Immigrants, expats, global nomads, ‘citizens of nowhere.’
Come over to our place for a cup of tea, a biscuit, and a one-on-one performance of stories from our oral history library. We invite you to listen to the voices of our cross-cultural community, and add your own story to the library.
In this latest version of Home Is Where, Amy Clare Tasker and Susie Italiano create a new 15-minute headphone-verbatim interactive experience.
“I just belong to this world, that’s my nationality.
I’m global.”
Pictured: Julian Laverty & Susie Italiano interact with the Home Is Where… oral history library.
Performed in 2019 as part of Global Origins Theatre’s ARE WE THERE YET festival, featuring multidisciplinary art and performance from international and diasporic artists, at the CLF Art Cafe in the Bussey Building.
Home is Where… is now available for booking as a pop-up one-on-one experience.
ORAL HISTORY LIBRARY
Home Is Where… is created from interviews with Third Culture Kids and Cross-Culture Kids: people who grew up in a different culture than their parents and created their own hybrid identity. The live performance uses recordings of these interviews, and you can also listen to audio clips in our online oral history library.
CROSS CULTURAL RESOURCES
Are you a TCK or CCK looking for ‘home’? There are many resources out there for our growing global community. Welcome to the club!
Buzzfeed: 31 signs you’re a TCK
The book that named us
FIGT: conference, videos & research
TCKidNow: meet-ups & resources
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
Directed by Amy Clare Tasker – Written by Guleraana Mir – Music by Yaiza Varona
CAMDEN PEOPLE’S THEATRE 2016
Home Is Where… was “Born In D&D” and scratched at Camden People’s Theatre and The Cockpit in January & February 2016. We explored the idea of an Embassy for Third Culture Kids, using headphone verbatim performance, original music, and ensemble movement.
Movement by Paula Paz
Music by Yaiza Varona
Featuring Sharlit Deyzac, Joanna Greaney, Anna-Maria Nabirye, Mark Ota & Kal Sabir.
RICH MIX 2016
With support from Kings Place Music Foundation and Rich Mix, we spent the summer of 2016 devising a full-length performance. We framed the verbatim interviews in a dystopian future: if they’re sending everyone back where they came from, where do you go if you don’t know where home is?
Movement by Paula Paz
Music by Yaiza Varona
Featuring Sharlit Deyzac, Leonora Fyfe, Joanna Greaney, Mark Ota & Kal Sabir.
THEATRE DELI 2017
Taking apart our political dystopia, we remade a simpler framework for the interviews which centres the verbatim stories. Working in Theatre Delicatessen’s Old Library, away from a proscenium stage, we discovered the power of immersing the audience in an interactive library of stories.
Movement by EM Williams
Music by Yaiza Varona
Featuring Carmina Bernhardt, Sharlit Deyzac, Rachel Handshaw, Bert Roman & Andrew Troy
IMAGE CREDITS
Mark Ota, Kal Sabir, Joanna Greaney, Sharlit Deyzac, and Anna-Maria Nabirye at Camden People’s Theatre. Photo by Charlie Kerson.
Leonora Fyfe, Sharlit Deyzac, and Mark Ota at Rich Mix. Photo by Aslam Husain Photography.
Carmina Bernhard, Andrew Troy, Sharlit Deyzac, Bert Roman, and Rachel Handshaw at the Old Library. Photo by Daniel Pacquette.
Video by David Sentosa.
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