Join us for preview performances that conclude a Research and Development phase of 'The Rising Damp & other Tails'!

Set on a stormy night in the depths of a raging housing crisis, this immersive, site-specific performance retells Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid as an exploitative love story between a merman and an estate agent. The audience are potential buyers and guided around the property by the estate agent.

Featuring songs written and sung by members of Meeting Point and Solace Nordoff and Robbins.

This work challenges ideas of property ownership within the cost of living and housing crisis, engaging communities in Leeds in creative explorations of these themes.

We will conduct interviews and facilitate songwriting workshops with people without access to affordable, decent homes. These encounters will be recorded and the voices will ‘occupy’ the property interrupting the estate agent’s attempts to lead the viewing. The performance challenges the notion of property ownership, imagining a future where need rather than money has more capital.

TEAM

Direction/ performance: Marianne Tuckman

Performance and Artistic Collaboration: Marco Gonazales

Sound Design: Francisco Petrucci

Light Design: Nicolas San Martin

Production: Joao Maio and Belisa Branças

Outreach Workshops Facilitation: Luke Wilson and Georgie Buchanen

Featuring music by Lulla Hush

Supported by Leeds City Council and Volcano Theatre