Fact based, evidence led, no nonsense, no monsters. But when a photograph surfaces showing something in Loch Ness, she must embark on a very personal research project. The multi award-winning company Bucket Club create a "magical, melancholy world" (The List) featuring an extinct fish, a missing father, and breath-taking live electronic sound.
'A beautifully hewn story about how we connect to the past, and how our lives are shaped by the no-longer living things we carry with us... A gem of a piece by Bucket Club, a company taking its own very solid place in the world.' Total Theatre
'An object lesson in how to take a simple character-driven story and by sheer stagecraft to elevate it to another level of experience' - Fest
From the review in the NYT's https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/theater/review-a-search-for-dad-and-the-loch-ness-monster-in-fossils.html :
Bucket Club’s style mixes story theater and toy theater with both whimsy and rigor. The set consists of a couple of water tanks up front, along with a lot of plastic dinosaurs. At a mixing board in the back, the actors loop music and their own voices to make a wonderfully weirdo score, composed by the sound designer David Ridley. One instrument they use is a repurposed video game console that should have Léon Theremin giggling in his grave.
Under Nel Crouch’s direction, the performers manipulate stegosaurus figurines and act, score and narrate with scientific precision and obvious warmth. You probably don’t believe in the Loch Ness monster and you may not believe in “Fossils.” But you should have faith in these actors.
