I'm no Hero

Ava Hunt in association with Tangere Arts are @ Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2010

"I'm No Hero"

Directed by Maggie Ford

Film Maker Roger Knott-Fayle

Lighting & Sound Design by Andy Purves

Dramaturgy by Lin Coghlan

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		For	anyone over the age of 12
		Type	Multimedia, verbatim Theatre
		Length	50 min performance followed by Q & A or "The Dress" short film on alternate nights by Maggie Ford
		Dates/Times	9th -14th August 9.30-10.35 16th-21st August 5.30-7.35
		Venue	Diverse Attractions, Riddles Court, 322 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2PG - BOX OFFFICE: 0131 225 8961

“I hope the play continues to touch wider audiences….

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 - compelling multi-media docu-drama theatre performance based on the lives of two women.

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.

But, 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 (the material for Rachel Corrie is her own words from diaries, and emails, Irena Sendler's story is also from published material from interviews she gave), 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 and sound.

Performances will be followed on alternate nights by a 10-15 minute Q & A - fascinating back stories surround these two women's lives, opportunity to discuss issues raised by the performance/material, or showing of "The Dress" a short human rights film directed by Maggie Ford - "Striking" Jay Mircale - Emmy Award Winner

The click is work in progress:

Photographs by:Matt Howcroft