Tiny Human Dramas
5 plays. 1 day. Endless Possibilities
Saturday 06/04 20.30–22.00
Contact Theatre, Oxford Rd, Manchester M15 6JA
What story would you tell if you only had a day? We’ve teamed up five anthropologists with performers and theatre-makers to turn anthropological research into exciting new plays. The catch? Each team has only 24 hours to create their play from scratch! With all their creativity combined, the possibilities for storytelling onstage are endless. Come out and witness five tiny human dramas… and maybe add yours to the mix!
Meghan Rose Donnelly is an anthropologist and theatre director who experiments with playmaking as a form of representation and as a research method. She works with Catholic nuns in Flores, Indonesia on questions of community and self-becoming.
Sophie is an actress & playwright who collaborated with Meghan on her verbatim play about Indonesian Nuns during the pandemic. She is currently working on a play about a couple whose life gets turned upside down by chronic fatigue syndrome. www.lshelbig.com
Alexandra D’Onofrio is a visual anthropologist, documentary film director and community arts facilitator who works on the topics of migration and illegalised border crossings combining theatre, storytelling, photography, documentary filmmaking and animation as co-creative research methods and forms of representation.
