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Edinburgh Festival 2010 "I'm No Hero" Directed by Maggie Ford Film Maker Roger Knott-Fayle Designed by Calida Hartley Lighting & Sound Design by Andy Purves
 "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 performed at 2010 Edinburgh Festival following a schools and colleges tour of East Midlands. The performance is a new multi-media docu-drama theatre performance for young people and adult audiences. 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 do ordinary people do something extraordinary for people 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 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
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