Have Your Circumstances Changed?

3 Jun-28 Jun 2015

Overview

Director Lu Kemp in collaboration with older men from Islington and collaborators Elena Pena, Cis O’Boyle, Ben Lewis and Jamie Vartan. A triptych of 15-minute performances in former FADS shop, Archway Mall, London N19 5QT. Have Your Circumstances Changed? is a triptych of duets between an ageing man and a growing boy taking place in theatre sets positioned in the windows of a former furniture shop in Archway. These choreographed performances (to be seen singly or in combination), developed through collaboration led by director Lu Kemp, will confront audiences with the intimate routine of an older man’s daily life. The performances emerged from a specially developed cookery school run by chef and actor, Paul Cawley. Project partners Age UK Islington, St Luke’s Community Centre and Vital Arts invited older men from their networks to attend basic cookery classes at St Luke’s Cookery School and in the Occupational Therapy unit at Mile End Hospital.