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Millworks
for over sevens
Commissioned by the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival in July 1998
| Directors | Graeme Miller and Sue Buckmaster |
| Designer | Sophia Lovell Smith |
| Sound | Kate Tierney |
| Production Manager | Jane Mackintosh |
| Stage Manager | Anthony Sammut |
| Performers | Adam Bennett, Peter Savazon, Natasha Holmes, Isobel Cabalero, Buffy Cook |
An old tidal mill on Three Mills Island in Bow was the setting for Millworks, which looks at the cycle of life and death through the symbolic imagery of the milling process.
Each part of the process is represented by a puppet, from the cutting of the wheat right through to the making of bread.
The beautiful old wooden building creates a dream-like landscape where the ghosts from the past re-enact their daily rituals and each puppet is destroyed to signify the transformation of the next part of the process.