Overview
“Beauty, to us physicists, is something we’ve never seen before”.
A PhD student hunting dark matter collides with
- A disillusioned illusionist
- A teenage medium with a secret
- A murdered mathematician
- A trail-blazing astronomer
Together, they investigate the greatest unsolved mystery of the universe. Aether explores physics, faith, and magic in rich theatrical spectacle to uncover humanity’s insatiable fascination with the unknown.
The “Best Theatre Show of the Fringe” (The Telegraph) makes its London debut, hot off a sold-out run in Edinburgh. Emma Howlett (one of The Stage’s Fringe Five) writes and directs.
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People
Gemma Barnett
Ensemble
Ensemble
Winner of Best Solo Performer OFFIE for A Hundred Words for Snow (Trafalgar Studios). Credits include the award-winning Revenge: After the Levoyah (Soho Theatre) and Bridge (BBC/Kusini Productions).
Sophie Kean
Ensemble
Ensemble
Sophie is an actor and theatre-maker from London. Recent credits include My Master Builder (dir. Michael Grandage, Wyndham’s Theatre), and TheatreGoose’s Her Green Hell (Theatre Royal Bath).
Abby McCann
Ensemble
Ensemble
Abby is a Scottish actor and recipient of the Juliet Bernard Memorial Prize. Recent stage credits include the solo play Looking For Giants (King’s Head, 2025).
Anna Marks Pryce
Ensemble
Ensemble
Anna is a Londoner with Jewish heritage and 2024 Mountview graduate, training as an actor, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and working across the UK and in Europe.
Emma Howlett
Writer and Director
Writer and Director
Ellie Wintour
Set and Costume Designer
Set and Costume Designer
Ed Saunders
Lighting Designer
Lighting Designer
Sarah Spencer
Composer and Sound Designer
Composer and Sound Designer
Media
“You feel your mind expand in real time”
The Telegraph
“[Howlett] spins her ideas with a dazzling lightness of touch.”
The Guardian
“A funny, slick, and fiendishly clever patchwork story”
The Times
“It is stunningly intellectual - Stoppardian, even - and staged with such thrilling, thoughtful and theatrical verve.”
The Stage
