The first public workshop presentation of the 2025-26 Stiles & Drewe Mentorship Prize Winner.
About Echolocation:
Teenagers Ethan and Sadie are best friends who seem to have nothing in common. He’s an athlete, she’s an intellectual. He’s poor, she’s rich. His dad is out of the picture, her family is ridiculously overprotective. He’s sighted, she’s blind. When Ethan discovers his father’s existence via a DNA test, the pair set off on a road trip to Yellowstone – but there’s more to their journey than meets the eye. Echolocation is a musical performed in near-darkness.
Creatives:
SAM NORMAN (Book/Lyrics)
ELIZA RANDALL (Music)
ALIE B. GORRIE (Disability Inclusion Consultant)
SAM HOOPER (Director)
MARYANN WRIGHT (Producer and Dramaturg)
Cast:
Rachel Michelle Jones
Harry Chandler
Echolocation has been developed in the UK thanks to the generous support of Arts Council England, the MTI Stiles + Drewe Mentorship Award, and Theatre Royal Plymouth.
Sensory Notice & Content Warnings: Please be advised this performance will take place in low light.
Sam Norman and Eliza Randall are the current recipients of the 2025-26 Stiles + Drewe Mentorship Award, a year-long development programme for a new musical, culminating in this full-length industry presentation. The Award was launched in 2016 by the multi award-winning musical theatre writing partnership George Stiles and Anthony Drewe (Honk!, Mary Poppins, Betty Blue Eyes, Half A Sixpence, Identical), is managed by Mercury Musical Developments and is generously supported by Music Theatre International (Europe).