PRODUCTIONS

Open Sky creates strikingly visual live and digital work for stage and screen. We produce new writing based on lived experience.

By offering an artistic expression of the world in which we live we seek to provoke conversations about the things that matter most.

The Open Sky creative team have been creating work for a while now. Here’s some of our favourites that we made earlier…

  • A Young Black Boy stares into the distance

    BLIND FAITH

    SHORT FILM/DIGITAL THEATRE. Part of a new anthology about defining our identities. A story about blindness written by Samuelson Obigbesan.

  • Young girl bends over her father lying on the floor

    THE ART OF DYING

    SHORT FILM/DIGITAL THEATRE. Part of a new anthology about defining our identities. A samurai story written by Lisle Turner.

  • Close up photo of young black girl

    SHOOBS

    SHORT FILM/DIGITAL THEATRE. Part of a new anthology about defining our identities. A coming-of-age story written by Janet Etuk.

  • Photo of young white man with black hair looking concerned

    SHRIMP

    SHORT FILM/DIGITAL THEATRE. Part of a new anthology about defining our identities. A homecoming story written by Yasser Zadeh.

  • A close up photo of woman looking directly at the camera

    OUTSIDE THE BOX

    SHORT FILM/DIGITAL THEATRE. Part of a new anthology about defining our identities. A revenge comedy by Claire Coaché

  • A group of men and women in grey jackets sitting in a row. Each is holding a black stick.

    THE LAST SHOW

    DOCUMENTARY. A 30-minute documentary chronicling the impact of The London International Mime Festival on the British and international theatre industry during the last forty-seven years.

  • A black woman with tied-back braids wearing a fur coat kneels next to a tree in a snowfilled forest picking berries.

    COLD

    FEATURE FILM / DIGITAL THEATRE. This multi-award-winning dark fairytale about love, loss, madness and redemption stars Janet Etuk and Jacob Meadows.

  • Four people encircle and scream at young man who is crouching down. WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS

    WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS

    LIVE THEATRE. Commissioned by the JOY Festival for performance at Lyric Hammersmith this is the story of a disabled band rehearsing for their first gig.

  • A black female hand places a gold ring into the brown open palm of her partner.

    THE CEREMONY

    SHORT FILM / DIGITAL THEATRE. This multi-award-winning short by playwright Iman Qureshi is a searingly honest take on non-binary marriage with a twist.

  • Two white male teenagers face each other in an open field. Behind them are clouds. The boy on the left is wearing a black tracksuit, the boy on the right is wearing a khaki gillet with brown corderoy shoulders and a checked shirt..

    STILE

    SHORT FILM / DIGITAL THEATRE. This Digital Culture Award winner about economic privilege is part of an anthology written by playwrights about social polarisation.

  • A young black non-binary person smiles and holds up a glass of rose wine toasting their friend. They have neon orange braids, a nose ring and are wearing a purple sparkling t-shirt with a snow-washed black denim shirt.

    HEAD OVER WHEELS

    SHORT FILM / DIGITAL THEATRE. This Digital Culture Award winner about disabled dating is part of an anthology written by playwrights about social polarisation.

  • A young white woman with tied-back brown hair is lit in a dark living room. She is wearing a green floral off-the shoulder top.

    HOMEWORK

    SHORT FILM / DIGITAL THEATRE. This Digital Culture Award winner about climate catastrophe is part of an anthology written by playwrights about social polarisation.

  • A middle-aged white woman with short bleach blonde hair wearing glasses is sitting at a desk holding a pen and looking irritated.

    THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING HONEST

    SHORT FILM / DIGITAL THEATRE. This Digital Culture Award winner about xenophobia is part of an anthology written by playwrights about social polarisation.

  • The Disappearing Act

    THE DISAPPEARING ACT

    LIVE THEATRE. Physical theatre and darkly comic new writing about a magician’s assistant. Addresses how women vanish as they age. Tour interrupted by Covid.

  • Group of musician playing instruments. All are focused on central point.

    FOLK

    SHORT FILM. Made as part of the BBC’s New Creatives strand this short film was scored and performed by an emerging musician and artist Livi van Warmelo.

  • A man holds an imaginary gun with a furrowed brow.  His mouth is open as if shouting.

    SCORCHED

    LIVE THEATRE. This critically lauded physical theatre piece about an old soldier’s dementia premiered at Edinburgh Fringe and toured nationally.

  • A Man and a woman are sitting on the floor hugging their knees. They are looking in different directions.

    HAIRY FAIRY TALES

    LIVE THEATRE. Classic fairy stories retold as never before through rhyme, song, music, puppetry, mime and magical transformations. Toured nationally and internationally.

  • In the foreground is a puppet prince sitting on a hand. Behind is a masked man reaching for the prince.

    THE MIGHTY PRINCE & OTHER FABULOUS FABLES

    LIVE THEATRE. This physical theatre and puppetry show recounting Buddhist folk tales toured extensively and is currently being adapted for television.

  • A young man and woman sit on the grass leaning against a tree. Both have a faraway look.

    HERE AND NOW

    FEATURE FILM. This troubled teen coming of age story was released in cinemas to national critical acclaim. Shot on location in and around Herefordshire.

  • A white man is looking up at the blue cartoon bird on his head.

    EVERYBODY

    ANIMATION / SHORT FILM. This animation and live action short was released on two hundred cinema screens in the UK playing before High School Musical III.

  • A black and white photo of a boxer warming up in a boxing ring.  there are flags and photos filling the wall behind them.

    CANVAS

    SHORT FILM. Commissioned by Channel 4 this drama short was part of a 3 Minute Wonder strand encouraging young, working class people to engage with art.

  • A silhouette picture of a shelf unit containing books, jugs and pottery. There are 2 people in the picture reading books.

    FROM NEWBURY WITH LOVE

    LIVE THEATRE. This adaptation of the book of the same name involved a chorus of schoolchildren brought from Moldova, the former Soviet state in which the story is set.

  • A close up shot of an Asian man looking straight ahead.

    COLOUR BLIND FAITH

    SHORT FILM. Commissioned by Channel 4 as part of an anthology to celebrate human rights this film examines abuses carried out during the War on Terror.

  • 3 girls in white dresses lie on beds. They are lying in a foetal position. Their eyes are open.

    THE IDIOT COLONY

    LIVE THEATRE. This multi-award-winning play about the “moral defectives” sold out at Edinburgh Fringe and London International Mime Festival before touring nationally.

  • Japanese woman on the telephone in a call box

    YOU CAN GO NOW

    SHORT FILM. This short film tells the touching story of a young Japanese woman who, while trying to adapt to British culture at university, rescues a baby squirrel.

  • A hand drawn picture of an interpretation of Measles. A large red blob with 2 black arms, 2 black legs, a large nose, 2 small eyes and a open mouth full of teeth. It has red spikes coming away from the body. It is surrounding by other red blobs

    MEASLES

    ANIMATED SHORT. This British Animation Award winner is a darkly comic take on the global and deadly proliferation of small arms. Stars Brian Cox as a measles virus.

  • A young woman is standing behind a microphone. She is leaning one hand on a table and  the other hand is on her hip. There is a series of blue vertical lines behind her.

    THE SECRET POLICEMAN'S BALL

    LIVE TV. Made with Tioger Aspect for Channel 4 this comedy gala featured 65 artists performing live at the Royal Albert Hall. Starring Jimmy Fallon, Sarah Silverman et al.