The Spoils is a collaboration between writer Steven Dykes and composer Paul Englishby, performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Sala El Granero Theatre in Cuenca, Spain, and as part of the “Grimeborn Festival” at the Arcola Theatre in 2009, and will be presented by the Potomac Theatre Project in New York in 2011. The documentation for this project will form the basis of a DVD on how new work is created, rehearsed, performed and reflected upon. The Spoils was further developed in a Simultaneous Performance Project, in collaboration with Trinity College of Music and Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, funded by Knowledge East.