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About Us

THE COLLECTIVE CREATION OF MYTHS

We are an Edinburgh-based collective of emerging theatre-makers eager to shape the future of Scottish theatre. We have been creating gut-punching theatre since 2021 and are committed to breaking down barriers for young and emerging artists in the performing arts.

Mythography unearth myths of the past and imagines myths of the future through wild rewritings and new translations. Rooted in the fabric of our shared humanity and the practice of adaptation, our work builds bridges between cultures, languages and eras, allowing stories rip through the fabric of time and place to reach audiences here and now.


WE MAKE ART THAT IS RAW, IRREVERENT AND ADVENTUROUS.

We perform for everyone and value ensemble work and large casts. We asks questions without answers and explore stories that will resonate and unite us in a divided world.

Each production is a chance for us to experiment with electric combinations of genres and different currents of theatrical language and style. We happily blend the sublime and the ridiculous, the tragic and the farce.

Meet The Team

Philomène Cheynet

Creative Director

I’m a multicultural and bilingual director and theatre-maker based in Edinburgh. I studied humanities, languages and literature in Paris, before completing a post-graduate diploma in Directing at Edinburgh Napier University. I'm the creative director behind Mythography Collective, an Edinburgh-based grassroots company which amplifies young voices through bold reimaginings of myths, building bridges between languages, cultures, and eras to challenge the limits of our world.

My past work includes directing a three year cycle of Fringe shows, the “Triptych of the young girl”, a three-part journey through myth in search of the elusive and dangerous figure of the young girl. I aim to create work that is raw, irreverent and adventurous, work that inspires wonder and challenges the status quo.

I like subverting expectations and playing around with form, happily bending the sublime and the ridiculous, the tragic and the farce. I draw from my love of language and text to transfigure images, rhythms, and sounds into living vessels for magnetic performance in the space and body.


Philomene Cheynet

People We Work With

Cameron Broadley

Actor, Assistant Director, Musician

Clare Robinson

Actor

Angus Morrison

Actor

Gabriel Bird

Actor

Giulia Barp

Actor

Jamie Stewart

Actor

Noah Sarversvaran

Actor

Ella Catherall

Producer, Technician

Joe Wiggin

Photographer, Videographer, Web designer, Technician

Jim Brandom

Composer, Sound designer

Trudy Kalvynaite

Writer, Theatre-maker, painter

Our Committee

Trudy Kalvynaite

Co-chair

Joe Wiggin

Co-chair

Kristjan Gudjonsson

Treasurer

Jemima Jayne

Secretary

Mythography is a not-for-profit unincorporated association.

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