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The Good NeighbourDiscover the hidden stories of Battersea

We hope you enjoyed The Good Neighbour at Battersea Arts Centre. Thank you for coming. We have created the show because we are interested in our theatre’s role in the local community. We have tried to represent some of the historical and contemporary stories of our community and we are on a journey to better understanding the values of Battersea, includ-ing its mid-19th century motto Not For Me, Not For You, But For Us.

BAC’s mission is to invent the future of theatre. The Good Neighbour fits into that mission by trying to find new ways for families and groups to enjoy theatre. The experience is very much a home-made affair with many BAC staff and regular BAC artists coming together. With terrific support from Bloomberg and Arts Council England we have found a way to keep the ticket prices low and free for under 6’s. We’d love to hear about your experi-ence of The Good Neighbour. Please do email us on the address below and tell us your thoughts … and what else you would you like to see happening at Battersea Arts Centre?

thegoodneighbour@bac.org.uk

Early InvestigatorsCreated and designed by

Jeannine Inglis-Hall and Gary CampbellPerformed by Thomas Martin

The Early Investigators journey has been created in The Bee’s Knees, BAC’s indoor playground for 0-5 year olds. Gary and Jeannine make and design spaces that are worth exploring. They work with performers to devise work that is strongly influenced by its environment and the audience that inhabit it. The design for The Good Neighbour is particularly inspired by their son Henry and their interest in creating a space for play that is not a typical playground.

Gary and Jeannine designed and devised the bedroom and performance Where the Wild Things Sleep at BAC in 2011 and more recently they designed the foyer space for Camden People’s Theatre.

Gary is an associate lecturer on the BA Performance Design and Practice at Central St Martins. He is Co-Artistic Director of Stoke Newington Inter-national Airport and an elder of Coney. Jeannine designed Early Days of a Better Nation for Coney.

Young Adventurers

Creative Director: Sarah GoldingAssociate Creative Director: Ruth Dudman

Devising Collaborator: Tom BowtellScratch Devising Collaborator: Tiernan DouiebCreative Consultant: Andy WhiteWorkshop Consultant: Ian GoldingStage Manager: Liz EllacottDesign Team: Russell Hill and Libby Blackwell

Young Adventurers’ Company:Tara BolandJunior BonnickTom BowtellAlexandra DonnachieMonique DuchenJessica FrancombeDan McGowanMatt OdellSarah PorteousNina SmithLinden Walcott-Burton

Commission spaces created by:Bryony Kimmings Kazuko HohkiConeyRuth Paton-JoplinSheila GhelaniMatthew Blake Kirsty Harris

Photograph by James Allan

Three years ago BAC began developing new theatre shows in partnership with children from local primary schools in Wandsworth, supported by Arts Council England. The shows have included Kazuko Hohki’s A Great Escape: A Borrow-er’s Tale; Polarbear’s Mouth Open, Story Jump Out; and Hannah Ringham’s The Present. The Good Neighbour: The Young Adventurers is the culmination of a series of schools’ projects.

Sarah Golding has sixteen years’ experience of managing participatory arts education programmes, including four years as Participate Director at BAC and her current role as Associate Artistic Director. Sarah is a Co-Founder of Fuel Theatre and has helped leading artists, including Punchdrunk and Fevered Sleep, to devel-op participatory work for children and young people. Sarah is currently leading a new programme of work at BAC to produce high quality new theatre productions aimed at children and young people.

Ruth Dudman spent several years as a producer at BAC, during which time she worked closely with Sarah Golding on BAC’s schools programme. Since leav-ing BAC, she has worked as Creative Producer at the Basement in Brighton, and currently works as a freelance producer. She is a founding member of SOUP, a group of independent producers and artistic director of Undercurrent, a festival for families in Shoreham- by- sea.

