We're still collecting donations
On the 31st October 2021 we'd raised £190 with 9 supporters in 28 days. But as every pound matters, we're continuing to collect donations from supporters.
An online bake sale benefitting We Never Get Off at Sloane Square, a new play by Amy Garner Buchanan
by Sloane Square Project in London, Greater London, United Kingdom
On the 31st October 2021 we'd raised £190 with 9 supporters in 28 days. But as every pound matters, we're continuing to collect donations from supporters.
"I thought suddenly that it was stupid to be so sentimental. What we needed was not a hero to worship but money. If we had money we could go anywhere. Give us the money and we would be the heroes." - 'The Last Samurai', Helen DeWitt
Raised in poverty by a depressed single mother, Ludo is convinced he can solve all their problems, if only he can find his father. His epic quest takes him from East London to the Arctic Circle, from mediaeval Japan to the depths of his mother's sadness, all without ever getting off the Circle Line. Based on Vulture's book of the century 'The Last Samurai', 'We Never Get Off at Sloane Square' is a smart and hopeful play, set simultaneously in 1990s London and inside the mind of an extraordinary child.
We want to connect with the people our play is about. The mental health charity Mind is partnering with us, and during lockdown we released The Sanity Download, a weekly newsletter detailing mental health and parenting resources. Our performance run includes a parent & baby matinee so parents are not excluded from seeing great theatre.
We are so proud of this play, and others who have seen it so far agree. For example, film industry professional Evelyn Xing (who reads a lot of bad scripts for a living) says: "Just like DeWitt's novel, Amy brings us a theatre project awe-inspiring in content and truly innovative in form. At the staged reading, the genius characters, quick-fire dialogue, and mind-bending structure effortlessly dazzled, flirting with the audience's expectations and challenging our perspectives on life, on the world, and on ourselves."
Amy and Hayley's work has been reviewed elsewhere (for their 2019 production 'Bruised Fruit', ****) as "a robust and effective collaboration...both Buchanan and Ricketson have a keen eye and ear for the power of storytelling". We are confident in our team's ability to do justice to this story!
Fill Bakery are generously partnering with us to help us get the final amount of cash flow we need to get this show on stage. They are a new, East-London based small business aiming for less food poverty and more vegan treats. And we can get behind that.
If you donate to the Sloane Square Project, you can choose to have your baked thankyou sent to you (if you live in the UK) or ask for us to donate it to the Hackney Food Bank.
Thank you for your support!
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