Last Seen, Lake Shore by Catherine Dyson

Catherine Dyson

Catherine is a writer and performer. For Theatr Iolo she has written and performs Transporter, a solo show for ages 10 to adult. She is Associate Artist for RedCape Theatre company with whom she writes and performs, most recently Thunder Road which is about to begin its second UK tour. Other writing credits include Be Brave And Leave For The Unknown (RedCape), and Light Waves Dark Skies (Chapter and Pontardawe Arts, co-written with Matt Ball). She has also written the short plays If We Were Fish (BBC Radio Wales), The Red Hair and Tupelo (Dirty Protest) and My Electric Soul (Sherman). Other work for young people includes Our Curiosities (a Located Residency with NTW), In Ruins (site specific performance for a young cast in Reading Abbey ruins) and Future Girls, a play commission from a school. She has an ongoing experimental performance collaboration with Tracy Harris. She was part of the Sherman New Welsh Playwrights Programme 2016 and the BBC Writersroom Welsh Voices 2018/19.  

Catherine is also one of Theatr Iolo’s Associate Artists.

Last Seen, Lake Shore

Writer: Catherine Dyson                 
Director: Hannah Noone

On a blazing hot summer’s day, fifteen-year-old Nicole walks out of school. The thought of not being allowed to wear make-up in her next lesson is too much – not to mention the snide comments that will inevitably come with it. But beneath the make-up, there’s something else going on - something much worse - and Nicole desperately needs to escape from it all.   

As she slips away, she’s spotted by Assia, a young teacher indulging her computer game habit in the empty staff room. Meantime in the film being screened on the other side of town, Sadie is also missing.  As Nicole's impulsive journey through her home town leads her to a cinema where the matinee is just about to start, and Assia raises the alarm back at school, the three strands of the story, and reality and fiction, begin to unravel.