Photographs by James Allan

dirty laundry to oil conversations on seemingly difficult subjects. She has presented her work in theatres and clubs across the globe including Antifest (Finland), Culturgest (Lisbon), Frieze Art Fair (USA), Soho Theatre, Assembly Rooms and Brighton Festival. Kablooey! is her first show for young people. “The Pam Ayers of Performance Art” The Guardian“A wacky sweetheart with a delightful anything goes air” The Timeswww.bryonykimmings.com

Stage Manager: Jane BellamySet Design and Costume: David Curtis Ring www.davidcurtis-ring.blogspot.co.ukSet Design Assistant: Lauren FreedmanThis piece was developed as part of a schools residency with year 4 pupils at Sacred Heart; and with advice from year 5 at Falconbrook, and year 3 classes at St Faith’s and Allfarthing.

Commissioned ArtistsBryony KimmingsBryony Kimmings is an award winning per-formance artist from Cambridge. She creates full-length theatre work, audio installations and cabaret. Her work is mega-colourful, hyper-hon-est, always participatory, sometimes dangerous but above all very-very fun. She is inspired by the taboos and anomalies of British culture and her work often promotes the airing of her own

Kazuko HohkiA founder member of the pop performance group Frank Chickens with whom she has released 5 albums, toured worldwide and won Foster’s Comedy God Award in 2010. Kazuko’s past performance work includes Toothless, My Husband is a Spaceman, Herald Angel and Total Theatre Award winning Evidence for the Existence of Borrowers (collaboration with ex

The Beat and Fine Young Cannibals guitarist/artist, Andy Cox) and Last Night I dreamed I Was An Eskimo (commissioned by Nordland Visual Theater in Norway in 2010). Kazuko and Andy created The Great Escape - A Borrowers Tale, as a Christmas show for BAC in 2010, You Only Live Twice (But Die Once) for the One on One Festival at BAC (2011), Tottenham Travesties for Birmingham Rep (2011) and Incontinental (2012), She Is currently developing a new multi-media production Man From Fukushima. www.kazukohohki.com

Created by Kazuko Hohki in collaboration with Andy CoxWith thanks to Nao Nagai and film maker, Yutaka KitamuraThis piece was developed with advice from year 4 children at Sacred Heart School

Other work includes designs for the RSC, RNT, Opera North, Glyndebourne, ENO, ETO, Live Theatre Newcastle, Hull Truck and the Oxford School of Drama.www.portfoliopatonjopling.blogspot.co.uk

This piece was developed with advice from two year 6 classes at Furzedown Primary School

Ruth PatonRuth Paton has worked as a designer at BAC on and off for 15 years. Other productions here include Newsnight the Opera, Matins for the Virgin of Guadeloupe, Gamblers and an instal-lation project for the One on One Festival. She has also worked on many outreach and partici-patory projects including those with Kneegigh and Punchdrunk.

Sheila GhelaniSheila makes work that manifests in a range of media (video, object, participatory event, per-formance etc). She works both as a solo and collaborative artist.She has shown work at venues and festivals across Europe including Belluard Bollwerk International in Switzerland and the Wellcome Collection in London.

As a collaborative artist she is a long-standing Associate Artist of Blast Theory and has toured and performed nationally and internationally for them and many other companies. She also teaches in academic contexts and regularly mentors artists and students and gives public talks. Her work is informed by her own experience of being mixed heritage. She is interested in the relationship between art and science with particular focus on hybridity, crossings, blood, skins, skinning, carefully controlled experiments, colour, genetics and love. www.sheilaghelani.co.uk

Lighting Design: Hannah May (For BAC)A six-week research and development period was undertaken at BAC, St Marys and Sacred Heat Primary schools in Spring 2012, during the making of this show, where ideas were developed in collaboration with children from year 6 and year 4. With thanks to all the children involved, and their teachers, Angela Brown and Desiree Miskimmon.

Commissioned Artists

ConeyConey makes theatre, adventure and play for anyone, anywhere. Their work ranges from large scale theatrical pieces to experiences for individuals and adventures in the classroom. Coney’s previous projects at BAC include A Small Town Anywhere, The Loveliness Prin-ciple and A Cat Escapes

www.youhavefoundconey.netCreated by Georgina Bednar and Tom BowtellDesigned by Libby BlackwellPeformed by Michael Cusick & Toby Peach

Coney’s commsion piece was developed with advice from year 5 classes at Riversdale Pri-mary and Allfarthing Primary during workshops at BAC in Summer 2012. With thanks to the children involved and their teachers Camilla Foster and Kelly Sou.

