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Little Bulb started out at the University of Kent where its members, strung across different years, collaborated for the first time on Crocosmia, a devised piece exploring the memories (both joyous and tragic) of three precocious siblings through their parent's record collection.
The show premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2008 and went on to win Fringe First, Total Theatre and Arches Brick awards as well as touring extensively both home and abroad. In 2009 Little Bulb returned to Edinburgh as the resident company of the Forest Fringe performing Sporadical: the epic folk opera and in 2010 with Operation Greenfield which was awarded the Herald Angel.
Operation Greenfield returned once more to the theme of growing up this time focusing on the lives of teenagers, rather than children, in a small fictional village. The piece was also a study of faith and friendship and the most ambitious exploration so far on the interplay between music and theatre.
That same year they were commissioned by Farnham Maltings to create a new show for village hall touring for which they made The Marvellous and Unlikely Fete of Little Upper Downing: a raucous folk extravaganza which has since toured to village halls all over England.
For the 2011 Fringe music became the entire focus as Little Bulb presented Goose Party an experimental free set of bizarre compositions and genre fusions performed by their alter ego band.
Since forming in 2008 Little Bulb Theatre have gone on to create a diverse body of work encompassing larger scale theatre pieces, small intimate experiments in dimly lit caverns and much else in between.
Little Bulb Theatre c/o Farnham Maltings
Bridge Square
Farnham
Surrey
GU9 7QR
nfo@littlebulbtheatre.com
http://www.littlebulbtheatre.com/
Here are few videos reflect some of their work.