Mixed up lives and scrambled stories
Tiny scratch plays created by Islington Youth Theatre, Work in Progress and the Oracle Project
1st and 3rd July 2010, Pleasance Theatre Islington
A pack of cyclists with blood on their spokes.
Five school girls (or is it 15?) pregnant at the same time.
A gang of children hunting for a vampire.
A girl who only talks to a tape recorder.
In preparation for a new season of high quality, exciting work by young people, Tangled was a festival of mixed up lives and scrambled stories.
Our 3 main young companies gathered to perform 12 new plays about what happens when humans make choices together: mass hysteria, collective action and pacts. Each scratch play was presented as a work in development.
Islington Youth Theatre
THE PACT
Created by the company
With Tanya Ronder & Ned Glasier
The Pact has been one of IYT’s most challenging and, at times, difficult projects. For the last six months we’ve been exploring the incredible story of an alleged American high school pregnancy pact and trying to find a way to transpose it to life in a London school. Progress has been at times really exciting, at others slow and frustrating. We all agree it’s a wonderful, captivating story, but it’s also full of pitfalls and we’re still working hard on how best to fully do justice to it.
Performers: Aaron Miller, Aidan Robertson, Aisha Issahaku-Ajona, Antoine Bertin-Azille, Carolyn Palmer-Marshall, Daniel Adekitan, Diego Alejandro, Heaven Yemane, Jemima Issahaku-Ajona, Kai Blyth-Foster, Louis Clarke, Millie Law, Mirela Gega, Phoebe Burrows, Robert Ristic, Rossano Dias, Sammy Amokrane, Sean Dottin, Sophie Thomas, Sophie Smith, Tolu Ayeyemi
IYT Co-ordinator: Natasha Jones
Assistant Director: Esther Uwejeyah
Mentors: Daniel O’Keefe, Rackeama Reid-Akbar
Work in Progress
THE WISDOM OF CROWDS
Created by the company
With Anne Tipton and Ned Glasier
The Wisdom of Crowds has been created using the skills and ideas given to members of Work in Progress in a long succession of professional workshops led by theatre-makers from across the industry. These short pieces have been inspired by the Wisdom of Crowds theory and examples of mass hysteria across the world.
Performers: Alex Kampfner, Calvin Dickson, Cataliana Zuliani, Dayna Kellman, Daniel Rickler, Daniel O’Keefe, Ehireme Omoaka, Eliza Gearty, Hauk Pattison, Hayley Thomas, Jake Head, Jasmin Alvarez, Juliana Magwambasa, Kered Figaro, Kwami Odoom, Rackeama Reid-Akbar, Rochelle Rose, Roman Dawson, Shanice Stennett, Shekiera Martin, Truchelle Carthy.
The IAMS Oracle Project
THE YELLOW-HEARTED BUTTERFLY SPOOK CIRCUS
Created in collaboration with Leander Deeney, directed by Ella Macfadyen and Laura Keefe
A girl who won’t speak and a circus of performers who are too scared to entertain their audience. The Yellow Hearted Butterfly Spook Circus has been inspired by stories of young people who have selective mutism and by the ideas and writing of the reknowned children’s author Leander Deeney.
Performers: Adi Abdiu, Alice Osborne, Avigela Abdiu, Jahmai Allen, Jordan Rio Rochester, Kofi Odoom, Lily Dickson, Quiena Bowen, Ruma Begum, Sama Aunallah, Sophie Crook, Seun Ajayi, Tom Proctor, Ullysses Robb-Price, Yaamin Chowdhury
Assistant Director: Rochelle Ros
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