Underwater Love

By Flair May

Strange and beautiful, she is a creature not a person. They have made her a myth.

To what lengths will a young girl go to assert herself in a world constantly telling her to be good and be quiet?

Underwater Love explores how young people assert themselves within relationships in a world saturated with sexual imagery and content.

Underwater Love toured venues and schools 2016-2019. Each performance was followed by a Forum workshop in which the audience became involved as actors to change the outcome for the characters, exploring how they can make positive change.

CREDITS

Writer: Flair May
Director: Caroline Bryant
Designer: Jennifer Lee
Composer: Lillian Henley
Voice Coach: Izo Fitzroy
Movement Director: Sarita Piotrowski

CAST - 2019 TOUR

Joshua Boyd-Campbell

Yasmin Dawes

Marieme Diouf

Liberty Mellor

2018 TOUR

Christopher James-Gordon

Jesse Jones

Eleanor Nawal

Lotte Tickner

2017 TOUR

Toyin Ayedun-Alase

Gemma Carter

Anyebe Godwin

Simona Zivkovska

2016 TOUR

Charlyne Francis

Ani Nelson

Kadeem Pearse

Ella Road

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

“Can Futures come again? Enjoyed it. Really good” - Student, 2019

“Challenges you to think about what you’re doing and the society we live in. Relatable.” - Student, 2016

“Creative, entertaining, engaging” - Student, 2017

"It showed us we can make our own decisions and take our own consequences, we were allowed to participate, we got to say how we felt" - Student, 2018

“The pupils were so engaged and so many have already come to talk to me about how amazing it was and have conversations about some of the issues/themes raised” - Teacher, 2019

"A great show in which our students actively explored what trust, friendship, loyalty means" - Teacher, 2018

“A genuine performance for this generation of young people. A captivating show, thoughtfully exploring sensitive and relevant issues of the world today.” - Teacher, 2016

“The workshop enabled them to re-write the course of the story and identify how seemingly small changes could have been powerful - and that power was in their hands and the choices they made.” - Teacher, 2017