There's No Place Like Home

DEVISED VERBATIM THEATRE ABOUT EVICTION IN USA. 

STUDIO 1 THEATRE, RCSSD, LONDON, DECEMBER 2009.

 

Home is an English word virtually impossible to translate into other tongues. No translation catches the associations, the mixture of memory and longing, the sense of security and autonomy and accessibility, the aroma of inclusiveness, of freedom from wariness, that cling to the word home… Home is a concept, not a place; it is a state of mind where self-definition starts; it is origins; the mix of time and place and smell and weather wherein one first realizes one is an original, perhaps like others, especially those one loves, but discrete, distinct, not to be copied. Home is where one first learned to be separate and it remains in the mind as the place where reunion, if it were ever to occur, would happen.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

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Over a period of three months, the company conducted interviews – in person, via skype, email or on the phone – with American citizens who lost their homes or whose homes were at risk of foreclosure due to the 2008 economic crisis. We created a show based on these interviews and stories.

CREATIVE TEAM

Direction and dramaturgy: Sinéad Rushe
Assistant direction: John Montegrande with Jordan Dawes
SM: Greg Sharman. Production: Tal Landsman
Stage/Costume Design: Rebecca Sian Hutchins
Sound Design: David Sharrock and Cristina De Risi
Lighting Design: Abigail Bates. Projection Design: Adam Young

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CAST

Fisayo Akinade, Nadia Balfe, Laura Dewey, Sarah French, Sara Green, Peter Hobday, Magnus McCullagh, Elizabeth Menabney, Peter Randall, Nicholas Rowe, Cherrelle Skeete, Hormuzd Todiwala, Paula Videniece, Rhiannon Wallace, Miles Yekinni.

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SUPPORTED BY: playwright Tanika Gupta, director Catherine Alexander, sound designer Gregg Fisher, performer Lizzie Roper, projection designer Finn Ross, set designer Becs Andrews, cinematographer Dan Rack and sound designer Gareth Fry.