Blending personal history, global events and the remains of a creative process, Journey’s End Working Title tells a highly individual story - a story about language, about growing up, about making sense, about making art.

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Journey’s End Working Title is a collaborative project developed by Neil Mackenzie, Mole Wetherell and Phoebe Woodbridge, and framed as an encounter with Mole’s personal and professional life story and examples from his archive of drawings developed during, and alongside, his lifelong practice of theatre making. Employing strategies that ensure the piece is accessible for people who are deaf or have hearing loss, as well as people who are blind or visually impaired, the work asks questions about how art is accessed, in what ways art is meaningful, and how an ongoing artistic practice might continue to speak to diverse new audiences today.

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The project remains in development, and will be available for touring in 2025/26.

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Mole Wetherell is a visual artist and performance maker, based in Gent in Belgium, and the artistic director of Reckless Sleepers, the company he founded in 1988.

Neil Mackenzie is a Manchester based theatre maker, lecturer and curator, previously artistic director of Plane Performance, and curator of the Flare International Festival of New Theatre and the Future Flares Festival. Mole and Neil last worked together as artists in 2007 on After Dubrovka, a sound installation for theatre stages and auditoria.

Phoebe Woodbridge is a Birmingham based performer and theatre maker, currently working with Ardent8 Theatre Company, whose practice explores the audience’s role in performance and the creative process, encouraging inclusivity, accessibility, discussion and engagement.