AS SUMMER ENDS
STRANGERS WILL LAND

15 September - 7 October 2017

EVERYONE MUST DECIDE
WHAT TO HOLD ON TO
WHAT TO LEAVE BEHIND

The Landings was a 5 km performance journey accessed by walking the hinterland of fields, drainage channels, sunken lanes, railway lines and shore between Blue Anchor and Minehead towards dusk. Here audiences encountered a cast of 20 performers aged 5 to 70.

It came about because of the death of Alan Kurdi, a 3-year-old Syrian boy who drowned trying to reach Europe in September 2015.

The performance involved two entry points and multiple pathways, which allowed audiences to decide how to navigate through the land depending on which performance encounters they stayed with, and which they left behind.

Whether in quiet copses, on little-used farm tracks or at isolated railways crossings, audiences walked with, joined and left performers all tied to a need to keep going, despite the unknown ahead.


Devised & performed by
Mae Tanner, Archie Tanner, Lenny Shorten, Ernie Shorten, Ethan Keal, Raffy Bruce, Jesse Bruce, Poppy Bishop, Ben Wisken, Tilly Webber, Jonathan Vitkunas, Carol Turner, Jack Segison, Faith Prendergast, Alessandro Levy, Gerard Bell, Sophie Arstall, Tilly Lee-Kronick

Artistic Direction Sarah Shorten

Design/Stage Management Ruth Webb

Musicians Ben Moneypenny, Sebastian Tesouro and Felix Vanderluis

Producer Fiona Fraser-Smith

Photography Rod Higginson


“Beautifully measured, held, crafted and performed”

Rosemary Lee OBE
Choreographer

“This is what we should be doing with art and performance. Impacting, making people think, going to the boundaries of our souls”

Tilly Webber
Landings performer