Blackbirds

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T921304432 (OUTERGEN11) Producer London Bubble. Lighting Alex Stone. Costume Holly White. Director Jonathan Petherbirdge (project). Director Julia Voce (assistant). Sound Opaean. Design Pip Nash. Performer Jasmine Atkinson. Performer Lucy Bradshaw. Performer Sapphire Collins. Performer Louie Douglas. Performer Iris Dove. Performer Tabitha Earthrowl-Law. Performer Melisa Erdem. Performer Ella Fogg. Performer Amanda Getrrup. Performer Rosy-Lea Hawney. Performer Chris Hawney. Performer Kezia Herzog. Performer Robert Herzog. Performer Ryan Hewitt. Performer Chris Hiller. Performer Marina Hussain-Leones. Performer Asya Karababa. Performer Hacer Karababa. Performer Ian MacNaughton. Performer Alex Madewell. Performer Rose Mahoney-Moore. Performer Victoria O’Neill. Performer Johanna Petterson. Performer Lee Phillips. Performer Wendy Ponting. Performer Lauren Rowley. Performer Muhammad Salim. Performer Alex Saoutkin. Performer Hasnah Sherifdeen. Performer Tanya Simmons. Performer Faye Smith. Performer Amelia Spooner. Performer Annie Startin. Performer Jacob Startin. Performer Andrew Stern. Performer Maureen Tyson. Performer Silvia Patricia Villa. Performer Brenda Watkinson. Performer David West. Performer Jodie Witcher.
6 Jan 12 to 7 Jan 12	General, Outer London :: V1087 listing details L0342947851
11 Nov 11 to 12 Nov 11	General, Outer London :: V1087 listing details L2056895023
14 Oct 11	The Albany, Outer London :: V294 listing details L239440099
9 May 11 to 14 May 11	General, Outer London :: V1087 listing details L0659661326

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Play :: In the first month of the Blitz alone 5,730 people were killed, 9,003 seriously injured. In Stepney 2160 homes were destroyed, with 13480 damaged but repairable. In Lewisham about 1700 homes were destroyed with 23370 houses seriously damaged. By the end of the Blitz in May 1940, 9 months later, 43,000 people had been killed, half of them in London. Some of the children who survived this are still alive today. They are living in modest homes or residential care. When we look at their faces we see their age and frailty, but when do we ask their story? Blackbirds is the story of Londoners who lived through the hardest of times and are here to tell us the tale; in their own words, collected by local children and performed by local people. In an age when we are connected by global networks, but don't know our neighbours, "Blackbirds" tells of a time when Britain was at it bravest, and bombs fell daily in your street.

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