Kirsty Harris & Matthew BlakeDespite Kirsty Harris and Matthew Blake having worked with BAC in various capaci-ties for a combined time of 13 years, this is their first collaboration together. Matthew has regularly created work with companies Gideon Reeling and Punchdrunk and is a vocalist & percussionist in a Music Hall band called The Dead Victorians. Kirsty is an artist and theatre

maker. She has worked with companies including WildWorks, Kneehigh and Punchdrunk. She also makes her own solo work and as part of the collective Ignore the Forecast. www.khmakesthings.co.ukVideos created Max Dovey www.maxdovey.co.uk Lighting Design: Greg Borrell (for BAC)

A six-week research and development period was undertaken at BAC and Falcon-brook Primary school in Spring 2012, during the making of this show, where ideas were developed in collaboration with children from year 4 and year 5. With thanks to all the children involved and their teachers, Zena Fish and Julia Fox.

Photographs by James Allan

Intrepid ExplorersBy Uninvited Guests in collaboration with Lewis Gibson

Formed in Bristol in 1998, Uninvited Guests make entertaining and provocative performance. Their work represents a contemporary reality, in which memories of movies are as much part of our experience as inti-mate dialogues with lovers. We work in various contexts and constellations, focusing mainly on performance but also producing installation and digital media. Recent work has blurred the line between theatre and social fes-tivities, with audiences joining us in events that are celebratory and elegiac, nostalgic and critical of these times. Previous projects include Guest House, Film, Offline, Live Chat, Schlock, Aftermath, It Is Like It Ought To Be: A Pastoral, Love Letters Straight From Your Heart, Make Better Please, The Last Judgement: A Descriptive Lecture at Intervals and Give me Back my Broken Night.

Uninvited Guests’ work has toured nationally and internationally, showing in the UK, China, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Slovenia, Austria, Australia, Portugal and Ireland.

Written and devised by: Paul Clarke, Richard Dufty and Lewis GibsonPerformed by: Richard Dufty, Simone Kenyon, Lakeisha Lynch-Stevens, Conrad Murray

Director: Paul ClarkeComposer and Sound Designer: Lewis GibsonProduction Manager: Richard CouldreyMusicians: Fulham Brass Band, The South London Fellowship Band, NLB Muswell Hill Brass Band, ENJO Southgate Jazz Orchestra, The Beatbox Academy and The Good Neighbour Brass Band - Jeffrey Brown, Rob Greenwood, Rob Harvey, Max Johnson, Alex Joyce, Joe Palmer and Chris-topher Preece.

Uninvited Guests are produced by Fuelwww.uninvited-guests.netwww.fueltheatre.com

With Thanks to:Lorinda Freint and all at Wandsworth Borough CouncilKazim Doleker (Café Parisienne)Susan Wear and Fiona Gonsalves (Battersea Library)Tom Ghannad (Hanne and Co)Laura Brooks (Asda)Sam Davidson, Wack Paine and Harry Singh (Debenhams)Anthony Gunson and all at Battersea MessMahmoud and Rasheed (Medleys)Keith Davies (Waitrose)Tref Davies for banner design and makingJess Hoffman for feedback and adviceMartin King for instrument makingStephen Martin for production supportSean Creighton, Jessi Pollack, Phillip Payne, Allegra Galvin and Sue Palmer for additional research.

Photograph by James Allan

The Good Neighbour Foyer InstallationCreated by Ruth Cross

Ruth Cross makes installations and live immersive experiences. She is fascinated by finding beautiful and adventurous ways of collecting and retelling people’s stories, whether this be a live performance in an unusual space, or touring round Europe with a writing desk with her project Post Present Future. She has a giant box containing over 4,500 hand written ‘let-ters to the future’ ready to be posted back to their eagerly awaiting owners’ after 5 years.

Ruth is the founder of Cross Collaborations, currently working with design-ers, ecologists, shopkeepers, musicians, engineers, artists and boat builders to make live and installed performances in empty shops round Cornwall.

