Box Office The Home
Fri 13 Feb
In the post-war London of the 1950s, the smart, strong-willed ball of energy that is seven-year-old Uma lives with her brothers and her working-class parents; Ronnie and Shahine. When Uma is removed from the family home by the state and placed indefinitely in a rural, convalescent home, a personal odyssey begins.
Uma must contend with the formidable Matron, racist bullying and a hostile environment. Cut off from her family; armed only with her trusty teddy bear; Uma will learn a new meaning for the word home.
Writer Gill Parsons is a retired lecturer and magistrate. The Home was developed from her own lived experience as a child in the 1950s.
Co-created by Claire Coaché and Lisle Turner of multi-award winning company Open Sky, The Home is a brand-new live theatre production combining new writing with physicalised performance, object manipulation, sound design and music.
Co-created by Claire Coaché and Lisle Turner of multi-award winning company Open Sky, The Home is a brand-new live theatre production combining new writing with physicalised performance, object manipulation, sound design and music.
The play is at times funny and joyous but also contains some more challenging themes and moments of conflict. These includes some period appropriate racist and class-based bullying and a brief stylised, scene that implies self-harm. Ultimately this is a play about the importance of family, resilience and healing and as such is suitable for ages 12+ .
The performance is followed by a Q&A session.
Co-devised and Performed by Genevieve Sabherwal
Co-created by Claire Coaché & Lisle Turner
Written by Gill Parsons
Produced by Kama Roberts for Open Sky
Designed by Ioana Curelea
Lighting Designed by Sophie Moore
Sound Designed by Tic Ashfield
Duration: 75 mins