We work in many different artforms - from theatre and dance, film and digital projects, books and publications to installations and public art.
Fevered Sleep was established in 1996 by artistic directors Sam Butler and David Harradine.
All our work is made in collaboration with people outside the company, and participation is at the heart of everything we do. We see our creative process as a kind of research: a way to investigate and reimagine the complex and challenging world in which we live.
We’ve worked with performers, designers, artists, scientists, doctors, teachers, vets, philosophers, social workers, all sorts of other adults and many, many children.
We invent new kinds of spaces which invite people to come together and share their experiences of things that matter.
Our projects have appeared in London, across the UK and internationally. Sometimes we work with theatres, galleries and festivals such as Leeds2023, The Young Vic, Sadler’s Wells, Tate Britain, The Whitworth and Sydney Opera House. Sometimes we turn up in other places where people work, learn and live, most recently at Clifton Green Primary School in York, St George’s Shopping Centre in Preston and Roundhay Park in Leeds.
We’re trying to make the world a more caring, curious, compassionate place, one unlikely art project at a time.
Sam Butler & David Harradine, co-artistic directors of Fevered Sleep
The Fevered Sleep team in our office at Bethnal Green, 2023
Fevered Sleep never underestimates the imaginative intelligence of a small child.
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