Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 March 2025, 7pm
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£20; £16 Concessions
1 hour
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In 2022 a show was cancelled while it was still in rehearsal.
The idea of what the show might be created a demand for it to be left unseen. A Little Inquest Into What We Are All Doing Here is a show about censorship and freedom of expression. This piece of theatre - part autobiography, part fiction - questions the limits of performance: what we make it for, what we go to it for and what we are willing to stand up for.
Following its acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe, ThisEgg's Fringe First award-winning show heads to Shoreditch Town Hall.
"This thoughtful and probing front line dispatch is delivered with an unexpectedly devastating theatrical swagger"
The Stage
"a celebration of expressing what you believe in despite the fear of how others might respond"
The Scotsman
Friday 14 March
Public Discourse: Who Has the Power to decide?
A show was shut down before anyone had even seen it. But what does this really say about power, censorship, and the state of public debate in the UK? Who gets to decide what’s acceptable, and on whose behalf? Join us post-show for a discussion on censorship in the arts, free speech, and the challenges of disagreement in today’s political and digital landscape.
The panel will include journalist Sophie Wilkinson, theatre producer and climate activist Chloe Naldrett, and theatre maker and community organiser Linzy Na Nakorn. The panel will be chaired by Shoreditch Town Hall board member and creative Deborah Yewande Bankole.
In association with ZOO. Developed at Camden People's Theatre, Streatham Space Project, Old Diorama Arts Centre & New Diorama Theatre. With thanks to Shoreditch Town Hall.
During the run of this show, the lift at the front of our building will be temporarily inaccessible, as we will be installing a new ramp. However, we are committed to ensuring that all our visitors can access the building comfortably. An alternative lift is available at the rear of the building, please contact our team in advance to let us know if you will need to use it: info@shoreditchtownhall.com
We apologise for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding!
Lead Artist, Performed & Produced by: Josie Dale-Jones
Performer: Laurence Baker
Text by: Abbi Greenland
Director: Rachel Lemon
Dramaturg: Laurence Cook
Lighting Designer: James Mackenzie
Sound Designer: Carmel Smickersgill
Additional songs and music: John Biddle with Stephanie Levi-John
Outside Eye: Paula Varjack
Artist Wellbeing Consultant: Nikki Disney
Sophie is a journalist for the likes of The Guardian and Observer, Times and Sunday Times, Vogue, The i Paper and more. Her patch is broad, from women's rights and healthcare to lighter pop culture stories. Her #MeToo investigations have resulted in powerful men stepping down from their roles. In 2021/2022 she worked as a Senior Researcher at the Center for Countering Digital Hate with a focus on misogyny. She led a report into Instagram’s misogyny on Direct Message, which was cited by both benches during an Online Safety Act debate and led to a Meta policy change.
Chloe is the co-director of Sustainable Entertainment: the first independent commercial theatre production company to commit to Green Book standards in all its shows, which she set up with Sean Foley in 2024. She has previously been Executive Producer at Birmingham Rep and Bristol Old Vic, was Associate Producer at National Theatre Productions for War Horse and One Man, Two Guv’nors and worked in the West End for six years at Mark Rubinstein Ltd. She has been an activist with Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil and Culture Declares Emergency and is the mother of two teenage boys.
Linzy Na Nakorn is a movement director, dance/theatre maker and community organiser. She uses dance and movement as a tool for the creation of socially engaged, immersive and participatory performance for stage, screen and non-conventional theatre spaces both nationally and internationally. Linzy is a facilitator of regenerative activism practices, working with activists and campaigners to explore sustainable futures through organising tools, politicised somatics and structures of care. She is a current artist in residence at Knowle West Media Centre, a practitioner for Frantic Assembly and a lecturer in movement and immersive practice for Bristol School of Acting.
Deborah is a creative and producer with over 10 years experience developing, curating and producing multi-disciplinary art at scale. She currently works at the Southbank Centre as a producer, with a specialism in festival production and public space work.
As a creative, Deborah’s work has branched out towards the immersive and she is currently one the co-directors of a new multi-sensory work by experiential company BitterSuite, which is in research and development with Oxford University’s Cultural Programme.
Her freelance work has seen work as journalist with the Huffington Post UK, host panels and in conversations at the likes of We Out Here Festival and The Albany as well as write short stories, for which she won the 2021 Word Factory Prize.
As a born and bred Londoner who is a product of participatory schemes and projects, Deborah is passionate about the arts having an inbuilt agility to find, meet and develop new talent as well as serving as a third space for local audiences. Deborah is also a Trustee for Shoreditch Town Hall.
Credit: Alex Brenner