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.
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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."
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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.