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        • FLAT
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        • Last Friday Night: A Katy Perry Musical
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          • Macbeth Studios
          • Pyramus and Thisbe
        • The Grey Area Festival 2019
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        • Najma's Fall
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        • A Tale of Two Parties!
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        • Bull
        • Papa Goose
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        • Auto-Nation
        • If I Die On Mars
        • At This Stage
        • Rock'n'Roll Girls
      • Pictland (ACT 2 FESTIVAL)
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      • 24 Hour Festival 2017
      • A METHOD IN THE MADNESS Festival
        • The Dining Room
        • Love Potion No. 9
        • FractaL
        • Endgame
      • A Christmas Carol-ish
      • Shakespeare Festival
        • A Night of Mechanicals
        • Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
        • i am the man?
        • Elsignored
      • New Writers' Festival
        • Polar
        • Stealth
        • And the Winters Cannot Fade Her
        • The Sound of Smoke
        • Spelunkers
      • Anything Goes 2018
      • Doorbell
      • The Premature Apocalypse
      • Don't Dress for Dinner
      • Blood and Ice
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        • Same Old Same Oldies
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        • Slight Delay
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        • Romeo and Lady Capulet
        • The Tempest
      • New Writers Festival 2017
        • Condolences
        • You Didn't Have To
        • When John Met Joseph
        • Cardboard City
        • Time Lapse
      • Spring Fling 2017
        • Mashed Potatoes
        • Down the Plughole
        • Party
        • A Musical (The Musical)
        • Talk to me like the Rain
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2017
        • Dead Men Tell No Tale
        • Space Dogs
        • WAGGO
        • Givin' It Some
    • 2015/16
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2016
        • Crapappella
        • Rotterz
        • iDolls
        • Monkhouse
      • London Edinburgh Fringe Previews
      • Spring Fling Charity Festival
        • Brains
      • Anything Goes Festival
      • JELLYFISH (ACT 2 Festival)
      • New Writers' Festival
        • Blind Mice
        • Toxicity
        • Bump
      • Shakespeare Festival
        • Twelfth Night
      • Den
      • Musical Festival
        • Twisted Testicles Festival
          • The Maids
          • Men Without Shadows
          • Dracula
          • Playhouse Creatures
      • 24 Hour Festival 2015
    • 2014/15
      • Mnemonic
      • Gas
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2015
        • A Fistful of Hunny
        • D.I.M - Department of Ideal Matchmaking
        • HOUSEPLAY
        • ACOrN - A Crunch or None
    • 2013/14
      • Chocks Away
      • Epitasis
      • Riot Act
      • ...And Other Bitter Things
      • Our Shaun
      • Sweeney Todd
      • Othello
      • Coping
      • Monkeys & Typewriters
      • Old Gristle
      • Deprescos
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  • Committee Archive
    • Committee 2020-2021
    • Committee 2019-2020
  • Show Archive
    • 2020/21
      • The Scotsman
      • My Flatmate The Fish/Killer
      • Return to Sender
      • Can You Hear Me?
      • Time Zones
      • ACT II 2021
    • 2019/20
      • Sketch Fest 2019
      • Anything Goes 2019
        • King Mob
        • Things That Ooze Out of Me
        • Road
        • The Women Through The Window
      • Winter Musical 2019
      • 24 Hour Festival 2020
      • New Writers Festival 2020
        • The Last Of Them 2020
