Cheers.
Monday, 16 May 2011
Civic Reception - thanks from the Mayor, a fitting end to the project
As another Edinburgh festival season begins, Nothing to Declare's 2010 success will soon hit the archives, so here are a few pictures and reviews to wrap up and look back on! (Taken me ages to get round to putting them on).
And this is us with the Mayor of Reading, who gave us a Civic Reception to acknowledge our efforts for Reading.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Critics Must See - The Stage
'if ever there was a play that defined the word poignant, this is it'
17 August 2010
17 August 2010
Review from THE SCOTSMAN
There's a story well worth telling here. For most of us, asylum seekers and refugees are little more than statistics on a Government report, or the occasional news story when something goes wrong.
All the Queen's Children aims to give the names behind the numbers a voice. Although none of the characters' lives is explored as much as we'd like we learn enough to know the hardships suffered on a daily basis by those in search of a better life.
Falling foul of the unscrupulous smugglers who help them reach the UK, the children arrive only to discover that their lives are almost worse than before. Meanwhile, three privileged middle class English teenagers go on a gap year jolly across Africa, to illustrate the chasm between life at home and abroad.
What triumphs most here (aside from the central premise of making the unseen visible) is the direction. Impressively uncliched, it allows the young company to work both as a physical theatre chorus and individual storytellers, and remains engaging throughout.
By Kelly Apter
13 August 2010
All the Queen's Children aims to give the names behind the numbers a voice. Although none of the characters' lives is explored as much as we'd like we learn enough to know the hardships suffered on a daily basis by those in search of a better life.
Falling foul of the unscrupulous smugglers who help them reach the UK, the children arrive only to discover that their lives are almost worse than before. Meanwhile, three privileged middle class English teenagers go on a gap year jolly across Africa, to illustrate the chasm between life at home and abroad.
What triumphs most here (aside from the central premise of making the unseen visible) is the direction. Impressively uncliched, it allows the young company to work both as a physical theatre chorus and individual storytellers, and remains engaging throughout.
By Kelly Apter
13 August 2010
Review from THE LIST
An impressive, unflinching piece of fluid theatre
The teens of Reading Youth Theatre devised this unflinching, impressive piece of fluid theatre themselves around the stories of real-life teenage asylum seekers (some of whom are in the company). Samuel is forced to swim to shore, swaggering, glam Lule is pulled into prostitution; their stories are set, pointedly, against that of three gap-year kids blundering around Africa.
By Kristin Innes
9 August 2010
Issue 164
The teens of Reading Youth Theatre devised this unflinching, impressive piece of fluid theatre themselves around the stories of real-life teenage asylum seekers (some of whom are in the company). Samuel is forced to swim to shore, swaggering, glam Lule is pulled into prostitution; their stories are set, pointedly, against that of three gap-year kids blundering around Africa.
By Kristin Innes
9 August 2010
Issue 164
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