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In 2022 a show was cancelled while it was still in rehearsal.

The idea of what the show might be created a demand for it to be left unseen.

A Little Inquest Into What We Are All Doing Here is a show about censorship and freedom of expression.

This piece of theatre - part autobiography, part fiction - questions the limits of performance: what we make it for, what we go to it for and what we are willing to stand up for. 

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PRESS 

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★★★★ The Scotsman
★★★★ The Stage 

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"bold, nightmarish and surprisingly humorous" The Guardian

 

"...and it is from these long-ago burnt ashes that this show is, rather thrillingly, born...a celebration of expressing what you believe in despite the fear of how others might respond" The Scotsman

"...this thoughtful and probing front line dispatch is delivered with an unexpectedly devastating theatrical swagger" Lyn Gardner, The Stage

"a truly uplifting piece about resistance, survival and community"

Total Theatre Magazine

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"A warning shot" Whats On Stage

 

"quietly electric" Broadway World

 

Mervin Stutter's Pick of the Fringe 2024

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AWARDS

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The Scotsman Fringe First Award 2024

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CREATIVE TEAM

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Lead Artist, Performed & Produced by: Josie Dale-Jones

Performers: Laurence Baker / Ben Target

Text by: Abbi Greenland

Director: Rachel Lemon

Dramaturg: Laurence Cook

Lighting Design: James Mackenzie with Additional Lighting Design: Lucy Adams

Sound Design: Carmel Smickersgill

Additional songs & music by: John Biddle with Stephanie Levi-John

Stage Manager and relight by: Lucy Adams / Amy Daniels

Outside Eye: Paula Varjack 

Artist Wellbeing Consultant: Nikki Disney

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Thanks to: Katie Greenall, Amelia Cavallo, Lydia Higginson, Shôn Dale-Jones, Sam Ward, Stefanie Müller, Norah Lopez Holden, Tika Mu'tamir, Kimberely Harvey, Christina Deinsberger, Clara Barry Born, Ellice Stevens, Rosie Gray, Greta Mitchell, Keziah Josef, Kaajel Patel, Hannah Morrish, Larisa Faber, Alice Boyd, Solène Weinachter, Sammy Glover, Ben Kulvich, Luca Rutherford, Camille Koosiyal, Ramon Ayres, Hannah Jane Walker, Carmen Salmeron, Lucy Ireland, Irma Unušić

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Developed at Camden People's Theatre, Streatham Space Project, Old Diorama Arts Centre & New Diorama Theatre. With thanks to Shoreditch Town Hall.​​​