TwoCan Theatre Company and Strike A Light are hosting an exclusive sharing of new work in progress by Artists in Residence Karis Crimson and Nathalie Codsi.
Over the past five months, Gloucestershire based artists, Karis and Nathalie have been part of TwoCan’s very first Artist in Residence Programme. During this time they have had the opportunity to develop an exciting new piece, with the support of Strike A Light and Gloucester Guildhall.
This intimate sharing offers a unique opportunity to experience the early stages of their work and gain insight into their creative process.
THE ARTIST’S AND THEIR WORK
The Mourning House by Karis Crimson
Nerathe (Marrow (Laura Ashcroft) builds what cannot truly be spoken. Each structure she designs becomes a vessel for grief and the foundations laid with the weight of mothers and daughters who came before her. As she shapes space, she confronts the quiet architecture of her own lineage: the ways love, duty, and silence are passed down, stone by stone, woman to woman.
The Mourning House is part of an umbrella project called “Let The Bones Remember, Let The Body Believe It” a series of stories all surrounding living grief and love.
Karis is a Cheltenham-based mixed media creative whose work is rooted in mythic storytelling. Through sound, written word and movement, explores memory, inheritance and intergenerational survival examining how the choices of those who came before us continue to reverberate through body and soul.
Marianne (Working title) by Nathalie Codsi
Nathalie is a theatre maker of Lebanese/Armenian and Italian heritage. This work in progress focuses on a non-linear journey that investigates intergenerational trauma, exploring these lasting effects and what is passed down through family generations. Includes live sound, clowning, movement, text and… some dancing.
Created by Nathalie Codsi, with live sound from Simon Roth and dramaturgy by Jenny Davies.
Nathalie is a theatre artist working across stage, film and television. She is primarily a deviser specialising in physical and ensemble-based theatre. Nathalie trained at Le Coq in Paris and co-founded theatre company Spilt Ink.
WHEN
- Tuesday 26 May 2026
- 3pm – 4.30pm (includes a 15 minute interval and a Q&A with Nathalie)
WHERE
- GASP studios, Level 1, Eastgate Shopping Centre, Gloucester, GL1 1PA
Money
This event is FREE. Tickets are currently not available, however if you would like to join our waiting list please email info@strikealight.org.uk
ACCESS
- The venue is wheelchair accessible with lift access to the upper floors
- There is a gender neutral toilet, gender specific toilets and an accessible toilet available. There is also a changing places toilet available quite close by in Kings Walk shopping centre.
- There are 20 blue badge parking spaces available at Eastgate Shopping Centre Car Park, with 3 hours free parking
- If you have any questions please get in touch with Jess, info@strikealight.org.uk
Content advice
Strong language, themes of trauma, death, grief, loneliness, loss of adult children, light suggestion of mental health issues within matrilineal structure.
Thanks and credits
TwoCan Artists in Residence scheme is supported by Strike A Light, Gloucester Guildhall, Arts Council England and The Barnwood Trust.
Thank you to GAS Projects for hosting the sharing.
Strike A Light 