Completely guaranteed to make you sob
- Natasha Tripney, The Guardian
(pick of the Fringe)
Gorgeously atmospheric, exquisitely lit, ear-tingling journey into the past and memory itself
- Lyn Gardner
STYX evokes a half-remembered song suddenly falling into a melody, with the people you love buried between the notes
- Kate Wyver, The Guardian
she must never look back, and you must never look back, and then you may go.
Bringing light to the experience of living and dying with Alzheimer’s, STYX is a theatre-concert telling the true story of a grandmother and grandson piecing together the memories that connect them across time. Weaving together riotous songs, intimate storytelling and a journey through the neuroscience of memory, the show reveals the extraordinary power music has to reignitefading memories.
STYX was premiered at the Fringe World festival in Perth in January 2019, where it won a Fringe Weekly Award. STYX was nominated for a Total Theatre Award in the Emerging Company category at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2019, and transferred to London for runs at The Playground Theatre and Streatham Space Project.
The show returned to Perth to play to the 450-capacity Girl’s School venue in 2020. Its national tour of Britain was cancelled due to the pandemic, but a virtual tour took place in its stead, featuring live watch-alongs at 7 venues across the UK.
In 2021 a two-man version of the show was taken to Edinburgh with the support of Assembly, where it was chosen as a Guardian pick of the Fringe, and played to thousands of audience members.