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…

  • SHOOBS

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

  • SHRIMP

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

  • OUTSIDE THE BOX

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

  • 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.

  • FOLK

    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.

  • SCORCHED

    SCORCHED

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

  • Hairy Fairy Tales

    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.

  • The Mighty Prince and Other Fabulous Fables

    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.

  • HERE AND NOW

    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.

  • EVERYBODY

    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.

  • CANVAS

    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.

  • From Newbury With Love

    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.

  • COLOUR BLIND FAITH

    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.

  • THE IDIOT COLONY

    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.

  • MEASLES

    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.

  • The Secret Policeman’s Ball

    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. StarringJimmy Fallon, Sarah Silverman et al.