Josh Coates


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Sunday Morning


2021 - Ongoing

In development

Originally developed for Ongoing Project's Tender Absence platform and supported through Unity Theatre’s Open Call

Sunday Morning is a walking tour of the internet which takes audiences through the history of trespass and asks how we can occupy digital spaces in similar ways. An invitation to inhabit the internet with dissenting intent, to claim dead websites and squat them to create new spaces for protest and organising. The show focuses on two pieces of land and explores their history, Winter Hill in Bolton and Walshaw Moor in Hebden Bridge and compares how their treatment by landowners has a greater impact on the climate as well as local workers.


Sunday Morning ties these stories together through other stories of wealthy landlords/landowners contributing to large scale carbon emissions/environmental damage. It’s a collage of capitalistic horror. The show focuses on hyper-local  examples of environmental damage and offers overtly anti-capitalist methods of direct action.


Audiences will experience Sunday Morning in the theatre and from the comfort of their own home via HitchHiker, which was created by Todd Anderson
"HitchHiker is a chrome extension for doing live performances inside other people’s web browsers. A performer creates a room and any number of audience members can join through the extension interface. Whenever the performer goes to a new website on their computer, all of the audience members are taken to that website. The performer can then modify the content of the website, speak through text-to-speech voice, play sounds or layer images on top of the screen, all of which is conveyed onto every audience members’ browser."



Created by Josh Coates, Naomi Cull, Adèle Le Gallez and James Varney with the support of Unity Theatre Liverpool and HOME Manchester. Special thanks to Anna West, Kieran Lucas and Sascha Gilmour. HitchHiker was developed by Todd Anderson.