Two hundred years ago, twenty-two miles out to sea, two men live and work in a wooden box fifteen feet across, seventy feet above the dark ocean…

Using little more than a ladder and a pair of creaky chairs, two performers and a musician conjure up the confines of the infamous Smalls Lighthouse, and the remarkable true-story it guards.

A tale of companionship and loss unfolds over the slow passing of days, and in the sweeping flashes of the lamp that the keepers tend each and every night.

We saw a work-in-progress showing of The Keepers at Theatre Bristol and the Tobacco Factory’s Prototype event and immediately spotted that The Plasticine Men were theatre-makers who could tell a damn good story in a simple but captivating way.

The company are associate artists of New Greenham Arts, and supported by The Nightingale Theatre Brighton and the Tobacco Factory/Theatre Bristol's Prototype Initiative.

www.theplasticinemen.co.uk

Read a Three Weeks review of the show here.

"Occassionally, a new play comes along that totally reinforces your faith in the magic of theatre and the Plasticine Men's impressive Keepers does just that." Read the full British Theatre Guide review of the show here