A Stable Home Livestream

March 28th 2008. Joan meets god in the eyes of a dying sheep on a railway track, a ghost that will haunt her new life.

Trapped in a Storybook world of Cardboard, Puppets and Banjos, Joan is fighting for a blossoming new love with local girl Billie, desperately trying to ignore the looming paranoia from her unstable land lady Mrs V and the gruesome, gut-wrenching guilt of taking creatures out of their misery.

Will God forgive her, or more importantly, will she forgive God?

Winner of the Space Launchpad Award 2025

Brought to you by Novem Ensemble, Bud Potter and Nia Brooks bring their original professional Debut.

Writer: Bud Potter
Director: Nia Brooks
Intimacy coordinator: Jess Tucker-boyd
R&D Puppetry advisor: Helen Foan

Performers:
Lillith Freeman – Joan
Samantha Begeman – Mrs V / Barmaid
Alfie Thompson-Brown – Robin/Collin
Bud Potter – Billie
Lou Bristow-Bell – The Puppeteer
Inês Santos Belmonte – The Stage Hand / Ed

Novem Ensemble are a new creative cooperative dedicated to devising new and exciting work in theatre, art and film. We specialise in the innovative, funny, truthful and collaborative. We are graduates of East 15’s Contemporary Theatre course, and have had our original work performed at the Kings Head, with Shorties Film network and now the Space Theatre.

“Incredibly strong and exceptional ensemble of artists, with a huge collective of skills”
– Uri Roodner