SHO AND THE DEMONS OF THE DEEP

Supported by: Imaginate’s Launchpad artist scheme | Independent Arts Projects

Work in progress performed at Traverse Theatre, 2019, dir. Shilpa T Hyland.

Shō’s city has been plagued by nightmares for as long as she can remember, but hers are the worst of all. One day, Shō has had enough. She throws her nightmares away into the Clyde, where they wash out to sea. Soon people start copying her; the city is rid of its nightmares, and everyone is delighted. But sixty years later, when a deadly cost to this new method raises its head, Shō’s granddaughter Hana must journey to the ocean in order to save their city. A visual-adventure story about overcoming fear, climate crisis, and how the actions of one generation can affect the next. Inspired by the picture book of the same name by Annouchka Gravel Galouchko.