A wide array of new work is presented at Camden People’s Theatre in this year's Sprint festival.
Finished new work sits aside early sharings and scratch performances. There is also homegrown work from Camden Youth Theatre.
Themes cover lifestyles, relationships, bums (as in bottoms), technology and black masculinity.
Amongst the highlights are If Britney Could Get Through 2007, We Can Get Through This from non-binary artist Jo Hague, Emma Stirling & Nick Finegan’s Just Like Real Life, Holly Gallagher’s Before (the Line is Lost) and Factory Irregular’s Anglo version of the Chinese work Together.
Barbican Young Poet Kit Finnie presents her début show Mabel and Mickey about movie star Mabel Normand, Rhys Slade-Jones reads his Mam’s diary in The Land of my Fathers and my Mothers and Some Other People, and Fat Kid Running from Katherine McMahon is a sometimes moving, sometimes funny exploration of the complicated business of being in a body.
Spoken-word works include Sunked by Chris White about the Titanic, salvage, salvation and Celine Dion and Fat Kid Running from Katherine McMahon a sometimes moving, sometimes funny exploration of the complicated business of being in a body. In Belle Jones and Nova Sound's Closed Doors spoken word is mixed with live music to tell the stories of residents when their block of flats is evacuated.
Work-in-progress includes Nouveau Riche's Typical about the death of paratrooper Christopher Alder, autobiographical Bottom opens up the queer experience from Willy Hudson, and in Hold Me Closer: A Guide on How to Give Good Hugs Camilla Borges introduces the power of hugging.
Sprint 2018 runs at Camden People’s Theatre from 5 to 24 March.