Inspector Sands
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Latest news:
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Rock Pool wins Sprout!
We are delighted to have been awarded the Sprout! commission to create a new piece of work for under-5's.
When a big storm whips up the sea, two very different creatures are left stranded in an isolated rock pool, far from the open water. As their little pool starts to drain away, Prawn and Crab don’t have long to find a way of getting on and getting home. Rock Pool is like a partially submerged, crustacean version of Waiting for Godot with music and splashy dancing.
Sprout! is a commissioning partnership between Farnham Maltings and Arts Partnership Surrey in association with Take Art designed to create and tour a new piece of young people’s theatre to new audiences, initially across Surrey and Somerset.
---- Mass Observation at the Almeida
Our new show Mass Observation will get its first outing as part of the Almeida Summer Festival from 5th-14th July.
Mass Observation is about legacy, bird-watching, Jeremy Kyle, the information age and the inevitability of death. It’s about a young woman discovering the world in 1937 and a young man getting lost in his grandfather’s care home in 2012. It’s about 95 years that have gone by in a flash and an afternoon that lasts an eternity.
More info and booking here: http://www.almeida.co.uk/event/inspectorsands
The show was inspired by the work of Mass-Observation, an organisation set up in 1937 to record and observe the lives of ordinary people in Britain. Their work still continues today. See www.massobs.org.uk.
A description and some photos of our MO-inspired piece, A Portrait of the Oridinary Festival-goer, created during our residency at last year's London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre can be seen here.