        • The Lover, The Father, The Innocent 2020
        • Taupe War 2020
        • If I Were A Sparrow 2020
        • Thirst 2020
        • White Linen, Grey Clouds 2020
    • 2018/19
      • 24 Hour Fest 2018
      • Pantomime 2018
      • Anything Goes 2018
        • Postman vs. Milkman
        • Force D'Imaginer
        • Butterflies
        • FLAT
        • The Erl-King
        • Last Friday Night: A Katy Perry Musical
        • Shakespeare (& Friends) Festival 2019
          • Macbeth Studios
          • Pyramus and Thisbe
        • The Grey Area Festival 2019
          • 24 Hours
          • Ashes
          • The Door
          • Wake House
      • New Writers' Festival 2019
        • Biscuits
        • The Cabaret At The End Of The World
        • Najma's Fall
        • Hold On Me
        • She & Her
        • Late Night Live
      • Spring Fling Festival 2019
        • She is a Place Called Home
        • A Tale of Two Parties!
        • Cupcake
        • Bull
        • Papa Goose
      • Edinburgh Fringe Shows 2019
        • Auto-Nation
        • If I Die On Mars
        • At This Stage
        • Rock'n'Roll Girls
      • Pictland (ACT 2 FESTIVAL)
    • 2017/18
      • 24 Hour Festival 2017
      • A METHOD IN THE MADNESS Festival
        • The Dining Room
        • Love Potion No. 9
        • FractaL
        • Endgame
      • A Christmas Carol-ish
      • Shakespeare Festival
        • A Night of Mechanicals
        • Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
        • i am the man?
        • Elsignored
      • New Writers' Festival
        • Polar
        • Stealth
        • And the Winters Cannot Fade Her
        • The Sound of Smoke
        • Spelunkers
      • Anything Goes 2018
      • Doorbell
      • The Premature Apocalypse
      • Don't Dress for Dinner
      • Blood and Ice
      • Spring Fling 2018
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2018
        • A&E
        • Rat Race
        • Same Old Same Oldies
        • Deadline
    • 2016/17
      • 24 Hour Festival 2016
      • Location Location Location
        • Eve
        • Slight Delay
        • Another Country
        • Us and Them
        • Moonfleece
        • Made in Bangkok
      • Drapers: The Panto Musical
      • Shakespeare Festival 2017
        • Romeo and Lady Capulet
        • The Tempest
      • New Writers Festival 2017
        • Condolences
        • You Didn't Have To
        • When John Met Joseph
        • Cardboard City
        • Time Lapse
      • Spring Fling 2017
        • Mashed Potatoes
        • Down the Plughole
        • Party
        • A Musical (The Musical)
        • Talk to me like the Rain
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2017
        • Dead Men Tell No Tale
        • Space Dogs
        • WAGGO
        • Givin' It Some
    • 2015/16
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2016
        • Crapappella
        • Rotterz
        • iDolls
        • Monkhouse
      • London Edinburgh Fringe Previews
      • Spring Fling Charity Festival
        • Brains
      • Anything Goes Festival
      • JELLYFISH (ACT 2 Festival)
      • New Writers' Festival
        • Blind Mice
        • Toxicity
        • Bump
      • Shakespeare Festival
        • Twelfth Night
      • Den
      • Musical Festival
        • Twisted Testicles Festival
          • The Maids
          • Men Without Shadows
          • Dracula
          • Playhouse Creatures
      • 24 Hour Festival 2015
    • 2014/15
      • Mnemonic
      • Gas
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2015
        • A Fistful of Hunny
        • D.I.M - Department of Ideal Matchmaking
        • HOUSEPLAY
        • ACOrN - A Crunch or None
    • 2013/14
      • Chocks Away
      • Epitasis
      • Riot Act
      • ...And Other Bitter Things
      • Our Shaun
      • Sweeney Todd
      • Othello
      • Coping
      • Monkeys & Typewriters
      • Old Gristle
      • Deprescos

