May Contain You is a dementia-friendly performance and aims to intrigue, surprise and delight people for whom a trip to the theatre is ordinarily difficult.
The performance takes place within the dining hall or lounge, with furniture set around a central performing space. The dancers, dressed as waiters, welcome the residents and invite them into their ‘pop-up restaurant’ offering up trays of tinned food such as custard and rice pudding as well as an array of fruit and vegetables to stimulate conversation about food memories, likes and dislikes.
The show gradually emerges from this informal gathering and weaves anecdotes offered up by the audience with dance duets, songs and live music punctuated with cups of tea and jam tarts.
Using dance, singing and the familiar subject of food we offer older people and opportunity to connect with others.
Running time: approx. 60 minutes including tea and jam tarts
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Reviews
“Incredibly charming performance. The interaction offered to the audience via the medium of food is insightful” Audience member, Middle Park Community Centre, Eltham, London
“The quality of the performance was brilliant. The ability to build a rapport with the audience within minutes of starting the show was incredible. In the 5 ½ years I have been here I don’t think I have seen so many residents sitting in one room all laughing.” Nicky Durbin, Manager at Seckford Care
"Absolutely fabulous. I could watch this over and over and over again" Audience member, The Mayfair Community Centre, Church Stretton
Sonya Cullingford is a London-based actor, dancer and musician. She has just toured with prog-folk band The Moulettes, is a body double in ‘Abba Voyage’, puppeteered a donkey for a new musical by Emma Thompson, and is embarking on research for a solo show.
Sonya is a truly multidisciplinary performer, with a wide-reaching experience on stage and screen. Recent theatre includes, ‘Hex’ at National Theatre, ‘101 Dalmatians’ at Regent’s Park, ‘Elizabeth’ at The Barbican. She has appeared in feature films such as Barry Levinson’s ‘The Survivor’, Tom Hooper’s ‘The Danish Girl & ‘Les Miserables’, and is also an established physical-theatre performer, featuring as Wally in BBC2’s ‘Egon Schiele; Dangerous Desires’, ‘The Expected’ by Frantic Assembly’s Simon Pittman, and was original cast in Punchdrunk’s ‘The Drowned Man’.
Other credits include ‘Lavinia’ in Titus Andronicus, ‘Anna’ in Souvenir and ‘Baal’ by Impermanence. She is also one third of alt-folk band ‘The Greeners’.
For Protein, Sonya has created roles and performed in May Contain Food and En Route.
Simon was raised in rural Essex and trained in contemporary dance in Leeds. Having made his home in places as near as Bristol and as far away as Shanghai, he is now based in London where his passion for theatre work stretches across the realms of movement, acting and puppetry. For Protein, he has performed in The Little Prince and En Route To Common Ground, and has also appeared in several works for both Theatre Rites and Tilted Productions, as a dancer, actor and puppeteer.
Other work includes Sleep No More – Shanghai and The Drowned Man (Punchdrunk),The Little Match Girl and Ten Sorry Tales (Ballo Arthur Pita), Betrayal: A Polyphonic Crime Drama (I Fagiolini), Mucky Pup (Theatre Alibi), Benvenuto Cellini (Terry Gilliam/ENO). He has worked with Secret Cinema, Tom Roden, Lucy Suggate, Fleur Darkin, Sweetshop Revolution, Hannah Buckley, Shobana Jeyasingh, Kim Brandstrup, and Hofesh Schecter.
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