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Play at ARC highlights local homelessness crisis
Black Toffee present
Parallel
Stockton Arc
Wednesday
9th November 2016
A unique new play which highlights the UK’s
current homelessness crisis is coming to Stockton on
Wednesday 9th November, and the play’s writers hope it will make
people think more about the homeless people in our own town.
Parallel is an innovative new
play from Black Toffee theatre. It starts with a dice role by an audience
member to decide which characters the three female actors will perform. So each
time to show is performed on its five date tour, it will be slightly different.
Writer and producer,
Laura Lindsay, spent time interviewing homeless people across the North when
developing the play’s script, and then formed the characters around the stories
she heard from the people she spoke to.
She said: “Homelessness
is a huge problem, especially as the national housing crisis worsens and the
number of people rough-sleeping has doubled since 2010. Parallel explores this
problem and also our broader understanding of home, purpose and charity. It is
told through the lives of three strangers, who desperately need to connect.
“Homelessness and the
inequality in standards of living is something I’ve always felt really
uncomfortable about and this was something I wanted to address through an engaging
piece of theatre. The dice roll explores the impact of chance on the outcome of
our lives. It illustrates that homelessness can happen to anyone, many people
in the UK are just one pay cheque
away from being homeless. With less than a week to go until the tour starts,
the cast and Black Toffee creative team cannot wait to present this unique play
to audiences.”
The cast are confirmed as
Arabella Gibbins, Emily Spowage and the writer herself, Laura Lindsay. Parallel
is directed by Peter Carruthers, who has been
involved in the project since the play’s early development stages.
Parallel has been
developed with the Harrogate Homeless Project and Crisis - which is the
national charity for single homeless people.
Tickets:
Please note: This performance is
priced on a Pay What You Decide basis, click here to
find out more.
Link to reserve tickets: http://arconline.co.uk/whats-on/drama-and-spoken-word/parallel
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