Giants on Staffordshire Hills in Leek

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A new play based around windfarms and the impact they have on rural communities opens the new season of professional theatre at the Foxlowe Arts Centre in Leek.

The popular arts centre plays host to the inventive Giants On The Hill, a play which puts the focus on windfarms in rural areas – and which through the use of modified pedal bikes, actually powers the entire show live on stage.

Are windfarms a valuable and sustainable way to shift how we provide our energy? Or are they a financial liability and blight on our landscapes?

 

“Giants on the Hill” is a new piece of theatre written by Stephanie Dale, Directed by Peter Cann and presented by theatre company Centric Theatre and comes to the Leek on Friday 14 October.

In a show which is particularly appropriate for the Staffordshire Moorlands and the Peak District, three actor musicians will tell the story of a fictional rural community and the conflicts caused by the proposed siting of a windfarm in its vicinity.

The production is inventive and entertaining and tackles the wider concept of ‘energy’ with the actors creating sound effects onstage using wine glasses and other props. The performs even create their own energy to power the live show, in the form of special batteries to power their lights and technical equipment, which they create by pedalling on-stage bikes throughout the performance.

More about the creators

Stephanie Dale writes for stage, radio and large-scale theatre and she is a founder member of Centric, a collective of Midlands based practitioners. Recent work include: Passion; (As One Theatre, touring 2014) and Alice (Theatre in the Quarter, Chester, 2014).

Peter Cann  is a director and writer who works across opera, theatre and radio. He is a former Artistic Director of the acclaimed Shropshire based Pentabus Theatre Company

In autumn 2015 Centric went through a period of Research and Development. The team met with communities who have had direct experience of wind turbines in their area.  Meeting communities who have fought against them and won, and communities where plans for turbines have gone ahead.

The production is brought to Leek in association with the Live & Local touring network which is funded by the Arts Council, Staffordshire County Council and Staffordshire Moorlands District Council.

Giants on the Hill blows into Foxlowe Arts Centre in leek 14 October 2016.

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