We're bringing Trap Street to New Diorama Theatre in March 2018 - please help us achieve the show's ambitious design!
It‘s 1963 and the concrete’s just been poured for a brand new housing estate. It’s beautiful, not because of the clean lines, indoor toilets and wide windows, but because the idea behind it is beautiful. This is the future, and it’s for everyone.
In March 2018, acclaimed theatre-makers Kandinsky will return to New Diorama Theatre, where they are a supported company, with Trap Street.
It’s 2018 and the last tower of the estate is about to come down. The dream that saw it built has long since died and now the estate has to follow suit to make way for new buildings, based on new ideas. This is the future, whether you like it or not.
A ‘trap street’ is a street that doesn’t really exist, put into maps to expose anyone plagiarising them. Trap Street is set in a building stuck between existence and non-existence: the last tower of a huge mid-20th century estate, sat waiting to be demolished. Andrea grew up here, though after she bought her flat in the late eighties she’s barely been back - but now they’re knocking it all down, part of London’s ever-changing face, and she’s come home to reclaim what’s hers.
Trap Street charts 50 years of changing attitudes to ownership and space in London, to ask what home means in 2018.
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Kandinsky makes theatre slowly, alternating periods of research and writing with periods of in-room devising, and our amazing co-design team Joshua Gadsby and Naomi Kuyck-Cohen have been involved with the project from its earliest R&D periods in 2017. They have some great ideas for the look and feel of the show which we're keen to turn into a reality.
Trap Street is fundamentally a show about space – how we own it, occupy it and share it (or don’t) – and its design vital to the story we're telling. Every penny donated here will bring us closer to realising our creative team's ambitions and creating a unique theatrical journey for our audiences.
No support is too small and we will be so grateful for anything you can give - or, if you can't afford to give, it would be amazing if you could share our Crowdfunder on social media and help us reach as many people as possible. Thank you.
This project successfully funded on 2nd March 2018