"Where are you from?"
"'Citizen of the world.'"
"Yea?"
"Yes."
"Right... knew you wasn’t from round here."
Two people. One is late home. The other has no home to go to. One stands at a bus stop. The other
stands on the edge of our world, unable to stay, unable to go. One protests their innocence on a mobile
phone, the other by starving themselves. Why are people driven to such desperate acts of resistance?
What has happened to our culture when we do not notice what happens to 'other' people?
Stitch Up is about the alien and the alienated, the individual and community,
freedom and necessity. At turns both funny and disturbing it is undoubtedly a play of our times.
This new play is the startling follow-up to Dereliction by Chris Cooper, in a series of 'fear and anger'
plays about young people on the margins of society. It will be the centre of a theatre-in-education
programme that will tour in the autumn of 2010, a year of work that Big Brum has dedicated to the
UN Year of Youth and the EU Year of Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.
Stitch Up is a new theatre-in-education programme based around an extraordinary original play by
Chris Cooper. Combining world-class theatre for young people with participatory workshop activities,
Stitch Up creates opportunities for refl ection, problem-solving and creative thinking, cultivating
innovative approaches to teaching and learning in the classroom.
Stitch Up has cross-curricular appeal, off ering teachers of PSHE and Citizenship a meaningful
springboard for tackling topics of community, identity and diversity, and as a powerful stimulus for the
exploration of theatre and its conventions within GCSE/BTEC/A Level Drama and Theatre Studies.
The programme will be touring schools from October to December 2010.
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To book, or for more information, please contact:
Claire Procter, Big Brum Theatre-in-Education, Pegasus Infant and Junior School, Turnhouse Road,
Castle Vale, Birmingham, B35 6PR.
Tel: 0121 4644607 Mob: 07736 324818 Fax: 0121 4644605 E-mail: claire@bigbrum.plus.com
