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Powder Keg
2016 until 2021
A collaboration between Emma Geraghty, Ross McCaffrey, Jake Walton and Josh Coates
Bears
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The planet is decaying at a steady rate. Glaciers are collapsing as crops are drying up, and the world gets warmer every day.
The planet is decaying at a steady rate. Glaciers are collapsing as crops are drying up, and the world gets warmer every day. This is your invitation to watch the world crumble as three bears sniff away at its carcass. BEARS is a self-destructive, visceral excavation of our role in climate change.
Powder Keg are a Manchester based theatre company who were awarded the 2016 Hodgkiss award – designed to support the realisation of a brand new piece of ambitious theatre by an exceptional artist or company in the North of England.
Morale is High ( Since We Have Up Hope)
2016 - 2017
Powder Keg’s double act debut performance explores the effects of popular culture, political policy and inane day-to-day actions on who we choose to vote for.
A fast paced,
raucous performance weaving together time travel, intertwining
narratives and songs performed live to predict what might happen between
now and a future general election in 2022. Powder Keg’s double act
debut performance explores the effects of popular culture, political
policy and inane day-to-day actions on who we choose to vote for.
This is Where it Happened
2019
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Let the award-winning Manchester theatre company, Powder Keg be your storytelling guides on a ‘curious’ journey around familiar local landmarks.
Based on true stories and real-life events shared by the people of Didsbury, This Is Where It Happened is a promenade performance piece that takes its audience on a short walking tour around the local area.
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Storytellers will guide the audience on a fascinating journey through familiar neighbourhoods and popular local places, and invite them to view what they see differently. Turning the ordinary and mundane into an extraordinary adventure, award-winning theatre-makers Powder Keg hope to inject a sense of curiosity into the everyday. Delivering stories of the history and real-life accounts of events and landmarks, This Is Where It Happened promises to be a unique and unmissable performance experience.
2019
Let the award-winning Manchester theatre company, Powder Keg be your storytelling guides on a ‘curious’ journey around familiar local landmarks.
Based on true stories and real-life events shared by the people of Didsbury, This Is Where It Happened is a promenade performance piece that takes its audience on a short walking tour around the local area.
Storytellers will guide the audience on a fascinating journey through familiar neighbourhoods and popular local places, and invite them to view what they see differently. Turning the ordinary and mundane into an extraordinary adventure, award-winning theatre-makers Powder Keg hope to inject a sense of curiosity into the everyday. Delivering stories of the history and real-life accounts of events and landmarks, This Is Where It Happened promises to be a unique and unmissable performance experience.