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"Mayhem creates fantastic opportunities for young people, their dedication and enthusiasm is infectious and they consistently produce diverse and unique drama"
Shaheen Baig Casting Director
We are currently developing Elephant 21 to be performed in the Summer of 2010 in Elephant and Castle, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund go to Elephant 21 on the home page.
Present Tense: MAYHEM - Royal Festival Hall. Following our initial outing with Nabokov Present Tense in 2008 at Southwark Playhouse we thought about creating the same event for young and emerging artists. We approached Nabokov who readily agreed and on the 28 Feb we produced an extra-ordinary evening of performance, spoken word and music with: Tomorrow’s Warriors in residence at Southbank , Southwark Playhouse’s Young Company, Mayhem N15, performance poet Mia Korrel, Open Hands Productions, Mayhem SE1 and singer song writer Ayeisha Clark and Henry O’Slatton. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with Nabokov later in the Year. www.nabokov-online.com
Real Life Sex Makes Baby – Royal Festival Hall. This was our first performance in Royal Festival Hall since partnering with SE1 United in 2009. The work was developed at the Jerwood Space and Spirit Level and explored every thing the title suggested.
Thames Festival 2009 – MAYHEM worked in partnership with SE1 United and Emergency Exit Arts to produce our first piece of Street Theatre utilising dance, drama and music to create an explosive piece of street theatre.
The Office for Criminal Justice Reform – Inside Justice Week 09. Mayhem worked with Media Trust and SE1 United to devise and work along side a film director to produce three short films about young people and Custody. The films were shot over 6 days and involved many of our young company in front of the camera and were broadcast on the Community Channel in October for Inside Justice Week 09
Previous productions include:The Butterfly Club an exploration of the recent deaths of young people in Bridgend, Wales (Southwark Playhouse), See You Tomorrow our response to one of our former members decision to join the British Army and serve in Iraq (Southwark Playhouse) and Deluxe the story of a fatal shooting in a Southwark School (Southwark Playhouse).Previous work includes: 100° Fahrenheit the study of corruption in the Black religious community (Southwark Playhouse) and Hamelyn Heights an urban fairy tale (Young Vic Studio).
THE CHALLENGE 2009: TMC will be providing a week-long drama workshop for the young people of The Challenge project - a London wide summer scheme working with young people between the ages of 16 and 18 on leadership, skills development and enterprise.
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