slow violence
Welcome to the Happy Holiday’s office.
It’s Peter’s first day. Unfortunately this office isn’t looking like the best working environment. For a start, the roof’s leaking; the printer keeps setting on fire, and the heating doesn’t turn off. The fact that everyone seems to be ignoring these facts is even more worrying.
Slow Violence is a timely absurd comedy about climate change and our attitudes towards it.
Slow Violence is commissioned by China Plate, In Good Company, Warwick Arts Centre, Attenborough Arts Centre, Midlands Arts Centre. Supported by Derby Theatre, Big House (ERDF), New Perspectives, Camden People’s Theatre, University of Leeds Cultural Institute, Hawkwood, Strike A Light Festival and The Reckitt Arts Trust. With funding from Arts Council England.
Creative team
Devised and Performed by Laura Ryder & Harry Kingscott
Set & Costume Design - Maria Terry
Composer and Sound Design - Ivan Stott
Lighting Design - Pete Rickards
Directorial/Dramaturgical support - Jack McNamara
Producer - Rafia Hussain
Wellbeing Practitioner - Lou Platt
PASt Tour Dates 2021
5th October - Stage@Leeds
6th October - Nottingham Playhouse
7th October - Waterside Arts Centre
8th October - Derby Theatre
13th October - mac Birmingham
15th October - Attenborough Arts Centre , Leicester
16th October - Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton (Live Streamed and BSL interpreted)
Reading list
What we read when we were making Slow Violence.
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor by Rob Nixon
An Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
Into the Woods by John Yorke
No is not Enough by Naomi Klien
Feral by George Monbiot
Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
Climate Justice by Mary Robinson
This Changes Everything by Naomi Klien
The World Ending Fire by Wendell Berry
Violence by Slavoj Zizek
Hidden Nature by Alys Fowler
Hope in The Dark by Rebecca Solnit
Industrial Strength Denial by Barbara Freese
