The untold stories and histories of St Pauls inspire duppy hunter - a new audio immersive smartphone adventure from coney and Tamasha Theatre company, in partnership with Trinity Community arts.
Tamasha Theatre Company, celebrated for telling stories from the global majority, once again joins forces with BAFTA award-winning game designers Coney to present DUPPY HUNTER: A LOCALS GUIDE TO ST PAULS, BRISTOL, in partnership with Trinity Community Arts. Inspired by interviews with the local people of Bristol and their memories, Duppy Hunter is an audio walking adventure experienced on a mobile phone, and the third in Tamasha and Coney’s Ends & Tales series.
Bubbling with magical realism, audiences are invited to help fictional character, Josie (played by Nadia Williams - I’m Not Running (2019), Broadchurch (2013)), track down a duppy that has become loose in St Pauls. Josie is from a line of obeah women priestesses that have fulfilled the role of duppy hunters, who hunt for duppies that are trying to capture human souls to walk the earth and leave a host open to future possessions. Through helping Josie to solve the riddles the duppy leaves on its trail, the adventure will take audiences past Stapleton Road and Pennywell Road and crossing the Danny, before heading onto to St Pauls. Promising to conjure up nostalgia and a Bristol of yore, audiences will be immersed in stories unfolding through their headphones.
Produced by Tamasha’s Digital Producer Tuyet Van Huynh, Duppy Hunter is written by writer and academic, Dr Edson Burton (Armour of Immanuel (2007), The Chosen One (2009), Deacon (2017), BBC Radio 4). Directed by Hanna Adu-Boateng, it will feature music by Composer Courtney Beckford, with Sound Design by Jake Gaule with local producing support from Trinity’s Stefan Boakye.
Dr Edson Burton, writer of Duppy Hunter “The joy and challenge of writing Duppy Hunter lies in bringing together elements of walking tour, promenade theatre, and game, but at the heart of this adventure is a touching intergenerational story.”
Tuyet Van Huynh, Digital Producer of Tamasha: “The purpose for a project like Duppy Hunter and many others that sit under the series of Ends & Tales is to work with local communities across the UK and make connections with them and the area they have called and/or still call home. Choosing St Pauls in Bristol for the next iteration was easy; it is rich with history, stories and characters that are yet to be explored in this form. We wanted to collaborate with Trinity Community Arts, so we were excited that they too were interested and have really enjoyed seeing the amazing work they have pulled together with the creatives and community for this instalment.”
Stefan Boakye, Community Producer of Trinity Community Arts “I am very excited to working on this project uncovering the hidden stories of the many voices who make up the vibrant communities of St Paul’s.”
Duppy Hunter is presented by Ends & Tales: a series of immersive smartphone adventures on foot by Coney and Tamasha. Previous adventures have included uncovering the untold stories of the Bangladeshi community in London’s Brick Lane and Chinese community in Liverpool’s Chinatown.
Duppy Hunter begins at the Trinity Centre (BS2 0NW). Participants will be navigated through and around St Pauls, on a journey that lasts 50-90 minutes.
Show run: 3 – 29 October 2023
Press launch: 4 October 2023, 5pm
Booking at www.tamasha.org.uk / Tickets: Pay What You Can
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