I’ve been either running, or co-running, Daedalus Theatre Company for a while. It’s aim is to create a space for innovate cross-disciplinary arts, working as democratically as possibly and crossing the gap between professional practice as community participation by creating professional-led projects that invite some kind of creative participation.
We make devised theatre based on research, as well as running a storytelling group and artist development activities. You can find out more at www.daedalustheatre.co.uk.
A Tower Hamlets-based, LGBTQ-led charity, it aims to create excellent research-based performance & provide opportunities for artistic development for arts professionals and community members. Previous projects include:
Selfish, commissioned by the Arches, Glasgow, an exploration of selfhood in the contemporary world:
… a huge emotional momentum …a serious, true and compassionate feeling for the human condition in the image-driven age of Big Brother; and a deep musicality about the expression of that feeling that finally becomes irresistible.
– Joyce MacMillan, the Scotsman, on Selfish
A Place at the Table, commissioned by Camden Peoples Theatre. This investigated the 1993 Burundian coup, using original research and collaboration with writers and activists. The audience sat around a huge table which opened to reveal secrets buried in soil, then became a meeting point with food & conversations blossoming between public, activists & survivors.
… amazing and a touch overwhelming. This is a strong, thought provoking production that from the start makes the audience part of the performance…. It manages to force you to think beyond a monstrous period in history and reflect on current human experiences from Gaza to Brixton… you will leave this production having had a life-altering experience.
– Elvina Quaison, Afridiziak, on A Place at the Table
…engrossingly complex and starkly beautiful… Its vision of communities founded on myths as fundamental and sustaining as the land is vividly reflected in director/designer Paul Burgess’s stunning set… Its un-showy cast bring to life with powerful immediacy the stories of those not able to speak for themselves, full of hurt, loss and hope.
– Time Out on A Place at the Table
Current projects I’m leading or co-leading for Daedalus are: East a storytelling community project with workshops, performances & events in Tower Hamlets, East Archive, an online archive of stories from East London’s diverse communities, and Mobile Incitement, a group of projects exploring radical history, folk song and the state of protest and radicalism today.
The Black Smock Band in Mobile Incitemement, Latitude Festival
Paul Burgess and Andy Bannister in Mobile Incitemement, Latitude Festival
Sarah Jeanpierre in Mobile Incitemement, Latitude Festival
Rhiannon Kelley, Matt Beattie and Dan Cox in Mobile Incitemement, Latitude Festival
Sef Townsend performing at Boi Lit, Rich Mix, as part of East
Shamim Azad performing at Boi Lit, Rich Mix, as part of East
Sef Townsend and Alia Alzougbi performing as East at Great Day Out, Victoria Park. Photo: Rehan Jamil
An East holiday workshop
An East holiday workshop
Rhiannon Kelley and Sarah Jeanpierre in Mobile Incitement, Brixton City Festival
Andy Bannister and Paul Burgess with the mobile incitement unit, Acme Studios, Deptford
Mobile Incitement, Brixton City Festival
Rhiannon Kelley and Sarah Jeanpierre in Mobile Incitemement, Brixton City Festival
The Black Smock Band in Mobile Incitemement, Brixton City Festival
A tea party, part of our Mobile Incitemnt residency at Queen Mary university
The Black Smock Band performing as part of Kinetica’s Silk River project
Dan Cox leading a pilot for our woodland walk project
Dan Cox leading a pilot for our woodland walk project
Filming the East Archive
Shamim Azad, Sef Townsend and Paul Burgess performing as East at Great Day Out, Victoria Park
East at Rich Mix as part of A Season of Bangla Drama. Photo Simon Daw
East at Rich Mix as part of A Season of Bangla Drama. Photo Simon Daw
East at Rich Mix as part of A Season of Bangla Drama. Photo Simon Daw
David Solomon, Paul Burgess and John Bryden performing as part of East at Rich Mix as part of A Season of Bangla Drama. Photo Simon Daw
Sef Townsend and Shamim Azad performing as part of East at Rich Mix as part of A Season of Bangla Drama. Photo Simon Daw
A Place at the Table at Amnesty International, London
Grace Nyandoro in A Place at the Table at Southwark Cathedral, London. Photo Jethro Compton
Naomi Grosset in A Place at the Table at Southwark Cathedral, London
Jennifer Muteteli in A Place at the Table at Southwark Cathedral, London. Photo Jethro Compton
A Place at the Table at Amnesty International, London. Photo Harriet Stewart
Jennifer Muteteli in A Place at the Table at Amnesty International, London. Photo Harriet Stewart
Grace Nyandoro inA Place at the Table at Amnesty International, London. Photo Harriet Stewart
Out of Nothing at Cambridge Junction
Sarah Richardson and Ben Ridge in Out of Nothing at Cambridge Junction
Sharon Cannings in Out of Nothing at Cambridge Junction
Susan Worsfold and Graeme Mackayin Selfish at Camden People’s Theatre
Susan Worsfold in Selfish at Camden People’s Theatre
Paul Kelly in Selfish at Camden People’s Theatre
Graeme Mackay in Selfish at Camden People’s Theatre
Graeme Mackay in Selfish at The Arches, Glasgow
Onur Orkut in Selfish at The Arches, Glasgow
Graeme Mackay, Susan Worsfold and Onur Orkut in Selfish at The Arches, Glasgow
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