A world première from The Paper Birds, Mobile, will be the first show in the new Live Garden, the public park and performance area linking Live Theatre with Newcastle’s Quayside which is being developed as part of Live Works.
Set and performed in a caravan, Mobile is an intimate piece of theatre about class, family, aspiration and belonging. Made for audiences of up to 9 people at a time, this 40-minute show is based on interviews conducted in communities across the UK.
Mobile explores our sense of home, belonging, aspiration, the realities of social mobility, its benefits and potential costs, and is based on personal testimonies collected in community workshops, research by collaborator Professor Sam Friedman and the company's own lives.
When Cindy's comfortable graduate life begins to unravel, she can't bring herself to move 'back home' and instead finds herself living in her mother's caravan. As she shares her story, her conflicted thoughts and feelings are joined by the voices of others from all walks of lives.
It opens at Live Theatre on 8 June and will run until 26 before touring the UK in July.
A Live Theatre and The Marlowe Theatre co-commission, created by The Paper Birds, Mobile is directed by Jemma McDonnell, and will be performed by Kylie Walsh and Georgie Coles.
After the Live première, Mobile tours until November 2016, with locations including The Marlowe Theatre, outside a bank on Canterbury High Street, in schools in Kent, at the Latitude Festival, at The Turner Contemporary, in Margate and at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth.