Review: How Did I Get To This Point? at Newcastle Live Theatre

Where Do They Get

Their Sleeping Bags From?

How Did I Get To This Point?

Newcastle Live Theatre

19th, 24th & 25th September 2014

Live Theatre currently has two productions to prick ones conscience: Wet House on the main stage and Alphabetti Theatre’s How did I get to this point? in the intimate studio theatre.  The Rowntree Foundation have stated that most us of are just two pay checks from homelessness and yet we may be guilty of not giving the matter a second thought.

As the audience enter they are asked to answer a question about homelessness such as Where do they get their sleeping bags from?The studio is set up in the round and sat in centre stage Amy Foley and Ali Pritchard were ready to spring into action.  The production features audience and public reaction to issues of homelessness coupled with the tales from interviews with those affected. The addition of comments made in incident books adds the closest thing to light relief. 

The actors do a great job of drawing the audience in to question their own belief structure. By the time Pip Chamberlin crashes into view with his hammer one has to consider the fine line between keeping that roof over ones head and losing it.

This is a production that creates more questions than answers.  An unsentimental journey which probes our values as a society – should we do more? Under Ben Dickenson’s direction Alphabetti have delivered a timely reminder of the need for society.

Brilliant, moving, thought provoking, unsettling & sympathetic – this should be compulsory viewing for the Daily Mail reader.

This review was written by Stephen Oliver for Jowheretogo PR (www.jowheretogo.com). Follow Jo on twitter @jowheretogo, Stephen @panic_c_button or like Jowheretogo on Facebook www.facebook.com/Jowheretogo

Researched & Written by   Ali Pritchard, Allison Davies and Pip Chamberlin

Directed by                          Ben Dickenson      

Performed by                       Amy Foley, Ali Pritchard & Pip Chamberlin

On The Web:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Alphabetti

Facebook: www.facebook.com/AlphabettiSpaghettiTheatre

Website: www.live.org.uk/whats-on-book/how-did-i-get-to-this-point

Tickets:

When:  19th , 24th & 25th September 2014, 20:00

Where: Live Theatre, Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne,

NE1 3DQ

Ticket Price:  £5

Running Length:  40 minutes

Preview: How Did I Get To This Point? at Newcastle Live Theatre

How far are any of us

from losing our home?

How Did I Get To This Point?

Newcastle Live Theatre

19^th, 24^th & 25^th September 2014

Join the innovative Alphabetti Theatre, described as 'Original, off the wall and clever' by a producer from BBC Radio 4 for forty minutes of challenging, emotional and funny drama in response to Live Theatre’s Wet House.

According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation we're all just two pay cheques away from losing our roof.

Do you know someone who struggles with money? Someone who went through a tough break up? Maybe they drink too much, use risky substances, have lost someone close, lied on form, fallen ill. But they could never lose their home…right?

How Did I Get To This Point? is a new play made up of interviews with members of the public, workshops with homeless people, log books from supported accommodation, internet discussions, forms, facts, government statistics and a everything else that makes up life. When affordable housing is scarcer than ever, How Did I Get To This Point? asks just how close we all are to a life without a home. This is a production that shows just how close you and I are from becoming homelessness, through real and chaotic experiences. 

Researched & Written by   Ali Pritchard, Allison Davies and Pip Chamberlin

Directed by                          Ben Dickenson       

Performed by                       Amy Foley, Ali Pritchard & Pip Chamberlin

On The Web:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Alphabetti

Facebook: www.facebook.com/AlphabettiSpaghettiTheatre

Website: http://www.live.org.uk/whats-on-book/how-did-i-get-to-this-point

Tickets:

When:                         19^th, 24^th & 25^th September 2014, 20:00

On Friday 19^thSeptember  - There will be two performances one at 6pm & one at 8pm

Where:                        Live Theatre, Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne,  NE1 3DQ

Ticket Price:               £5

Running Length:        40 minutes