Ragnarok (2019-2024)

Venue: Scottish Tour
Company: Tortoise in a Nutshell and Figurteatret i Nordland in association with Macrobert Arts Centre

Director (2024): Alex Bird
Director (2019): Ross Mackay and Arran Howie
Designer: Arran Howie
Composer: Jim Harbourne
Dramaturg: Nicola McCartney
Assistant Artist: Melanie Francis

Production Manager (2024): Elle Taylor
Production Manager (2019): Fiona Fraser
Technical Manager (2024): Josh Brown
Technical Manager (2019): Andy Gannon

Photographer: Mihaela Bodlovic

a modern oratorio in sound and vision, that breaks the heart, and challenges the conscience.

Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman

Simon Wilkinson’s precise lighting is intrinsic to the success of the whole production

Thom Dibdin, All Edinburgh Theatre

Howie’s design and Simon Wilkinson’s lighting are painstakingly supported by composer Harbourne’s live music, singing and pre-recorded narrative cues. It’s a unique piece, built around superlative visuals and choreography

David Pollock, The Stage

Dry mist and clever lighting also play key roles [….] a micro camera surveys fluorescent rubble, looming, glowing huge on the projection screen before alternately cutting to stick figures with flesh flailing, […] Picasso’s Guernica made flesh.

Greg Holstead, North West End

Ragnarok is, surely, one of the most ­original, technically accomplished and brilliantly ­realised pieces of theatre to be created for the Scottish stage in recent times."

Mark Brown, The Sunday National

Visually, Ragnarok is a marvel [ … ] sheer technical mastery.

Isy Santini, The List

a deeply moving story of despair and hope, of human power at the mercy of greater forces, told with unforgiving clarity through image and sound, and delivered with enormous restraint and subtlety.

David Kettle, The Arts Desk

A form-defining production

Dominic Corr, Corr Blimey