A body is laid out on a candle-lit table. Time stands still.
Very slowly a glowing china cup floats its tea-and-sympathy ritual. A last cup of tea. Finality. The End.

Biting the Dust is a tender and beautiful examination of death and rebirth, an animated installation/performance using objects and puppetry to encompass and evoke dreams and memories of a life once lived.

Grist to the Mill have received Arts Council England funding to develop Biting the Dust which was presented in-progress for Punched at the Nightingale Theatre, December 2011 and subsequently commissioned for the Little Angel Theatre, London, where it premiered 24 March 2012.

It is the first solo show for adults from Grist to the Mill. Performed by Isobel Smith
There is no spoken dialogue.
(running time approx: 50 minutes)