Found Reality

Some weekends I really wish I could find reality. It seems to evade me, around the next street corner, or left in the dregs of a wine glass somewhere I am no longer. For the sake of this review, Found Reality is created by Sam Boardman-​Jacobs, Laura Haughey and Tony Brown and equates to ‘the fusion of physicality, text & image.’ Right you are.
Sam has won awards for both design & direction. He was a founder member of the London Fringe designing for the Bush, Soho, Gate, Warehouse, Hampstead & Kings Head Theatres. He has directed his own plays, Play Federico for me & Passion for the Impossible, at the Sherman Theatre Cardiff.
Laura is a Choreographer/​Movement Director and a trained Physiotherapist. Amongst those she has worked with are-​Manchester Youth Theatre. Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre Liverpool, Contact Theatre Manchester, Bolton Octagon & Ugly Theatre Group. Her special expertise is in integrating Deaf/​Hearing young performers.
Tony has been writing, composing and directing shows for children and young people since 1975. He is also Artistic Director of UP4IT Theatre, which has received Arts Council funding for their ‘Mirror Mirror’ project.
Found Reality’s devised piece «Asylum» at Manchester Royal Exchange was a breakthrough in integrating Deaf/​Hearing & Disabled performers and audiences.
All massively impressive but since then their output has gone very quiet. Found Reality, where are you? Ah, their website has the answer: ‘Found Reality Theatre are now working on an exciting Arts Council Funded Research and Development project. We are collaborating with local Artist Margaret Crossley to develop our existing methods of creating Choreographic Theatre. Watch this space for more news on Pain and Parenting!’ Now we know.