Joanna Vymeris
Directing
Known For

After the death of her husband, Janet decides to distract herself by rearing a goose, which is to be the centrepiece of her Christmas dinner. However, as she grows ever more isolated from her daughter, Janet’s need to nurture the goose becomes an obsession: one which will cost her dearly. A modern day Grimm’s fairy-tale about grief, isolation… and a goose.
Mother Goose

An old man is isolated in his home. Haunted by the loss of his beloved, he embarks upon a journey to return to her.
Return

This is a story about two siblings, thrown together again in the wake of their grandmother's death. Shell is gender transitioning - but older sister Jess wants everything to stay the same.
Shell

Alka is forced to confront the past and her dark power when she finds herself in the presence of two solitary witches.
Progeny
A re-framing both of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando, and of Potter’s film of the same name. Through song and dance, the new film will explore Orlando’s 400 year journey, with questions of class, race, sex, Britain’s imperialist history and what it means to be British now. In a departure from the original novel and film, a Black narrator and chorus will operate as a guide for the audience, bringing to light stories that were not told in the book and its adaptation.
Orlando, Now

East Anglia, 1584. When a young woman goes into labour a group of women, led by the local midwife, gather to guide her through the trials of labour. But as they celebrate the safe arrival of new life, a greater danger arrives at the door. A 16th century tale of community, power and resistance. Gossip tells the untold story of witches as they really were - midwives, healers, women with knowledge and power.
Gossip

Six drag kings embark on a moustache curling adventure to steal the Monument to Masculinity, a solid gold urinal, in a mad-cap attempt to keep their gentlemen’s club ‘KingDom’ afloat in times of economic peril.
KingDom

An elderly woman recollects and reconnects with her past as her memories fade back to her in the form of a dance; a dream, a nightmare.