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Reassembled, Slightly Askew<\/em> is an autobiographical, immersive audio-based artwork based on Shannon Sickels\u2019 experience of falling critically ill with a rare brain infection and her journey of rehabilitation with an acquired brain injury. Audience members experience Reassembled individually, listening to the audio via headphones while lying on a bed. The piece makes use of binaural microphone technology and spatial sound design techniques, causing listeners to feel they are inside Shannon\u2019s head, viscerally experiencing her descent into coma, brain surgeries, early days in the hospital, and re-integration into the world with a hidden disability. It is a new kind of storytelling, never done before about this topic, that places the listener safely in the first-person perspective with the aim of increasing empathy and understanding.<\/p>\n

Reassembled\u2026 was made through a 5-year collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of artists led by Shannon Sickels (writer & performer), Paul Stapleton (composer & sound designer), Anna Newell (director), Hanna Slattne (dramaturgy), Stevie Prickett (choreography), and Shannon\u2019s consultant neurosurgeon and head injury nurse. It\u2019s development and production has been made possible with the support of a Wellcome Trust Arts Award, the Arts Council NI, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast\u2019s Metropolitan Arts Centre, and grants from the Arts & Disability Award Ireland scheme.<\/p>\n

In its 2015 premiere year, Reassembled had 99 shows across Northern Ireland, including at the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival (the MAC, Belfast) and BOUNCE Arts & Disability Forum Festival (Lyric Theatre, Belfast). It was awarded 5 stars in the Stage, a Hospital Club h100 Theatre & Performance Award, and been shared at medical conferences and trainings across the UK. It continues to be presented in diverse artistic and educational contexts, including as part of A Nation\u2019s Theatre Festival in 2016 at Battersea Arts Centre in London where it was given 4 star reviews in the Guardian, Time Out London and the Evening Standard, and at the Tiger Dublin Fringe 2016 where it was nominated for 3 awards including \u201cBest Design\u201d.<\/p>\n

Artistic Team
\nWriter:
\nShannon Yee (Sickels)
\nComposer\/Sonic Artist:
\nPaul Stapleton
\nDirector:
\nAnna Newell
\nDramaturg:
\nHanna Sl\u00e4ttne
\nChoreographer:
\nStevie Prickett<\/p>\n

Production Team
\nProducer:
\nShannon Sickels (Yee)
\nProject Evaluator:
\nAndrea Montgomery
\nPerformer\/NI Tour Manager:
\nStephen Beggs
\nVideo Production:
\nRichard Lavery<\/p>\n

Biomedical Advisory Team
\nConsultant Neurosurgeon:
\nMr Roy McConnell
\nHead Injury Liaison Nurse:
\nRoyal Victoria Hospital, Colin Williamson
\nBelfast HSCT<\/p>\n

Performers:
\nShannon Sickels, Mary Moulds, Dorieann McKenna, Miche Doherty, Matilde Meireles, Anna Newell, Mary Jordan, Rosie McClelland, Dermott Hickson, Hanna Sl\u00e4ttne, Paul Stapleton, Paddy Buchanan, Maria Connolly, Matt Faris, Maggie Cronin, Stevie Prickett, Shaun Blaney, Isobel Anderson, Katharine Phillipa Holland<\/p>\n

Audio trailer, listen with headphones!
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