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Dinner with America Yardsale!
Memorabilia from the Dinner with America tour can be yours in return for a donation to support our work.
All memorabilia are also accompanied by a brand-new DVD of one of the final shows.
Glorious - a musical extravaganza
(2011)
Glorious! - image by Rajni Shahclick image to enlarge
From 2009 to 2012, Rajni Shah Theatre will realise Glorious - a new musical that will be completely reinvented for every performance, featuring members of the public in each location as musicians and performers.
The journey began in 2009 with a series of retreats and workshops (see below) leading into a year of rehearsals and in-progress works in 2010, and will end with a tour to ten venues in 2011 and 2012. Each of the final performances will include a residency and workshop so that those local to each venue can work and perform alongside Rajni and her collaborators.
If you are interested in being a part of this work, please join the mailing list at the bottom of the page and we will send you an update whenever we are looking for participants. If you are interested in becoming a presenting partner, please use the contact page to get in touch.
Creative team: Lucille Acevedo-Jones, Lucy Cash, Sheila Ghelani, Mary Paterson, Ben & Max Ringham, Rajni Shah and Steve Wald
"I want to explore the sense of not knowing that pervades Europe today – both the fear and the space for hope that has emerged as a result of our increased awareness of climate change, shifts in border policies, and the dramatic impact of the financial collapse. I cannot think of a more appropriate or interesting form for this than the musical – a form that immediately communicates with a vast number of people, including myself, but that is often used to represent some kind of utopia or dystopia. At a time when many people feel disempowered and frustrated, can we make a musical that positively embraces the unknown and the unknowable?" Rajni Shah
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| Not Knowing - a DIY6 workshop London, August 2009 As part of the development for Glorious, Rajni led a 3-day workshop exploring not knowing as a creative space. Click here to read the original call for proposals and final report. |
 Lancaster workshop - image by Alice Booth |
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(It's Going to be) Glorious! - a public intervention and open workshop A public intervention in an empty shop followed by an open workshop in which participants worked with Rajni Shah Theatre to create self portraits using a combination of voice, text and objects. Click here to see some images and find out more about both events. |
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