Polyphonic II - A Home The Size of Our Planet, is the second community theatre production commissioned by the MEITS Research Project with the aim to bring stories of everyday multilingual lives to a wider audience. This play is the result of a 6-month project working with individuals drawn from a dozen linguistic backgrounds to explore how speaking more than one language and living in a foreign country affects their lives.

Our first play, Polyphonic, was performed in October 2018 as part of the Festival of Ideas (Cambridge). Please visit these links to see a trailer and the full length performance

Book your free tickets before it's too late, spaces are limited!

Tickets are limited due to seating capacity at the venue.  If you book a ticket then realise that you can't make it, it would really help us out if you could release your booked tickets so that others can come.

About the project partners

The Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals Transforming Societies (MEITS) research project is a major interdisciplinary research project funded under the AHRC Open World Research Initiative. Through six interlocking research strands we investigate how the insights gained from stepping outside a single

language, culture and mode of thought are vital to individuals and societies. For more information visit www.meits.org

Acting Now and Polygon Arts are both Cambridge-based theatre companies who work with a wide variety of community groups and organisations. We put social, political and civic causes at the forefront of our work and devise creative drama projects that breathe life into the important social challenges facing participants and audiences alike. Please visit www.actingnow.co.uk and www.polygonarts.org.uk for more information.

We Still Standing is an original play devised by students from local charity Rowan and directed by Acting Now director Marina Pallarés-Elias. After six months of busy weekly sessions, this drama group has created a beautiful performance regarding the subjects of challenging situations, love, relationships, fear and hope.

Rowan's music students will be introducing the performances and on arrival refreshments and drinks will be available.

To show your support, pin the date down, join us, and you contribute to the continuity of the drama group!

ROWAN is a local charity and arts centre that helps improving the lives of people with learning disabilities through the provision of services and meaningful activities that improve health and wellbeing, as well as break down issues of social exclusion. They run a number of art studios one of them being dedicated for their drama group which is where all the magic happens.

ACTING NOW INCLUSIVE THEATRE PROJECTS:

At Acting Now we believe theatre is a catalyst for social change and should be for anyone and everyone, not limited by physical ability, condition, language or background. Our projects use the language of theatre with disadvantaged groups of varying abilities to enable them to find their voices in a safe and encouraging environment. Throughout the workshops, we also build social and emotional skills, self-expression and self-esteem and address the stigma attached to certain conditions. The projects culminate in original theatre performances based on the stories that emerge from the group.

SOME TESTIMONIALS FROM LAST PERFOMANCE "THROUGH THE CLOUD I CAN SEE YOU"

Funny, moving, evocative, thought provocation.

Quite moving and has to be heard.

Amazing and inspiring!.

Impressed, moved, enjoyable, captivated.

I came without knowing what to expect. I was impressed by the organisation skills of the helpers and acting abilities of the cast.

Book your free tickets before it's too late, spaces are limited!

Tickets are limited due to seating capacity at the venue - if you book a ticket and then realise that you can't make it, it would really help us out if you could release your booked tickets so that others can come.