Play Inside: Other Mothers
/ Arts / Commissioned by Arts Council England / A collaboration with WeRebel /
Launching mid November 2020. Have you ever wondered what goes on next door? How different and parallel lives play out, overlap and intertwine? How the drama of other people’s lives unfolds? Play Inside is a powerful new way to experience performance…and to glimpse into someone else’s world. You’ll move around the house with them, see what they see and do what they do.
This simple yet powerful form of ‘play-story’ was developed with collaboration from Michelle Roche of WeRebel, off the back of a combined 20 years making interactive theatre and digital installations for arts and heritage audiences.
The audience listens to a very personal perspective on headphones in their own home, and proceeds to follow the character around the space, mirroring their actions.
We wanted to break the normal types of story we all consume quite passively, which are often commissioned, written and directed by cis straight white men, and develop a new form that invites the audience to develop compassion for the character through directing their own movement throughout the story.
Using this new form of enacted story we foreground stories by women and gender minorities telling stories from POC and Queer perspectives.
The first series of stories, 'Other Mothers' looks at multple perspectives on motherhood, informed by the writers personal and community experiences.
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