SeaChange - Chickenshed
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
CHICKENSHED is presenting SeaChange, a new production based on a global conversation with children throughout all the continents of the world, from July 6 (previews from July 2) to July 19, 2008.
Young people are sharing their stories, voicing their concerns, revealing their aspirations and beliefs and telling how they wish to change the future of the world. Their experiences are providing the heart and soul of the SeaChange story which will culminate in a series of performances around the world.
All around an evil, decaying world, the world’s children were dreaming of change. The rulers of each of the world’s seven continents wanted things to stay the same – even though the same was awful and depressing, inhuman and wrong – and banned the word “change”. The only hope left in the world was SeaChange and the children dreamed of the legend of SeaChange becoming real.
Then SeaChange came – a change in the tide that took the children of the world off to escape in boats and ride the SeaChange waves in search of the 8th continent of the world – the best place, the ideal place, built by dreams and made real by words and feelings. Could the SeaChange succeed before the rulers made change, time and even dreams stop completely? Would the world the children wanted to save be worth saving by the time they had found the 8th continent? Did the 8th continent really exist?
All the worldwide SeaChange partners have shared a vision: to find out why and how children want to change the world – through questions and creative workshops, for example – to ensure every child has a voice and that voice is heard. Their answers are all here in SeaChange with literally a cast of thousands – some on the stage, some hundreds or thousands of miles away – but everyone with something to say. Things such as, “I would like to change water-wasting, poverty, bullying, being segregated, extinction, prices and socks.”
In July, Chickenshed will be hosting the SeaChange Festival in London.
The Global Ambassador for SeaChange is Sir Roger Moore KBE.
Tickets: £14, £9 concessions, groups of 10 or more – all tickets £7, previews – £10 (£6 concessions).
Times: 7:30pm; Saturday matinees at 3.30 pm.
Access performances:
Sign language is integrated into all performances.
Audio described and captioned performances: Thursday, July 17 at 7:30, Friday, July 18 at 7:30, and Saturday, July 19 at 3:30.