"A truly wonderful show… an experience our children will never forget"
— Sally Hudson, Middleton Primary School
There is a shop – a big shop – in the middle of a busy shopping centre. But this shop doesn’t sell toys, or food, or mobile telephones – this shop sells stories. The show took you on a magical shopping trip with vampire shopkeepers, moody book-shop customers and Lilly’s first day at her glasses shop. During the summer of 2009, NIE began holding storytelling workshops in schools in and around Peterborough, gathering over 1000 stories asking young people to imagine what and who might be in a shop. These stories were then whittled down, rehearsed and interwoven to make Tales from the Middle of Town.
There is a shop – a big shop – in the middle of a busy shopping centre. But this shop doesn’t sell toys, or food, or mobile telephones – this shop sells stories.
The show took you on a magical shopping trip with vampire shopkeepers, moody book-shop customers and Lilly’s first day at her glasses shop. During the summer of 2009, NIE began holding storytelling workshops in schools in and around Peterborough, gathering over 1000 stories asking young people to imagine what and who might be in a shop. These stories were then whittled down, rehearsed and interwoven to make Tales from the Middle of Town.
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Credits
Director: Alex Byrne
Production Manager: Elke Laleman
Scenography: Marie Rozendahl Chemnitz
Musical Director: Carly Davis
Workshop Leader: Hannah Whelan
Cast
Kieran Edwards, Elisabet Topp, Lenka Rozenhalov, Jiří N. Jelínek, Unai Lopez de Armentia, Carly Davis, Lianne Harvey.
With support from Eastern Angles: Ivan Cutting, Jill Streatfield, Karen Goddard, Steve Cooney, Hazel Hicks.
Production support: Alex Airey and Stuart Payn, Simon Allen, Simon Howchin, Emma-Louise Lavinia Crossan, Anne Hoff, Joseph Hostead, Natalie Ellis.
Volunteer support: Lianne Harvey, Natalie Ellis, Tom Fox
Previous touring
A large disused shop unit in the town centre, where we performed the show for 2 weeks, playing to over 1000 people. In 2009 we used this model of working for a show, Das Schiff and in 2012 it formed the basis for our co-production with The Unicorn Theatre in London, Tales from the River Thames.
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The project "NIE Theatre - Graphic design/branding" is financed by the European Union - NextGenerationEU within the Creative Vouchers program by Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.