ragina caeli 

21Common Co-Directors: Lucy Gaizely and Gary Gardiner
Dramaturg: Nic Green
Pall Bearers: Althea Young and Raedie Gaizely-Gardiner
Production Manager: Craig Fleming
Lighting Designer: Michaella Fee
Scenographer / Set Designer: Jenny Booth
Creative Technologist / AV Designer: Dav Bernard
Sound Designer: Calum Paterson
Stage Manager / Technician: Holly Wright
Associate Choreographer: Althea Young
BSL Interpreter: Karen Forbes
21Common Associate Artist: Ian Johnston
21Common Executive Director: Louise Irwin



Project Date - October 2025
Location - Tramway T4

More Info - Regina Caeli explores a life lived together; framed by funeral rituals, a dodgy children’s choir and the music of Eric Carmen.

Artist Lucy Gaizely asks Gary Gardiner, her partner of 23 years, to collaborate in crafting a posthumous finale for her recently deceased Father, an activity which also maps the trajectory of their relationship. What follows is an eruptive dissection of time-served love. Regina Caeli questions how we hold each other’s fragility, grow together, and endure hard things and asks whether love is just a choreographed set of virtuosic movements carrying us from birth to death.