The voice of young disabled people often goes unheard. But not anymore – this raucous, radical, celebratory, and hard-hitting hip hop gig theatre show shared the good times and the not so good of times being young and disabled in 2023.
Funny, raw and surprising stories told by an amazing collective of actors, beatboxers, and dancers. With creative captioning, integrated sign language and integrated audio description.
Expect heavy beats, stunning visuals and full hearts.
Age guidance 14+
Now available for free online.
Co-produced by 20 Stories High, Graeae Theatre Company, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse and LEEDS 2023.
Co-produced by 20 Stories High, Graeae Theatre, Liverpool Everyman + Playhouse and LEEDS 2023.
Writer & Director – Keith Saha Associate Artist – Jennifer Sealey Assistant Director and Assistant Choreographer – Sonny Nwachukwu Dramaturg – Nickie Miles-Wildin, Lin Coghlan Designer – Miriam Nabarro Costume Supervisor – Shellby Hamer Video Designer – Ben Glover Sound Designer – Tony Gayle Lighting Designer – Rajiv Pattani Choreographer – Chris Fonseca Composer & Musician – Grace Savage BSL Consultant – Daryl Jackson Audio Description Consultant – Mandy Redvers-Rowe Artist Wellbeing Practitioner – Lou Platt Lead Producer – Leanne Jones Assistant Producer – Lucy Graham Producer – Lizzy Luxford Producer – Michelle Cailleux Producer – Tom Curteis Company Stage Manager – Gemma Scott Technical Stage Manager – Jordan Barnes Production Manager – Mike Dunn Participation – Lucy Graham, Jodi-Alissa Bickerton, Mette Philipsen & Roxy Daykin-Moores Integrated Performance Interpreter –Chandu Gopalakrishnan Interpreter – Jude Mahon, Pierce Starre Access Worker – Donna Coleman Access Manager – Vicky Berry Community Engagement Associate – Helena Ascough, Sarah Hailstone, Jimmy Justice, Abby Melia, Joe Taylor, Bradley Thompson Artwork – Joe Harper
"Ingenious, multi-strand story about what modern life is like for disabled young people"
High Times and Dirty Monsters review
“Thought-provoking”
REVIEWSOCT 12, 2023BY CATHERINE JONESLIVERPOOL EVERYMAN & PLAYHOUSE
Jayden Reid in High Times and Dirty Monsters at Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse. Photo: Jack Ehlan
Ingenious, multi-strand story about what modern life is like for disabled young people
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"Graeae has been putting D/deaf and disabled artists centre stage for more than 40 years, while Liverpool’s 20 Stories High has built a reputation for developing inventive work with culturally diverse young people. Both share the belief that everyone has a story to tell. And that’s at the core of this new and richly creative collaboration, which sympathetically fuses 20 Stories High’s trademark beatboxing storytelling with Graeae’s performance style in a piece that delivers its thought-provoking themes with texture and energy.
Stories are skilfully delivered with Graeae’s ‘aesthetics of access’ at the forefront – seamlessly embedded signing, creative captioning and integrated live audio description.
Actor and beatboxer Grace Savage provides the music, creating a shifting soundscape with nothing more than her mouth and a mic. Miriam Nabarro’s set, an open space backed by a wall of light boxes that take on Mondrian-style colours, allows for nimble shifts of scene. "