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Re-touring January 2010

"I'm No Hero"

Directed by Maggie Ford

Film Maker Roger Knott-Fayle

Designed by Calida Hartley

Lighting & Sound Design by Andy Purves

 

For Year 10+ and adult audiences  
Exploring Citizenship/History/Current Affairs
Type Multimedia Theatre
Length One Hour performance (+ Q & A, workshop & Teachers Pack)
Venue Tuesday 19th January 2.00

Wednesday 20th January 2.00 & 7.00

at the Old Library Theatre, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire         BOX OFFICE : 01623 633133

 

 

“I hope the play continues to touch wider audiences….It deserves to be used in every school”

Dr Dorothy Heathcote

 
"compelling, moving"
Daniel Buckroyd, Artistic Director of New Perspectives Theatre Company
 
 

"courageous, being able to pull people of different viewpoints together in their common humanity"

Teacher
 
It felt like you had invited me to process those emotions for myself and therefore I became part of the journey.
I can’t remember a time when this has happened to me.
Wendy Green, Arts Development Officer, Newark & Sherwood District Council, The Palace Theatre
 
"Very wonderful, very moving. An individual tour de force. Excellent script, video and multi-media"
University Lecturer

I'm no Hero is a new multi-media docu-drama theatre performance for young people and adult audiences touring in January 2009 to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.

I'm No Hero weaves the true stories of Irena Sendler who smuggled 2,500 Jewish children from Nazi occupied Warsaw to safety in potato sacks and toolboxes, together with Rachel Corrie, a young American who in 2003, stood up for the lives of ordinary Palestinians only to lose her life under the wheels of an Israeli bulldozer.

"We look through a window at the people who stand on the street corners of history -

on the edges of world events - but do any of us stand alone?"

This production will appeal to anyone who has an interest in the way both past and current conflicts, particularly events as they   continue to unfold in the Middle East and how this affect ordinary people’s lives, and asking the question:

 Why would an ordinary person do something extraordinary for someone they don’t even know?

 

"Fact based theatre calls attention to, and thus questions,

the credibility of the evidence on which we base our view of the world"

David Edgar The Guardian 27th September 2008

This production was created by five artists using verbatim material, documentary footage and commissioned film.  The process that the artists engaged covered a period of nine months of extensive research, experimentation and exploration with music, movement, physical theatre, mask and projected images/footage.

The click is work in progress: 

 

Photographs by:Matt Howcroft