Creative Team
Concept, Creating & Writing: John-William Watson Performance & Co-Creation: Beth Emmerson, Nya Bardouille, Magdalena Anna Górnikiewicz & Lara Peres Rocha Original Composition and Sound Design: Adam Vincent Clarke Lighting Design: Ryan Joseph Stafford Set & Costume Design: Joshua Cartmell Rehearsal Director and Creative Consultant: Jasmine Lily Norton Design and Creative Consultant: Joshua Cartmell Instrumentalists: Sarah Bayens (Violin), Miko Pablo (Cello), Markiyan Popil (Piano) Recording Engineer: Noah Senden Mixing & Mastering: Adam Vincent Clarke It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie Songwriter: Billy Mayhew It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie Recording Artists: The JazzMob It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie Mixing & Recording: Nicholas Thayer
In Hang in There, Baby, Watson & Co explore our relationship with destiny, fate and decision making from the depths of a new year’s office party. Toying with line between existential dread and kitschy-campness, this sci-fi dark comedy gets increasingly surreal as the monotony of corporate life dissolves into a ‘pac-man-esque office nightmare’.
With an original script infused with NOT TO BE REPRODUCED’s distinct flavour of absurd humour and an original score by Antwerp-based sound-artist and composer Adam Vincent Clarke, this sci-fi dark comedy marks a first in their collaboration with both original music and playwriting
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“Are you sick and tired of life? The constant decision making?The horrid dark abyss of uncertainty we call the future? Then boy do we have a solution for you.”
• ⁃ Richard Life - CEO and Director of Life & Stuff Incorporated
Hang in There, Baby, was originally commissioned by Sadler’s Wells in 2022 as John-William Watson’s final piece of work as a Young Associate Choreographer at the theatre. The work has since toured nationally throughout 2023, and was re-staged on a new cast of dancers at National Dance Company Wales in 2025.
