Common Wealth is in the Gurnos developing a new show about Nationalisation.

We’re being supported by NTW to do an R&D and we’ve been really ambitious and decided to make it a bit of a proper show. The Gurnos deserves it. Over the past few months we’ve met and interviewed people of all ages about their thoughts on Nationalisation/Privatisation and Community Ownership. We’ve spoke about change, power, apathy and the future. On Friday night we’ll create an imaginary world where we ask our audience to suspend disbelief and imagine that last night the people of Merthyr went out and took control of our public utilities.

YESTERDAY we stood on the top of the post-box and bollards outside the main parade of shops holding up signs and talking to people about the show, people want to talk about Nationalisation, how it effects them and their lives, we put up a giant flyer on tarpaulin. We worked with a group of local kids and young people who wrote their own text about how it would feel to take back the power.

TODAY we borrowed some fridges from the recycling centre, built a 60 foot inflatable pipe, got the kids to write cardboard signs, talked to Bev and Nicola about Nationalisation and the problems with drugs on the estate, met Pat who’s going to come and help us make food with her friends on Friday, taught Lewis the Merthyrena, filmed an online tutorial next to the reservoir, found out where water came from, heard a poem from a poet by the side of the road, worked with Cerian from the college on her ‘What I did last night’ text, built a pylon, crowd surfed, and our musicians arrived and our team is complete.

TOMORROW we will piece it all together- by FRIDAY we will have a play. It will be mad, ambitious and fast-paced, a party for Gurnos, there will be free food and free drink, there will be music and The Power of Love, there will be snogging, dancing, face-painting and nudity. It’s going to be a laugh- come down if you can. 7.30pm, Friday 16th May, Gurnos Recreation Centre, Spruce Tree Grove, CF47 9AU.

 

 

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Comment by Rhian Richards on May 14, 2014 at 23:34

Looking forward to this on Friday!

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