Ashes

Written and directed by Alice Hope Wilson

Picture

​CAST:
​
Robyn Bedford
Connor Mcphee
Andrew Atha
Lucy Tudor
Tabitha Purslow
Shakiba Shadman

Assistant Directed by Abi Fisher
Lighting by Jordan Bassett

​In 2010 the Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajökull, erupted, creating an ash cloud that covered most of Europe, stretched as far as Canada, and left over 10 million people stranded. Two twins lie on a trampoline staring up at a cloudless sky, imagining the ash above them.
One explosion. Two twins. Three stages of life.
This is a story about memory and how it changes; about the breaking point, the eruption and the destruction of everything taken for granted and what you thought you would be; about loving someone whilst hating them, but hating what they do to themselves even more; about grief and David Bowie and how no one knows the right thing to say, especially when you're young and stupid and hurting.

Photography by the wonderful Martha Lloyd

Email: company@qmtc.co.uk
Feel free to get in touch with us!

  • Home
  • Contact
  • What's on?
  • About Us
    • How To Find Us
  • Get Involved
    • Slappin' Da Bass
    • Memberships
  • Past QMTC Events
  • Committee Archive
    • Committee 2020-2021
    • Committee 2019-2020
  • Show Archive
    • 2020/21
      • The Scotsman
      • My Flatmate The Fish/Killer
      • Return to Sender
      • Can You Hear Me?
      • Time Zones
      • ACT II 2021
    • 2019/20
      • Sketch Fest 2019
      • Anything Goes 2019
        • King Mob
        • Things That Ooze Out of Me
        • Road
        • The Women Through The Window
      • Winter Musical 2019
      • 24 Hour Festival 2020
      • New Writers Festival 2020
        • The Last Of Them 2020
        • The Lover, The Father, The Innocent 2020
        • Taupe War 2020
        • If I Were A Sparrow 2020
        • Thirst 2020
        • White Linen, Grey Clouds 2020
    • 2018/19
      • 24 Hour Fest 2018
      • Pantomime 2018
      • Anything Goes 2018
        • Postman vs. Milkman
        • Force D'Imaginer
        • Butterflies
        • FLAT
        • The Erl-King
        • Last Friday Night: A Katy Perry Musical
        • Shakespeare (& Friends) Festival 2019
          • Macbeth Studios
          • Pyramus and Thisbe
        • The Grey Area Festival 2019
          • 24 Hours
          • Ashes
          • The Door
          • Wake House
      • New Writers' Festival 2019
        • Biscuits
        • The Cabaret At The End Of The World
        • Najma's Fall
        • Hold On Me
        • She & Her
        • Late Night Live
      • Spring Fling Festival 2019
        • She is a Place Called Home
        • A Tale of Two Parties!
        • Cupcake
        • Bull
        • Papa Goose
      • Edinburgh Fringe Shows 2019
        • Auto-Nation
        • If I Die On Mars
        • At This Stage
        • Rock'n'Roll Girls
      • Pictland (ACT 2 FESTIVAL)
    • 2017/18
      • 24 Hour Festival 2017
      • A METHOD IN THE MADNESS Festival
        • The Dining Room
        • Love Potion No. 9
        • FractaL
        • Endgame
      • A Christmas Carol-ish
      • Shakespeare Festival
        • A Night of Mechanicals
        • Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
        • i am the man?
        • Elsignored
      • New Writers' Festival
        • Polar
        • Stealth
        • And the Winters Cannot Fade Her
        • The Sound of Smoke
        • Spelunkers
      • Anything Goes 2018
      • Doorbell
      • The Premature Apocalypse
      • Don't Dress for Dinner
      • Blood and Ice
      • Spring Fling 2018
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2018
        • A&E
        • Rat Race
        • Same Old Same Oldies
        • Deadline
    • 2016/17
      • 24 Hour Festival 2016
      • Location Location Location
        • Eve
        • Slight Delay
        • Another Country
        • Us and Them
        • Moonfleece
        • Made in Bangkok
      • Drapers: The Panto Musical
      • Shakespeare Festival 2017
        • Romeo and Lady Capulet
        • The Tempest
      • New Writers Festival 2017
        • Condolences
        • You Didn't Have To
        • When John Met Joseph
        • Cardboard City
        • Time Lapse
      • Spring Fling 2017
        • Mashed Potatoes
        • Down the Plughole
        • Party
        • A Musical (The Musical)
        • Talk to me like the Rain
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2017
        • Dead Men Tell No Tale
        • Space Dogs
        • WAGGO
        • Givin' It Some
    • 2015/16
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2016
        • Crapappella
        • Rotterz
        • iDolls
        • Monkhouse
      • London Edinburgh Fringe Previews
      • Spring Fling Charity Festival
        • Brains
      • Anything Goes Festival
      • JELLYFISH (ACT 2 Festival)
      • New Writers' Festival
        • Blind Mice
        • Toxicity
        • Bump
      • Shakespeare Festival
        • Twelfth Night
      • Den
      • Musical Festival
        • Twisted Testicles Festival
          • The Maids
          • Men Without Shadows
          • Dracula
          • Playhouse Creatures
      • 24 Hour Festival 2015
    • 2014/15
      • Mnemonic
      • Gas
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2015
        • A Fistful of Hunny
        • D.I.M - Department of Ideal Matchmaking
        • HOUSEPLAY
        • ACOrN - A Crunch or None
    • 2013/14
      • Chocks Away
      • Epitasis
      • Riot Act
      • ...And Other Bitter Things
      • Our Shaun
      • Sweeney Todd
      • Othello
      • Coping
      • Monkeys & Typewriters
      • Old Gristle
      • Deprescos