Advise on set design for a small scale theatre production touring care homes please...
I have secured funding to produce a covid safe theatre tour around Independent Living Schemes and Care homes in Liverpool City Region. This year we will be performing in the communal areas so will most likely use furniture that is already available, but we would like to frame the performance space and add some decoration to brighten up the venue. Last year we performed outdoors so used garden furniture (deckchairs, bunting, floral garlands, oh yes and shopping trolleys etc.) Any suggestions for this year's performace would be great.
During Lockdown, saddened by the stories I'd heard from members of the older community, I decided to raise funding to produce a doorstep theatre piece. In collaboration with some of Liverpool’s finest actors and writers, we set out to give older people the chance to be heard, demonstrating that we recognise their worth as valuable members of society. Working with people from Independent Living Schemes, we created an authentic yet mischievous comedy guaranteed to get everyone laughing, singing, and tapping their feet. We toured Liverpool City Region’s Independent Living Schemes and Care Homes during April and May, and ‘Silver Bells and Cocktails’, became the first social activity many had taken part in over 12/15 months.
Performace: Silver Bells and Cocktails – a life in lockdown: a mischievous comedy guaranteed to get everyone laughing, singing, and tapping their feet.
Synopsis: Sick to the back teeth of lockdown the residents of Meadowlands Court miss their families, their friends, having a knees-up and a good gossip. They’re losing it. They want to live. They want to go on holiday, to a festival. The trouble is…they live in sheltered accommodation, under curfew, unable to travel, with nosy neighbours and a centre manager watching their every move. With no chance of escape they decide to create a secret party in the communal garden. It’s almost a spiritual quest but how do they get the other residents onboard? And will they manage to pull it off without getting caught?
This year we'll be looking at the characters lives following lockdown.
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- Fabulous project... no doubt the care home residents taught you all a thing or two...nothing like sharing stories between generations... So powerful as well as therapeutic. To be listened to... o empowering!
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