woodhouse and Carly Young

2014 Performed at PACT Centre for Emerging Artists. Images by Heidrun Löhr