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Home is a nomadic piece of theatre that, like a camper, arrives in any place,
unpacks, tells a story, packs up again and leaves. Whether home is a mansion,
a shack, or a tent, we all strive to protect the place of safety that we’ve
created. Using their trademark blend of physicality, image, atmosphere, music
and narrative, tangled feet explore where the edge of “home” is. It has an
original score penned by Guy Connelly of Clock Opera.
What is Home?
2009 Trailer
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From the directors, Nathan Curry and Kat Joyce
“Over the course of 2008 and 2009 tangled feet made HOME, a site-responsive
piece of theatre that could happen in any location, inside or outside at any
time of the day or night, for audiences of a few or for audiences of many.
As a company we also went on an explorative journey to try to understand what
the word ‘home’ means both to us as individuals but also to the wider world.
The stories we found and made were collected together into the production.
It has been an incredible journey that started with scratching an idea in a
studio in Deptford to performing across the UK in summer 2009 to over 7,000
people.
HOME is a physical piece of performance, which lasts 45 minutes, that follows
the interweaving stories of seven characters and their relationship with their
home (represented by the reliable one man tent). The performance has happened
in urban squares, shopping centres, nightclubs, fields, parks, festivals, theatres,
tunnels and quaysides. The performance can also happen as a promenade with
the audience walking or taking buses and boats, following the action and discovering
secret parts of a city. Surrounding the performances was a scheme of working
within communities and school residencies to creatively continue the discussion
of what the word home means to us; these ideas then fed into the production.
We are very proud to be have made a piece of theatre that does not rely on
a traditional theatre building, lights or mains power and which can turn up
and meet any audience, anywhere. We look forward to continuing to perform HOME
as part of the company’s repertoire in future years.”
Home was seen at:
The Deptford Theatre, Albany
Latitude Festival
CASA Festival, Elephant and Castle
Southwark Playhouse
Wandsworth Arts Festival
Crawley Town Centre
Exeter Festival
Exeter Northcott
Thomas Tallis School
Goose Green School
The London Mela
Paradise Gardens
Winchester Hat Fair
Camp Bestival
Stockton Town Centre
What the people said
“Home arrives and disappears again into the night, like a travelling sideshow...
a glimpse of magic”
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian (Pick of the Week)
"The importance of home whatever its significance is made abruptly and
touchingly clear"
Culture Wars Magazine
“by turns sinister, sweet, playful and almost spiritual”
The London Theatre
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Creative team
Directed by: Nathan Curry and Kat Joyce
Devised and performed by: Mario Christofides, Tunji Falana, Susan Hingley, John Hinton, Vala Omarsdottir, Sara Templeman and Fiona Watson
Production / Technical manager: Luke Gledsdale
Design Assistant: Yuko Iwata
Original music by: Guy Connelly / Clock Opera website
Additional Movement Direction: Rachel Birch Lawson and Leon Smith
The development of HOME is indebted to the performance/devising contributions of: Cristina Catalina, Abi Hood, Emily Horn, Sebastien Lawson, Alex Ramsden, Leon Smith and the support of the rest of the Tangled Feet ensemble
Supported by The Arts Council of England
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