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A Co-creative performance with Lewisham Mencap & Adult Learning Lewisham 10 – 14 May 2022 at The Albany, Douglas Way, SE8 4AG “Will you come back? I had really good fun” - Ranubi, former guest performer

We Will Be Happy Here

It is a story and an experience made with Spare Tyre’s actors and our guest-performers from Lewisham Mencap and Adult Learning Lewisham.

The Performances will take place in the theatre at the Albany in this special “immersive” installation.

An ”immersive” stage is one where the scenery is all around you.

There are some seats for your friends/ support people and you will be joining in with our performers.

Every Performance is different because it’s made and performed with a few Guest Performers at a time, telling the story in your way with your special additions.

Our performers, Jasmine, Sophie and Jazmin Our producer, Claude, will help you find the right time to come to be part of your performance.

The Story 1. Welcome: When you arrive you will meet Suki and her friend (who has lost her name). Can you give her a name?

They are pleased to welcome you to the Happy City where anyone can design a better and inclusive world and pass on their ideas to the people in power.

To get everyone ready, we find the things we will need and we do some “Hallo” moves to warm us all up.

2. Through the Arch Suki and her friend (with no name) take you in through the entrance into the Happy City.

3. Meeting Hope Hope is in the Happy City but she’s very sad and won’t wake up. She has lost her special things she needs to make her Manifesto of Hope for a Better World.

Meeting HOPE Hope is discouraged because there is a monster who doesn’t want the Happy City to exist and keeps destroying her plans and wishes.

The Monsters want to keep their power.

4. What gives us HOPE? “People helping people helping people gives us hope”

Together you help make a soundtrack with our loop pedal, create some hopeful moves , and call up your courage….

The Forest of Rules and The Cabin 5. The Forest of Rules Sounds of wind, tins banging, and a monster are heard.

A shadow figure appears in front of a maze of rules and no entry signs and tapes.

Hope is scared when the others go into the Forest of Rules. You encourage her.

You find your way through the rules and start to break them up.

6. Cabin After helping to break down the “old normal’ you find the Cabin where you can relax and live your best life…..

A Better World is Possible …

7. Better Than Normal In the Cabin, Hope finds her special picture frame.

Using this she helps everyone see the world differently.

From this new perspective, they find Hope’s Box. In here she keeps all the things that people have told her they want to see in a better world.

Together, the group makes a new and accessible maze that is a pleasure to be part of: and that lets everyone be part of it. A creative manifesto.

8. The Monster Returns The monster has one more try to take back control but the new inclusive world is so much better….

Goodbyes and A Sharing….

9. A Dance & A Goodbye When all the Monsters have gone, we dance and see what a fantastic new Manifesto for a Happy City we have made.

10. The MANIFESTO for a Happy City Who would you like to tell?

Please listen when I’m talking

On Saturday 14 May at 2pm, we are inviting some influential people from Lewisham to hear all about what makes the Happy City for people from Lewisham Mencap and Adult Learning Lewisham.

Will you help us tell them?

Who would you like us to invite?

We Will Be Happy Here Rehearsal Workshop Dates Lewisham Mencap Thursday 7, 21, 28 Apr & 5 May (4-6pm) Leemore Centre Adult Learning Lewisham Friday 8, 22, 29 Apr & 6 May (10am – 12pm)

Performance Slots Tuesday 10 – Friday 13 May Times by arrangement with Claude producer@sparetyre.org www. sparetyre.org WhatsApp 07598 142058 The Albany, Douglas Way, Deptford SE8 4AG We Will Be Happy Here - interactive manifesto Saturday 14 May Rehearsal 10am – 12pm Lunch 12 – 2pm (provided) Presentation 2 – 4pm Spare Tyre is a leading artist-led participatory theatre company that seeks to reflect society, challenge its prejudices and make life equal.

Concept Dramaturg Design Lighting Sound Film Photography

Rebecca Manson Jones Jennifer Lunn Jo Paul Guy Hoare Alice Theobald Paul Williams Patrick Baldwin

Cast:

Jasmine Shigemura Lee Sophie Holland Jazmin Qunta

Producer Claude Graham Production Neelam Chhara Assistant

Spare Tyre is a charity registered in England & Wales 273418, comp no.130149 Artistic Director: Rebecca Manson Jones, Executive Director: John Holmes.

General Manager: Rose Chorlton www.sparetyre.org @spare_tyre