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Home > Theatre > Hope and humour with Tales from the Front Line

Hope and humour with Tales from the Front Line

By Caroline King - July 3, 2020Posted in : Theatre

This Autumn, Talawa Theatre Company will be bringing a new online experience to audiences, exploring the communities most impacted by Covid-19 and the society that will emerge from it.

Tales from the Front Line
Talawa Theatre Company’s Tales from the Front Line

Talawa Theatre Company are creating an online experience, featuring six short pieces using verbatim interviews from Black key and frontline workers. Tales from the Front Line will explore the historic moment of the Covid-19 crisis and its impact on society.

The pandemic has had a starkly divergent impact on communities: Black people are four times more likely to die from Covid-19, according to Public Health England’s figures in May for England and Wales.

What has been learned, challenged and changed forever? What might life in the UK look like in a year’s time? Tales from the Front Line will document the contribution of Black workers at the front line of the Covid-19 crisis, creating a lasting historical record. It will explore their relationships with British society and how the pandemic has challenged their perceptions of belonging, especially in the wake of the Windrush Scandal and the global Black Lives Matter movement.

With humour and hope, Tales from the Front Line will be an interrogation of the society that is being impacted greatest by Covid-19, and the society that will emerge from it.

Talawa are speaking to people from a wide spectrum of key and frontline workers, including Transport for London employees, supermarket staff, teachers, teaching assistants and delivery drivers; and draws contributors from Talawa’s Croydon home and across the UK.

The interviews are intended to provide a space for these workers to share their experiences, and articulate their concerns and hopes for the future. Artists will be given the freedom to use the testimonies to create a dramatised work featuring music, photography, movement, soundscapes and animations: whatever they feel best conveys the story.

With support from Croydon Council’s Culture Relief Fund, the pieces will be available on Talawa’s website this Autumn.

When: Autumn 2020
Where: Online via the theatre website
£: Free

More info: www.talawa.com and www.youtube.com

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