Key Seeds Double Bill: What Are We Looking For? & What Would The Neighbours Think
Sat 3 MayProudly supported by Landmark Theatres Key Seeds Programme.
“You are asking me to describe a gap. Something that has become an empty space”
A woman goes missing and the world looks for her.
They look at every single detail of her.
A new play interrogating the unstoppable rise of media sleuths and our obsession with True Crime, this play tackles the dangerous phenomenon of Missing White Woman syndrome and what happens when crime against women becomes a genre of entertainment.
Blending theatre, audio drama and podcast culture, this is a new way to experience true crime podcasts and unravel the darker side of the stories we can’t seem to stop ourselves listening to.
About the Artist:
Emma is an award-winning writer from Spalding. Described as ‘one of the undoubted stars of the future’ (Broadway Baby), her work has been performed at Pleasance, Soho Theatre, Mercury Theatre, Leicester Curve and featured on BBC Introducing. She’s also been recognised by various writing prizes, winning the Michael Ross Award, a Boundless Accelerator Award and shortlisted for prizes such as The Stage Innovation Award, Women in Theatre Lab, the International Playwriting Prize and The Stagey Place Edinburgh Award. ‘Bold, unflinching and impossible to ignore’, she’s interested in using theatre to break audience expectations and ask daring, theatrical questions about every day encounters.
What Would The Neighbours Think attempts to look at the current conflicts within the country around the reaction to the Refugee Crisis. It follows the story of a community in the East of England and their reaction to their local restaurant and hotel being turned into a migrant hotel. How does a community deal with drastic change and what will be the effect of the new residents. We also focus on the story of a young boy living in the hotel and the journey of his family to that place so far away from the home they loved.
What Would The Neighbours Think Was conceived in early 2024 in the build up to the summer election. With the rise of reform and the summer of mass unrest, The work attempts to examine the countries relationship with Migration, Refugees and how welcoming we really are as a nation.
About the Artist:
Sam is a Neurodiverse theatre maker, with a focus on Directing and Writing. He has worked extensively thought out the east of England and is Artistic Director of Novus Theatre. He has been making work with the company for Over 10 years, but has only started developing his own practice as a writer since 2022.
He is currently a member of the current Tour the Writer intake for Paines Plough and has just received his first commission, working with The Place Theatre in Bedford.
Sam has also worked extensively as a producer with organisations such as Bedford Creative Arts, The Culture Trust and Revoluton Arts.
