Echolocation
The first public workshop presentation of the 2025-26 Stiles & Drewe Mentorship Prize Winner.
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.
A strictly limited number of tickets for this workshop presentation will be released for public sale.
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).
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.
The first public workshop presentation of the 2025-26 Stiles & Drewe Mentorship Prize Winner.
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.
Main House
26 June 2:00PM
Performance time:
Fri – 2.00pm
Ticket prices: £5
Please be advised this performance will take place in low light.
The main entrance, both our auditoriums and our bar are wheelchair accessible. We also have 2 accessible toilets. Guide dogs and hearing dogs are welcome in the auditorium. There is a Loop system and a Radio Frequency system fitted in the auditorium and there are also hearing loops available at the Box Office. Please see our Accessibility Guidance and please feel free to contact our access team access@theotherpalace.co.uk should there be anything else we can do to make your visit more comfortable.
Gallery
Video
Cast
Creative Team
Sam Norman
Book and Lyrics
Eliza Randall
Music
Alie B. Gorrie
Disability Inclusion Consultant
Sam Hooper
Director
Maryann Wright
Producer and Dramaturg
Produced by Mercury Musical Developments with Stiles & Drewe and Maryann Wright Productions
This production continues to support the new writing development fund at The Other Palace. 50p from each ticket sold on all future productions in the main house, will be allocated to a ringfenced fund specifically to support the development of new writing and emerging playwrights.
Full details of the first open call and details on how to apply will be announced later this year. See for more information here.