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Home Of The Wriggler: Credits
(From the original production)
Home of the Wriggler was provoked by the passion unleashed in Birmingham when BMW announced it was looking to dispose of MG Rover. It was to have been a documentary about a working factory but events caught up with us; Longbridge closed within a month of our first research visit. It would have been easy to make this show nostalgic or a requiem for the plant, but it’s not our history to be that intimate with, so we have tried to steer clear of sepia images.
This show doesn’t attempt to tell the story of Rover. Instead it tells dozens of human stories, some very short, some entangled, others standing alone; all start after their beginning and finish before their end, missing out much in the middle. No one is expected to follow all the show’s strands, but we hope that in the collage of all these small stories elements of that big story will emerge.
Although most of the material in Home of the Wriggler arises from stories we have been told, these sources have been mixed, mashed and re-imagined so that any resemblance to any characters living or dead should be considered un/happy chance.
The show contains a small amount of ‘industrial language’ and due to vagaries of pedal power, lighting levels will fluctuate in a mild strobing effect.
Devised by
Heather Burton
Amanda Hadingue
Bernadette Russell
Craig Stephens
James Yarker
Performed by
Heather Burton
Amanda Hadingue
Bernadette Russell
Craig Stephens
Text
James Yarker
Devices, design and costume by
Mark Anderson and Helen Ingham from Blissbody
Thanks to
MCD for rehearsal space
Michael Martin, Walter Suett, Tony Williams and others we know for fragments of their stories
Constance Dimsdale for her patience
The Stan’s Cafe Board: Rob Elkington, Syd Ewart, Peter Fletcher,
Gerv Havil, Andy Parsons, Sadie Plant, Heather Taylor
Production Manager: Karen Stafford
Photography: Ed Dimsdale
Graphic Design: Simon Ford
General Manager: Charlotte Martin
Advisory Producer: Nick Sweeting
Education Department: Graeme Rose & Ana Rutter
This show is dedicated to Archie, Eve, Jacob, Robin and their future friends.
This Project was funded by Urban Fusion
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