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E-book Theatre in Towns

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While we were researching theatre in towns for this book, a perfor-mance was taking place across Europe. Little Amal, a giant child- refugee puppet, began a walk from Gazientep in Turkey, close to the Syrian border, a city that had become home to half a million refu-gees during the ten-year-long war. Little Amal travelled more than 8000 kilometres between June and November 2021, visiting over 70 towns, villages and cities, before ending her journey in Manchester in the UK. The Walk was co-produced by Good Chance Theatre, a company founded as a creative response to the Calais refugee camp in 2015, in partnership with Handspring Puppet Company. Her walk cre-ated spontaneous moments of encounter across the streets, squares, neighbourhoods, and civic and cultural institutions of Europe, with more than 875,000 people gathering to watch, accompany or stage choreographed acts of welcome. Evoking strong emotional responses everywhere she walked, the performance materialised a chain reaction of support and care.We met Little Amal twice on her walk. First, at the National Theatre in London, and then in Wigan, a town close to Manchester. On a sunny afternoon in London, she was greeted by members of the Public Acts company, the National Theatre’s programme of new works created in partnership with theatres and communities across the UK. Lifting candles above their heads, the cast of the inaugural Public Acts production, Pericles, sang to Little Amal from the thea-tre’s balconies. I am my own way home (composer Jim Fortune, lyricist Chris Bush) is a haunting song that captures the joy of finding a home after the pain of loss and abandonment. A few weeks later, on a cold and rainy day in Wigan, we followed Little Amal’s walk through the Wigan Pier quarter, where she met the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, danced with the youth group, WigLe Dance, before heading to a conference centre where local groups presented her witha quilt and read her stories. Along the way she enjoyed performances by a community choir and Wigan Youth Brass Band, and listened to a poem performed by local poet Louise Fazackerley, who wore an elab-orate dress made of recycled packaging from Wigan family business, Uncle Joe’s mint balls.‘Amal’, the Arabic word for hope, is an appropriate name for a per-formance designed to transform negative narratives associated with the ‘refugee crisis’ into small acts of welcome, rooted in the affective and social relationships of places and communities. Little Amal was a response to adversity characterised by hopeful forms of collective and creative action, and this resonates with the research that led to this book.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

792 HEL t

Penerbit

New York : Taylor & Francis., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

140 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781003308058

Klasifikasi

792

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Stage Presentation, Theater

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