Ruth would like to thank editor extraordinaire Faiqa Syed for her time and her smile.

postpresentfuture.blogspot.co.uk

With contributions from the following people and groups in the local community:

Caryl Davies, Jo Baxter & Janine Newton | Wandsworth Residential Association

Esther Clevely& Robert Musgrove | Providence House Youth Club

Andrew Beech | St Peter’s Church, Greater Winstanley People’s Organisation

Su Elliott & Lilias Giles | Wandsworth Older People’s Forum

Quyen Banh | Wandsworth Carers Centre

Mohammed Ali | Elays

Sedia Dedic | Women of Wandsworth

Susan Gibson | One O’clock Centre, York Gardens

Photographs by James Allan

The Good Neighbour is a BAC Production

The Good Neighbour Team

Artistic Director: David JubbCreative Director: Sarah GoldingLead Producer: Bethany HaynesProducers: Liz Moreton, Rosalie White and Sophie BradeyMarketing: Katie ElstonPress: Miranda MarcusCommunity Outreach: Monique Duchen & Jessi PollackProject Assistants: Nicole Zandi and Daniel KokProduction Manager: Sarah O’ConnorTechnicians: Greg Borrell, Mitch Hargreaves, Hannah May, Kevin MilesVolunteer Coordinator: Tim McFarlandDuty Manager: Jessie WyldFront of House: Sam Waters & Charlotte Turton

BAC Staff

Amy Jobling Senior Events CoordinatorAndrea Keogh Administration ManagerAnn Tan Senior AccountantAnne Wareing ApprenticeBethany Haynes ProducerBruce Brady Facilities CoordinatorCeline Gagnon Senior Development ManagerDaniel Kok ApprenticeDavid Jubb Artistic Director David Micklem Artistic DirectorEllie Robinson Marketing OfficerFezzan Ahmed Development ManagerFlorence Godet Administrative AssistantFoteini Aravani Digital Collections ManagerFran Du Pille Cook Up Project ManagerFreddie Huntington Sales and Business Development ManagerGreg Borrell Design TechnicianHannah May Production TechnicianJames Cheeseman BAC ChefJessica Moore Events Coordinator Jessie Wyld Apprentice

Jo Hunter Strategic Development ManagerKane Moore Capital Project FundraiserKatherine Jewkes Scratchr Project ManagerKatie Duffy Administrative AssistantKatie Elston Deputy Marketing ManagerKatie Roberts Project Manager Take OutKaty Smith Producing Team CoordinatorKevin Miles TechnicianLiz Moreton ProducerMai Pham Assistant Project AccountantMatias Pitkanen 2nd ChefMatthew Emery Maintenance TechnicianMiranda Marcus Press and Publications OfficerMitch Hargreaves TechnicianPhoebe Éclair Powell ApprenticePhilip Bentley Technical ManagerPhillip Payne Box Office ManagerRachel Henery Town Hall ManagerRebecca Holt Assistant to the Directors’ OfficeRemi Lacroix Project AccountantRichard Dufty Senior ProducerRoisin Feeny Project ManagerRosalie White ProducerSam Moloney General ManagerSarah O’Connor Production ManagerSarah Preece Executive DirectorSebastian Stern Marketing ManagerShelley Hastings Associate ProducerSophie Bradey ProducerStephanie Moss Events CoordinatorStuart Lawson Events Technical CoordinatorThea Jones Assistant to the Artistic DirectorsTim Hopkins ApprenticeTim McFarland ApprenticeTref Davies Capital Administrator

With special thanks to Ian Golding, Helen White, Sue Quelch, Tony and Margaret Golding, Emma and Evie Townrow, Juliet Desailly, ACE and our sponsors Bloomberg

And all our volunteers:

Production Runners:Reza RadFitzgerald HongerJames AddyAine PullanFaiqa SyedRose Alexander

Ushers:Tara OsmanJackie FergusonKim GillAndrea TrailaChloe Waters

Uninvited Guests Stewards:Julia ChaphamFrancesca HartRosa BrookLaura CarrollTashi BasakRichard TonksChiara BarassiAlice Lee FoxEmma BarltropRhian Marston Jones

Marketing Support:Lucile Van VlamertyngheEleanor Crouch

Photograph by James Allan

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