Name: Martin Figura: Shed
Start: 2026-02-15T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Norwich Arts Centre

A multi-media theatre piece commission by Théâtre Volière. Shed is set on the Suffolk Coast, facing mainland Europe at our most eastern point beyond which lay terror, but also hopes for future adventure and a better World.
Shed was originally intended to premiere at The Library Theatre London in 2020, but Lockdown got in the way. Later that year, I performed a showcase at Norwich Arts Centre to a ‘socially distanced’ audience. In 2024 I performed at Ink Festival and Cockpit Theatre London and in March 2025 at the StAnza International Poetry Festival. In early 2026 it finally gets to tour, with dates shown on the Gigs page.
Jack was born at the exact moment Bolton Wanderer’s first goal hit the West Ham net in the very first Wembley Cup Final. He loves buses, the sea, hoarding and telling small lies. In the final hour of his life the boundaries between fantasy and reality blur. He offers up the small downfall of his life; recounts the loss of his father and his bold young evacuee French wife in World War Two.
After her death, Jack retreated into a private constructed world in a shepherd’s hut on the Suffolk coastal marsh. He’s watched over by crows, has the companionship of a mollycoddled butterfly and a spider he doesn’t quite trust. He finds solace in obsessive ritual and hoarding of totems and keepsakes drawn from a sometimes-imagined life.