Missing

Missing is a deliciously warped journey into the depths of the human psyche.

Meet Lily, a woman whose soul appears to be decaying. She is very successful in life and love but something is missing…

Missing invites the audience to experience a series of extraordinary images, jaw-dropping choreography and a tantalising multilingual vocal landscape. The shadows of Lily’s past invite her, along with each audience member, to consider how far they have strayed from who they are and where they come from.

Missing is a truly universal theatrical experience. Since 2012 it has toured to Russia, China, Georgia, Malta, Colombia, Mexico, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, South Korea, Spain, Greece and across the UK.

★★★★ The Times
★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ The Telegraph
★★★★★ What’s On Stage
★★★★★ Broadway Baby

“You could see this show several times and gain something new from it each time... Gecko’s Missing is a fascinating, vivid piece of physical storytelling that will have a personal meaning for everyone who sees it.” ★★★★★

Catherine Sutherland, Bachtrack

 A Phoenix from the fire at Battersea Arts Centre

On Friday 13 March 2015, during a three week run at Battersea Arts Centre, Missing was completely destroyed in a fire which devastated the Grand Hall. With help from generous support from our audiences and industry up and down the country, we managed to completely rebuild the production in just eight days so we could go ahead with our tour of Mexico.

We won the National Stage Management Awards’ ‘Stage Management Team of the Year’ in 2015 for their response to the fire. 

The show returned to the Battersea Arts Centre in September 2018 to finish the run, as part of the Phoenix Season in the reborn Grand Hall.

 
 
  • Created by Amit Lahav
    Producer: Rosalind Wynn

    Performers:
    Lucia Chocarro, Miguel Hernando Torres Umba, Katie Lusby, Uroš Petronijević and John Ross

    Rehearsal Director: Ryen Perkins-Gangnes

    Design: Rhys Jarman and Amit Lahav
    Lighting Design: Chris Swain and Amit Lahav
    Original Music: Dave Price
    Associate Director: Rich Rusk
    Sound Design: Enzo Appetecchia
    Costume Supervisor: Amy Cook (original production) / Martin Goddard (2015 rebuild) / Becky-Dee Trevenen (2018)

    Original Devising Performers:
    Chris Evans, Anna Finkel, Ryen Perkins-Gangnes, Georgina Roberts, Bart Soroczynski

    Musicians: Dave Price, Ben Hales, Sam Burgess, Al Cherry and Finn Peters
    Solo Vocalist: Georgina Roberts

    During creation
    Devising Performers: Dai Tabuchi and Lotan Sapir

    Photographs by Robert Golden and Richard Haughton

  • For each of our current touring shows we have created a Sound World Information Sheet to enable D/deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audience members to understand the soundscape of each show and how it feeds into the other elements of our performances. Please read the information in advance of attending the show. Where possible we offer a BSL interpreted post show discussion in collaboration with our venue partners.

    Click here to download the Sound World of Missing (PDF)

  • ★★★★ The Times
    “Together they generate a tingling energy.” Donald Hutera

    ★★★★ The Guardian
    “A kind of restless delirium, dense with poetic effect.” Sanjoy Roy

    ★★★★ The Telegraph
    “Once you have been seduced by the sinuous rhythms of Amit Lahav’s production, it is hard not to be swept up in its strange, propulsive energy.” Ben Lawrence

    “An extraordinary aesthetic experience” El Heraldo del Henares

    ★★★★★ What’s On Stage
    Bristol, Edinburgh, Newcastle
    “With this flawless production, Gecko have created a wonderful, beautiful roller coaster ride into the murky world of memory.” Moira Hunt

    ★★★★★ Bachtrack
    “You could see this show several times and gain something new from it each time. . . . Gecko’s Missing is a fascinating, vivid piece of physical storytelling that will have a personal meaning for everyone who sees it.” Catherine Sutherland

    ★★★★★ The Skinny
    “The choreography is bewitching.” Callum Madge

    ★★★★★ Broadway Baby
    “The depth of human experience covered in the play was extensive: dysfunction, loneliness, love, rage, loss, pain, hope, fear, redemption – all executed with intensity and elegance. Enigmatic, unique, frightening and breathtaking, missing Missing should be avoided at all costs.” Isla VT

  • 2019
    Oxford Playhouse, Oxford, UK
    Teatro Principal, Valencia, Spain
    NST Campus, Southampton, UK
    Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham, UK

    2018
    York Theatre Royal, York, UK
    Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK
    Forest Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece

    2017
    Festival d’Otoño à Primavera, Madrid, Spain

    2016
    Tianqiao Performance Art Centre (Lyric Theatre), Beijing, China (presented by the Edinburgh Fringe Showcase in China)
    Yongqian Theatre, Hangzhou, China (presented by the Edinburgh Fringe Showcase in China)
    George Town Festival, Penang, Malaysia
    Uijeongbu Music Theatre Festival, South Korea

    2015
    Shaung Wan Civic Centre, Hong Kong
    Macao Cultural Centre, Macao, China
    Mexico City & Guadalajara, Mexico
    Teatro Principal, Puebla, Mexico (in partnership with Anglo Arts and British Council Mexico as part of UK/Mexico year of culture)
    Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK

    2014
    Platonov Arts Festival, Voronezh, Russia (presented by the Chekhov International Theatre Festival)
    Pyotr Fomenko’s Workshop Theatre, Moscow, Russia (presented by the Chekhov International Theatre Festival)
    Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London, UK (as part of London International Mime Festival)
    Ibero-American Theatre Festival of Bogotà, Colombia
    Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre, Poland (as part of the opening British Week)
    Shanghai Grand Theatre (Lyric Theatre), Shanghai, China (presented by the Edinburgh Fringe Showcase in China)
    Wuhan Zhongnan Theatre, Wuhan, China (presented by the Edinburgh Fringe Showcase in China)
    Shixia Theater Hall, Futian Cultural Hall, Shenzhen, China (presented by the Edinburgh Fringe Showcase in China)
    Zijn Grand Theatre, Nanjing, China (presented by the Edinburgh Fringe Showcase in China)

    2013
    The Grand, Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh, UK
    Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre, Georgia
    Derby Theatre, UK
    Bristol Old Vic, UK

    2012
    Zigzuazag Festival, Valletta, Malta
    Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK
    Northern Stage, Newcastle, UK
    NST Campus, Southampton, UK
    New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, UK
    Lighthouse, Poole, UK
    The Place, London, UK
    Contact Theatre, Manchester, UK
    Plymouth Theatre Royal, Plymouth, UK

Support

Supported by Arts Council England and Ipswich Borough Council. Co-commissioned by New Wolsey Theatre in association with Warwick Arts Centre and DanceEast.

Ideas originally developed with Kanopy Dance and the University of Wisconsin.