MON 15 - TUE 30 NOVEMBER
FREE online event |
Autin Dance Theatre presents A Posi+ive Life
A Posi+ive Life - an interactive sex ed’ and coming of age dance theatre experience for teenagers and young adults. An accessible, immersive and interactive theatre experience led by six contemporary characters featuring dance, physical theatre, spoken word and BSL interpretation.
The piece is a special invitation to a house party like no other, where a web of stories around sex, love and relationships unveils, with audience participation and original scenography, transporting the guests to the heart of the story. Suitability: 12+. Please note the show is aimed at teenagers and young adults on the topics of sex, consent, identity and relationships.The show contains some scenes of a sexual nature, strong language and images that some people may find distressing. The digital performance is supported by Arts Council England, the National Lottery Community Fund and Midlands Arts Centre (MAC). |
FRI 12 - TUE 30 NOVEMBER FREE online event |
Amina Khayyam Dance Company presents
Catch a Bird Who Won't Fly Catch the Bird Who Won’t Fly is a digital dance-theatre piece made during the Covid lockdowns by working remotely with artists to bring attention to the devastating reality of a crime, which increased during lockdown and is often shrouded in secrecy – domestic violence against women. Using animation and green screen technology, four individual stories are told through Kathak dance from real-life experiences that were researched with the company’s network of women’s group users. DURATION: 20M AGE GROUP: 14+ Contains distressing themes |
FRI 12 - TUE 30 NOVEMBER
FREE online event Content Warning: This show explores mental health problems and contains depictions of panic attacks and anxiety. The show was written and is set in 2018. It also contains language that some viewers may find offensive. |
House of Blakewell
Everything is Absolutely Fine A new comedy musical about anxiety disorders, caring and trying to keep going. With power ballads, show tunes and body percussion, HOUSE OF BLAKEWELL explore what it’s like to be human and to struggle. Alice is making a new start. Things are going to be different. She has moved out of the big city to a small town, doing the job she loves as an Occupational Therapist. She is going to be a new person here, cool, calm and free. The kind of person who goes running everyday and can go to a cafe and sit on their own. She is going to make a difference, meet new people and become a new woman… BUT her old friend Anxiety has other ideas… How do you make new friends when even choosing what to have for dinner fills you with dread and self-doubt? What do you do when it all gets too much? Originally filmed at The North Wall Arts Centre Oxford ★★★★★ “A packed and very rewarding experience” British Theatre |
FRI 12 - TUE 30 NOVEMBER
FREE online event |
Sink or Swim
In her short film, Charlotte Edmonds explores the effects of mental health and depression in a mesmerising underwater ballet. Sink or Swim is a poetic depiction of depression through underwater ballet, developed with the support of the mental health charity Mind. With choreography by Charlotte Edmonds, directed by Louis-Jack and featuring Royal Ballet Principal Francesca Hayward, it delves into the mind of someone battling to keep their head above water. “I have always used dance to express my emotions and concerns. I use it as a vehicle to portray a vivid topic in my mind. When training, I went through phases where I had hit rock bottom. I found myself suffering in silence and never felt encouraged to speak out. This is why I am passionate about this film—there should be no shame in admitting you can’t keep your head above water.” Charlotte Edmonds |
SUN 15 - 21 NOVEMBER
AGES 12+ |
The Glad Game Written and performed by Phoebe Frances Brown Directed by Tessa Walker “You don’t have to do much to be an actor; just to be able speak and remember lines. Two very basic things” Phoebe is an actor. From her childhood impressions of Dolly Parton to grown up roles at The National Theatre, The Donmar Warehouse and New York Theatre Workshop, acting has defined who and what she is. In November 2018 Phoebe was diagnosed with an incurable cancer in the area of her brain that controls speech, language and memory. The Glad Game the story of finding herself in the bleakest of times, of discovering gladness in the saddest of moments and about how who and what you love can pull you through. The Glad Game is Co-Produced by Nottingham Playhouse and Pippa Frith, Sound Design by Iain Armstrong, supported by Arts Council England, Television Workshop, The Bush and Leicester Curve. Our charity partners are Brain Tumour Research. |
FRI 19 - SUN 21 NOVEMBER FREE online event |
Vincent Dance Theatre
In Loco Parentis In Loco Parentis is the latest in a series of productions on stage, on film and online, including Virgin Territory (2016), Shut Down (2017) and Art of Attachment (2018), that focus on how adult choices and behaviours impact on children’s lives. It is the company’s fourth production created using a highly participatory, socially engaged model of research, in which collaborators’ voices feature strongly in the creative process and the finished work – either in the soundtrack or performing live on stage. |
FRI 19 - TUE 30 NOVEMBER
FREE online event |
The Red Earth Collective Presents
Menologues and Femelogues At the height of the pandemic, Red Earth collaborated with Film Makers Daniel Anderson from Rites of Passage Productions and Daina Anderson at Open Lens Productions to make a series of short films. The films that they created are all about the impact of Covid-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement on the mental health of Black women and men in Birmingham. The films will premiere at Bedlam and will be followed by a Q and A with both film makers hosted by Sandra Griffiths, the founder of the Red Earth Collective. |
