Stage a violent revolution. Take them down from the inside. Blow the whistle. Or leave it all behind and entirely start over.
Dismantle This Room is an escape-the-room experience giving you the opportunity to interrogate – and consequently dismantle – the inherited (and often invisible) power structures in theatre. Which raises the question – what should we build in their place?
No matter how much or how little you know about the theatre industry, it will be a provocative and uniting experience. Created by Nina Segal (In The Night Time (Before The Sun Rises), Big Guns), Milli Bhatia (Hijabi Monologues London) and Ingrid Marvin.
Dismantle This Room forms one part of Project 2036’s year-long investigation into power in theatre – and the ways in which it intersects with gender, race, class, economics and education. As an experiment around ideas of power and privilege, there are three ticket prices – £1, £3 and £5. We ask all participants to select the ticket price that they feel corresponds to their personal level of privilege – whether that be white privilege, male privilege, economic privilege, able-bodied privilege, cis privilege, class privilege or any other marker of privilege you wish to consider. A higher ticket price corresponds to a higher level of societal privilege – and vice versa. If you’re privileged – please pay for it.
The performance lasts approximately one hour and involves moving between spaces. If you have access requirements that you’d like to discuss, please contact ingridmarvin@bushtheatre.co.uk and we will aim to do everything possible to accommodate.
Cindy Lin is a set and costume designer originally from Southern California, but is is now based in London.
Cindy trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (MA Theatre Design). Theatre credits include: Breathe (Bunker Theatre), Nell Gwynn and 1984 (London College of Music), Lord of the Underworld’s Home for Unwed Mothers (Skylight Theatre Company), Might Never Happen (Doll’s Eye Theatre) and Electra (RWCMD Richard Burton Company). She has assisted and worked with a wide range of designers, including Boris Kudlicka (Otello), Jon Bausor (Bat Out of Hell – US Tour), Naomi Dawson (Kneehigh’s The Tin Drum), Tom Scutt (Elegy, The Deep Blue Sea, Jesus Christ Superstar – Olivier Award winner for Best Musical Revival 2017) and Vicki Mortimer (The Plough and the Stars).
In addition, Cindy was a Linbury Prize finalist with the Royal Court Theatre (2015), short-listed for the British Council Ukraine Prize with Les Kurbas Theatre (2015) and a Royal Opera House bursary recipient (2017).
www.cindylindesigns.com
Duramaney Kamara was the composer, sound designer and resident DJ for Dismantle, a festival of work by Project 2036 at the Bush Theatre.
As music and sound designer, his credits for the Royal Court include: My Mum’s a Twat and Instructions For Correct Assembly. As composer & sound designer, for the Royal Court: Katzenmusik (Young Court); Tottenham Symphony(Beyond the Court).
As a performer, his theatre credits include: Boy (Almeida); The Response (Seagull/Mercury). As a performer, film credits include: Yardie, What Happened to Evie.
Ingrid Marvin is currently the Assistant Producer at the Bush alongside her role as the producer of Project 2036. Previously, she worked as administrator for Tamasha Theatre Company. She began her career in museums and archives, moving into theatre when she got an internship in the Learning Department at the National Theatre via Creative Access. Following this internship, she spent a year working with the NT’s Talks and Exhibitions team. She has a particular interest in diversity in theatre, and co-produced the theatre networking group BAME Young Things.
Milli is an Associate Artist at he Bush Theatre, and Trainee Director at The Royal Court Theatre. Director credits for The Bush Theatre include: Hijabi Monologues London, and My White Best Friend / This Bitter Earth (both Black Lives Black Words).
Other Director credits include: Shine (Young Court, Royal Court Theatre), I Have Aids (directed as part of the Jerwood Director’s Programme, Young Vic), Rats (ADF Talks Brexit, Duffield Studio, National Theatre), EmpowerHouse (Theatre Royal Stratford East); No Cowboys Only Indians (Courtyard Theatre), Three Wheels On The Wagon (Birmingham Rep), The Snow Queen (Garage Theatre), The Vagina Monologues (Minotaur Theatre Company).
Associate Director credits include: What If Women Ruled The World? (Manchester International Festival). Assistant Director credits include: Girls and Boys, Instructions For Correct Assembly, One For Sorrow and Poet In Da Corner (Royal Court Theatre), Lions And Tigers (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), Cell Mates, Filthy Business and Luna Gale (Hampstead Theatre), Assata Taught Me (Gate Theatre), What Shadows (Birmingham Rep), The Quiet House (Birmingham Rep/The Park Theatre), The Government Inspector (Birmingham Rep/touring), How To Be A Hero (Birmingham Rep/Deptford Albany) and Luminous (Birmingham Rep).
Nina Segal‘s productions include: Big Guns (Yard Theatre, 2017; upcoming German-language translation); In The Night Time (Before The Sun Rises) (Gate Theatre, 2016; upcoming Italian-language production, Teatro Belli, 2017; upcoming reading in Atlantic Theater Company’s Amplified Series, NY, 2018); and Danger Signals (New Ohio, NY, 2017/18). Nina has been a finalist for the Yale Drama Series Prize 2016 and the Adrian Pagan Award 2015. Nina is currently attached to the HighTide First Commissions scheme and the Project 2036 writer at the Bush Theatre.
Rajiv is one of the Technicians at the Bush, working with Michael and the creative teams to realise productions and events in both the Theatre and the Studio. He is also a lighting designer. Rajiv graduated from LAMDA in 2014 with qualifications in Stage Management and Technical Theatre, specialising in Lighting, Sound and AV. Recent design work for the Bush includes the reopening event Black Lives, Black Words, Edinburgh Fringe First winner 2017 NASSIM (Traverse 2 / Bush Theatre / International Tour), Ramona Tells Jim directed by Mel Hillyard and Hijabi Monologues London.
Other lighting design credits include: Network Theatre’s STUD (Vault Festival 2018); Screaming Secrets & Glass Roots (Tristan Bates Theatre); Tom Stoppard’s On the Razzle and Nina Raine’s Rabbit (Pleasance Theatre for LAMDA productions); Blood Wedding (Bread & Roses Theatre); Might Never Happen (Doll’s Eye Theatre Company); Primadonna (VAULT Festival 2016); as well as various projects at the Arcola, Hampstead and the Unicorn. Rajiv was also Production Electrician on 4 Minutes 12 Seconds at Trafalgar Studios.
