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We asked young people, living in today’s world of Google and mobile phones, to write to us and ask us anything. Nothing was off limits. We received over 100 letters from across the UK. This show is our reply.
Inspired by the magazine problem pages we read growing up in the 90s and 00s, in Ask Me Anything The Paper Birds become the agony aunts. The show explores what young people think, want and worry about today. It’s about what different generations can learn from each other.
This is a show for teenagers, parents, grandparents, and everyone in between, who, like us, are still figuring it all out. So, take off your shoes, pull up a cushion, and come on in.
Audience experience guidance:
Suitable for ages 13+. Contains themes of mental health and youth suicide.
This scheme of work is packaged as a 4-lesson bundle.
LESSON 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE PAPER BIRDS AND PREMISE OF ‘ASK ME ANYTHING’
LESSON 2: WATCH THE SHOW (1hr 20 mins)
LESSON 3: POST-SHOW DISCUSSION WITH CAST & CREATIVE TEAM + RESOURCE PACK
LESSON 4: PRACTICAL WORKSHOP FOR REMOTE LEARNING
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‘Ask Me Anything’ script published by Oberon also available to buy in our online shop.
Includes video, resource pack and script.
Ice-creams, suitcases, floorboards and buttons tell the physically and visually moving tale of a young Eastern European girl and her journey to England.
A beautifully woven patchwork of accounts, misunderstanding, movement, text and original music; a touching and delicate depiction of the violent, isolated and brutal world home to thousands of women forced into the British sex trade. ‘In a Thousand Pieces’ sees stories, events, voices and settings packed up and unpacked from battered and bruised suitcases by battered and bruised women; whilst their stories fracture, reform, repeat and take on new shapes and forms exploring the epidemic of sex slavery.
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Includes video, resource pack and script.
Based on our nation’s love affair with alcohol, Thirsty weaves together real booze based confessions collected from a ‘drunken hotline’ and hundreds of questionnaires answered by young and old.
From nightclubs to working men’s clubs, from house parties to dinner parties; Thirsty relays tales from the happy hours to the early hours. Fusing live music, verbatim text and stunning physical theatre, The Paper Birds examine binge drinking culture in the UK; lost memories, gained traumas, tales of bruised knees, uncontrollable laughter, urine stained beds and sore heads. A dynamic theatrical exploration delving beyond statistics, facts and figures Thirsty looks to the faces and the voices of everyone who likes a drink and asks why as a Nation are we so thirsty?
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Includes video, resource pack and script.
Displaced families, gambling addictions and beans on toast. Real life stories from the front line of poverty and debt in the UK.
Question: Sally is British and broke. If Britain owes over £900 billion in National debt and Sally has been on minimum wage for most of her working life with the interest on her debt being equal to her monthly outgoings, then who is more broke, Britain or Sally? Based on interviews taken across the UK in 2014, multi award winners The Paper Birds explore, with real life stories from the front line of poverty and debt, what it means to be broke in this visually stunning production.
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