For the past three years, people from different communities in Leeds, Uganda and Kenya have been exploring a single question.
What does communication mean to us?
Through drama, music, creative writing and performance, participants have shared stories, listened to one another and explored communication through their own experiences as part of the international Communication & Creativity project. Now, for the first time, the three Leeds community groups come together to build something new.
In Other Words is an original performance created during a five-day residency at the University of Leeds, inspired by communication across cultures, generations and lived experiences.
Built from three years of conversations and five days of creating together, In Other Words invites audiences into a performance shaped by shared stories, collaboration and creativity.
Tickets are free but booking is essential.
The performance lasts approximately one hour and takes place at The Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds.
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In Other Words is a new performance created during a week-long residency at the University of Leeds.
Drawing on three years of creative collaboration between communities in Leeds, Uganda and Kenya, the performance brings together participants, musicians and theatre-makers to explore communication across cultures, generations and lived experiences.
Tickets are free, but booking is essential.
About the Creative Team
This performance is directed by Tamsin Cook, Co-Artistic Director of Mafwa Theatre, and created alongside an international team of artists.
South African musician and composer Thanda Gumede brings together traditional African music with jazz, gospel, classical music and neo-soul to create the production’s original musical landscape.
Performance artist and filmmaker Mahshid Alavizadeh, from Tehran, Iran, contributes her movement-based practice exploring identity, migration and human connection.
The creative team also includes Ali Campbell, theatre facilitator, whose internationally recognised work draws on Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, and assistant director Thiptawan Uchai, a Thai theatre artist and applied theatre practitioner whose work centres on creativity, communication and community engagement.
Further information
Communication and Creativity: An Arts-Based Study Focusing on Marginalised East African Communities in Kenya, Uganda and the United Kingdom. This project was founded by Professor Jane Plastow and is concerned with communication and creativity, seeing the two as linked and essential to fully human development. This is a three year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.