31 August - 21 September 2024
Twine
31 August - 21 September 2024
About
"I don’t want to make an adoption show! Too private, too personal, too intimate, too triggering, too scary, and too many ramifications you can't control!"
The Writer has broken this promise; this show is the consequence.
This is Twine—an adoption show. Meet Bark, Sapling and Seed, they will take the Writer on a journey showing us all what our families are and all they could be.
Set in a forest of bloody eggs, ghost family members, vaudeville politicians and broken TVs, this is a twisted liberation. A story of how one shattering moment can transform multiple family trees for generations to come.
Inspired by a true story, this is a show haunted by Stuart Hall, bell hooks, Kat Slater (yes, that one from Eastenders) and Medea (yes, that Greek woman scorned). Taboos will be broken. Yearnings and desires will grow deeper—richer and riskier—than we ever could have imagined.
DATES & TIMES
31 August - 21 September
Monday - Saturday, 7.30pm
PREVIEWS*
31 August - 4 September, 7:30pm
MATINEES
Every Saturday starting 7 September, 2:30pm
RUNNING TIME
2 hours and 5 minutes, excluding a 15-minute interval
*Previews are a set of public performances that take place before the official opening of a production. Tickets for these nights are sold at a reduced rate.
HOW TO BOOK
ONLINE
Just click the 'BOOK NOW' button to purchase tickets online. A £1.50 booking fee will apply.
BOX OFFICE
You can book tickets over the phone, call us at 07756734172, Monday to Thursdays, 10am-5.30pm. A £3 booking fee will apply except for access bookings.
WAYS TO SAVE
Tickets start from £10 - the earlier in the run you book, the cheaper it'll be.
NO EMPTY SEATS
If you’re aged 27 and under, you can get £5 tickets on the door to all performances that are not sold out with #NoEmptySeats.
CONCESSIONS
If you're aged 27 and under, 65+, a student, or unwaged, tickets are cheaper.
GROUP BOOKINGS
If you’d like to make a group booking (10+ tickets) please email marketing@theyardtheatre.co.uk.
ACCESS & SUITABILITY
ACCESS
Access tickets are priced as concessions and can be booked online. We offer free tickets for companions, and these must be booked by emailing marketing@theyardtheatre.co.uk
SUITABILITY
Recommended for ages 14+
CONTENT GUIDANCE
This show contains haze effects, flashing lights, and loud noises, and references themes involving discrimination and oppression, physical and child abuse, neglect, miscarriage, death and grief including the loss of children, and infanticide.
Using a single adoption file as a starting point, the work explores the long-term impact of social care systems, including adoption, foster care, prison, and judicial systems, and the circumstances that lead to people being caught up in those systems, and the harm they can inflict.
This includes but is not limited to physical abuse and neglect, miscarriage, the death of an infant, and of a sibling; and family separation and breakdown. The show looks at the long-term impact of traumatic events, grief, poor mental health, and the impact of discrimination and oppression grappled with head-on.
Cast & Team
Muki Zubis
- Bark
Nandi Bhebhe
- Seed
Angelina Chudi
- Sapling
team
Commissioned by The Yard Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, Live Theatre, Theatre in the Mill & Cambridge Junction with support from the Stobbs New Ideas Fund. With support from ‘Support Not Separation’ & the foster parents, adopters, social workers, academics, artists & activists that have shared their stories.
WRAPAROUND EVENTS
Post-Show Talk with Selina Thompson
Saturday 14 September 2024
Matinee Post-Show
4pm-6pm
Please join Selina Thompson Ltd for an informal post-show discussion with Interdisciplinary Artist Bobby Baker, Anne Neale (a founding member of Support Not Separation Coalition), Academic and Researcher Miranda Armstrong and Crissie Amiss from the Women of Colour, Global Women’s Strike. A space for our panel guests, adoption & fostering community (Activists, Social Workers, Adoptees & Artists) and audience to share and reflect on thoughts inspired by Twine.
The discussion will take place directly after the matinee performance and is included as part of the ticket to the performance.
