2022/23 Production
Une Petite Hiroba
"Une Petite" = A small
"Hiroba (広場)" = Town square
"Une Petite Hiroba" = A small town square
If the world were a village of 100 people, how many would be X and how many would be Y? How many would be laughing, and how many would have dreams?
Wouldn’t you want to see a world as a village of 100 people, where everybody is equal, has opportunities and is living a life?
All very different, but all very fun lives.
"Une Petite Hiroba"
Inspired by If the world were a village of 100 people (Kayoko Ikeda & Magazine House, 2006), our theatre show is a devised multilingual sitcom exploring cultural differences within food, festivities, music, folklore and more, in a multilingual space where communication takes place in all sorts of methods (languages).
From workshop to devising
Following a successful term of one-off conclusive workshops all with different themes, we are taking the ideas and discussions generated from the workshops to devise a full performance for the SU Festival in May 2023.
Scroll through our Instagram page to see the workshop highlights and pre/post/alternative workshop activities that can also be done elsewhere!
Debut Performance
New Studio, 19 May @ 7PM
Une Petite Hiroba is a multilingual theatre show, capturing the joy, anger, sadness and love of life in more than 10 languages and cultures. Set in a little village with a little village square, every villager looks, sounds, and acts differently. But recently villagers are uniting, gathering in the square to put decorations, music and colours in the Petite Hiroba for a very special event: The upcoming birth of a new life.
It’s a celebration of cultural diversity through the joy of theatre making in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Ukrainian, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Norwegian, Italian and Maltese.
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Wandsworth Arts Fringe
Une Petite Hiroba is going to Wandsworth Arts Fringe!
Check us out performing in Battersea Barge on
Sunday, 18th June 2023 @ 2PM!
Devised by the Multicultural Applied Theatre Society from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Une Petite Hiroba embarks on the Wandsworth Arts Festival with an immersive experience that invites you to literally ride the waves* of emotions.
*Performing in the lower deck of the Battersea Barge, you could expect some turbulence during high tides. Please be aware if you get sea sickness, as the performance venue is a boat.
*Duration: 75 mins
*Age restriction of venue: 18+
*The venue is not wheelchair accessible. The only way to the lower deck is by a narrow staircase.
*Relaxed performance: stand up and move around when you need to.
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Project Artistic Directors:
Mana Katsuno, Anouk Salters
Devised and Written by Multicultural Applied Theatre Society
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