Dundee Rep Theatre Creative Learning presents The Beautiful People, Thursday 15 October at 2.30pm and 7.30pm at Dundee Rep’s Bonar Hall.
The Beautiful People is created and performed as part of theLuminate Festival funded by The Rank Foundation. The Beautiful People launches three years of secured funding to work with older people at the risk of isolation. The Beautiful People is Dundee Rep Creative Learning’s latest production directed by Suzi Morrice, Suzi brings a cast of sixteen together, creating this new piece of theatre.
Dundee Rep Creative Learning has been working with a group of local participants aged between 53 and 83 on this devised production. The Beautiful People is a production that takes inspiration from Studio 54, a New York club when at its peek in the 1970s only beautiful People got past the velvet ropes. The company have explored what beauty means to them by defining beauty through power, strength, resilience, hope and above all, love.
The Beautiful People will transform Dundee Rep’s Bonar Hall which comes to life with a pumping disco soundtrack. This high-energy show will share the authentic experience of the performers with the audience, through story and movement and best of all the audience will be invited to join the company on the dance floor. The show features two Deaf actors and is fully BSL integrated.
Tickets are on sale at Dundee Rep box office 01382 223530 or on line www.dundeerep.co.uk
Dundee Rep Creative Learning aim to target the most isolated older people in our local community with the three years secured Rank Funding. Taking the project forward, the participants of TheBeautiful People will take the lead and facilitate the next stage of the creative project. They will work closely with the local community, encouraging participation and creativity with the most vulnerable.
Luminate, Scotland’s creative ageing festival, once again takes place throughout October across Scotland. Now in its fourth year, the festival features hundreds of creative events from the Scottish Borders to Shetland, reaching people of all ages and different communities nationwide. Luminate celebrates creativity, shares stories of ageing and explores what it means to all of us that our society is ageing.
The Rank Foundation is a grant-giving charitable trust, restricted to causes in the UK, approved by the Charity Commission and other regulators. We exclusively concentrate on encouraging and developing leadership amongst young people, through our well-established youth training and education programmes. Supporting disadvantage people and those isolated in the community through ill health, advancing are or disability. Promoting the understanding of the values, traditions and practices of the Christian faith, from a perspective that respects those of all faiths and those of none.
Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre Limited
Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre Limited is rooted in making work for and with a diverse local audience while strengthening its national and international reputation. The theatre is a national cultural asset which the people of Dundee feel ownership over and in which they can take enormous pride.
