SPORTS! 2024
Show // Sports!
Creative Leads // Written & Directed by Nataliya Kharina
Co-Musical Directors - Liudmila Malinovskaia & Benedict Noel John
Assistant Director - Poppy Brian-Boys, Florence Granger
Stage Manager - Becci Perris
Company Manager - Florentina Bowden
Volunteer Extraordinaire - Clare Harbin
Music Facilitator - Tom Sergeant
Theme // Learning how to fail!
Partners // Wandsworth Arts Fringe Festival
Funding // Arts Council, Heritage Lottery
Performance Venue // Seeds Hub, Wembley Park &The Arches, St Mary’s Church in Putney
SPORTS!
In January we gathered for the first time and began exploring this year’s theme - identity. We thought about what identity means to us and how our understanding of identity might be different to the generations that came before us. These explorations morphed into games which created characters about whom we started to write stories. Slowly but surely a show came to life. We landed on the concept of failure and the extent to which it defines our identity. A show was born.
“The show made me feel nostalgic and proud - as it reminded me of school days when I used to compete in Sports day and I also felt proud at the performance of my little brother.”
(Sports Audience Feedback, 2024)