From the Ground Up

Tickets £11
£5 to those aged 25 and under (limited to 2 per person)

production information

Do you let people influence you? Would you fight for peace? Is who you are determined by where you live? Is race important? From the Ground Up is a thrilling and provocative interactive show that unites and divides the audience through a series of challenging questions, stories and dilemmas, both political and personal. When faced with a difficult choice that can define you, will you step right or will you step left? Created by a group of 16-to 25-year-olds, written by Joeri Smet (Ontroerend Goed) and directed by Christopher Elmer-Gorry.

Supported by Shoreditch Town Hall

Photographs by Peter Schiazza

Dates & Tickets

Mon 7 - Thurs 10 Aug
7.30pm

This production will also be at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from 14 - 27 Aug

We ask that anyone with any Access needs contact the venue before booking tickets on 020 7739 6176 or by emailing marketing@shoreditchtownhall.com

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Joeri Smet

Writer

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Joeri Smet is a writer, performer, dramaturge and one of the founding members of Ontroerend Goed. At 16, he joined what was then still a poetry collective and with his companions he turned the group into a full-blown theatre company. He performed in and co-created the Porror-trilogy (2001-2003) , Audience (2010), A History of Everything (2012), The Smile Off Your Face (2004), Internal (2007) and A Game of You (2011) and co-wrote World Without Us (2016) and £¥€$ (2017). Apart from his work with Ontroerend Goed, Joeri also gave workshops with young performers in Unicorn Theatre and Almeida Theatre in London.

Adrienne Quartly

Sound Designer

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Adrienne is a Sound Designer/Composer.

Work includes: Opening Skinner’s Box (Improbable/Lincoln Center, New York); Rose (Home, Manchester); The Crucible (Selladoor/Hornchurch); Cuttin’ It (Young Vic); I am Thomas (Told by an Idiot/NTS); Bad Jews (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Splendour (Donmar Warehouse); Tale of Two Cities (Royal & Derngate); Raisin in the Sun (Sheffield Crucible); Ghost Train; Too Clever; You Can’t Take It With You (Told by an Idiot/Royal Exchange); Sex & 3 day week (Liverpool Playhouse); Inside Wagner’s Head (Royal Opera House); Every Last Trick (Spymonkey); Fräulein Julie (Schaubuhne/Barbican); Importance of Being Earnest (Hong Kong Arts Festival); Rings of Saturn (Cologne); Stockholm (Frantic Assembly); Thomas Hobbes (RSC); Woyzeck (St Ann’s, NYC); Fastest Clock (Hampstead); Faustus; School for Scandal; Volpone; Duchess of Malfi (Stage on Screen).

Christopher Elmer-Gorry

Director

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Previously for Almeida as a Director: From The Ground Up; Press Go.

As a Writer: We know Best: A Small Humans Guide to Big Human Problems; An Average Trip to Mars.

Directing Credits elsewhere include: Scuff Night 17; Hansel and Gretel; Little Criminals (Warts and All Theatre, Delapre Abbey) Oliver!; Immune; DNA; KONTAKT; Sweeney Todd (Royal & Derngate) Short Changed; Gargantua (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Exams Are Getting Easier (Birmingham REP); The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe; Little Hope (The Point, Eastleigh).

As Assistant/Associate Director: One For The Road; His Dark Materials (Royal & Derngate); Peter Pan (Chichester Festival Theatre); Home (The Castle, Wellingborough).

Christopher trained at East 15 Acting School and on the National Theatre Directors course.

Christopher is a specialist in making work with and for Young People and regularly trains practitioners in achieving high quality process driven product. His practice was evaluated by Theatre Royal Plymouth as part of Arts Council England's 7 Quality Principles of excellence when making work with and for Children and young people.

He is Artistic and Executive Director of Warts and All Theatre, which is based at Delapre Abbey in Northampton.

From The Ground Up Gallery

Additional information

This production takes place at Shoreditch Town Hall, EC1V 9LT. Please note that From the Ground Up is an interactive performance in which audience members move about the space and features loud bangs and latex balloons.

The running time is approximately 1 hour with no interval. Latecomers will not be admitted.

Cast & Creatives

Cast
Cudjoe Asare
Franziska Haberlach
Helena Joao Morais
John Livesy
Lauren Mcgarvey
Rhianna Moritz
Samson Cox-Vinell
Seren Oroszvary
Simeon Blake-Hall
Timothy Dennett

Writer Joeri Smet
Director Christopher Elmer-Gorry
Sound Designer Adrienne Quartly
Lighting Designer James Delamere
Producer Ross Crosby
Company Stage Manager Osnat Koblenz