#Review: Supplicants of Syria, Hoxton Hall ★★★
"Supplicants of Syria is not theatre you ‘enjoy’ in the conventional sense; it is theatre you carry with you."
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THE MOUTH OF THE GODS was a music-theatre performance celebrating the history and living cultural power of Latin America’s Indigenous peoples.
The documentary film offers a behind-the-scenes look at the project and is available on Youtube.
#BorderCrossings30 29 THE MOUTH OF THE GODS (2024)
BOTANY BAY was our 2021 Participation and Learning project. It explored plant journeys, Indigenous knowledge, and sustainable living to inspire young people to rethink our relationship with the natural world.
#BorderCrossings30 number 28 BOTANY BAY (2021).
A cedar tree from Chumatlán became TOTEM LATAMAT, a 4.5m messenger carved by Totonac artist Jun Tiburcio. It travelled 9000km to COP26 and now rests at The Crichton in #Dumfries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gebk...
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"Imagine 700 people crammed on a small sailing ship, on a six week journey. It's not about status anymore... it's about survival"
Created with actors from Mauritius and the UK, THE GREAT EXPERIMENT(2020) unearthed the hidden history of 2 million Indian indentured labourers.
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POCAHONTAS AND AFTER (2017) reimagined Native American representation through photography, with self-portraits by volunteers, schools & refugees. In 2018 it was honoured with a British Library Teaching & Learning Award
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MORE THAN WORDS (2017-20) was an Erasmus+ collaboration across 6 countries, leading to a poetic, provocative film exploring what it means to be an outsider in Europe. Blending theatre, clowning, music and dance it pushed the boundaries of storytelling.
#BorderCrossings30 number 21 MORE THAN WORDS
In 2017 ORIGINS Festival closed with an unforgettable performance from Inuk throat-singer Tanya Tagaq who reimagined Robert Flaherty’s problematic 1922 film Nanook of the North with a live improvised soundtrack, a breathtaking act of cultural reappropriation. #BorderCrossings30
Looking back at 30 years of Border Crossings we come to HIDDEN HISTORIES: DISCOVERING INDIGENOUS LONDON. Our 2017 documentary narrated by Oscar-winner Mark Rylance uncovers stories of Indigenous people in London from the 15th century to today.
#BorderCrossings30 number 19: HIDDEN HISTORIES
In 2015 London witnessed the breathtaking VOLADORES DE PAPANTLA: world-renowned Indigenous performers from Mexico who "fly" from a 30-metre pole. They made their first UK appearance as part of ORIGINS Festival’s Latin American programming. #BorderCrossings30 number 18: ORIGINS 2015.
🎭 “Seven sons we have lost in this war”
Brian Woolland’s taut and poetic play brought together Homer’s Troy and the Middle East of today. Co-produced with Palestine's ASHTAR Theatre and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
#BorderCrossings30 number 17 THIS FLESH IS MINE (2014).
In 2013 the inspirational Indigenous Australian dance company, Marrugeku, brought GUDIRR GUDIRR to London for the first time, a powerful solo performance that shook the stage at ORIGINS Festival.
#BorderCrossings30 number 16: MARRUGEKU at ORIGINS
As part of our 30th anniversary, we’re revisiting CONSUMED, a striking bilingual co-production with China’s leading contemporary theatre, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre in 2013.
Here’s a clip from the archive.
#BorderCrossings30 number 15: CONSUMED (2013)
DIS-ORIENTATIONS (2006) was a collaboration with the all-female Yue Opera of Shanghai. A multicultural fusion of East and West, the production combined live performance, film, and music in a richly layered exploration of sexuality and identity.
#BorderCrossings30 number 11: DIS-ORIENTATIONS (2006)
In 2006, renowned American director Peter Sellars became Patron of Border Crossings.
During the Covid lockdown in 2020, we were honoured to host him for The Lockdown Dialogues and a powerful conversation on theatre’s role in a changing world.
#BorderCrossings30 number 10: Peter Sellars Patron
Founded in 2005, Border Crossings’ Intercultural Theatre Laboratory has been a vital space for training, experimentation and exchange.
Bringing together artists from across the world the Laboratory has been both a training ground and a research space.
#BorderCrossings30 number 9: Laboratory.
BULLIE’S HOUSE, written by Booker Prize-winning author Thomas Keneally represented the first step on Border Crossings' ongoing journey to share Indigenous stories and foster intercultural understanding.
#BorderCrossings30 number 8: BULLIE'S HOUSE (2004).
Brian Woolland’s DOUBLE TONGUE was a gripping exploration of identity, sexuality, and language, set in post-Cold War Hungary.
Like so much of our work, it asked: how do we define ourselves when the ground beneath us is constantly shifting?
#BorderCrossings30 6: DOUBLE TONGUE (2001)
#BorderCrossings30 Number 4: TOUFANN (1999). The late Dev Virahsawmy was a wonderful writer, whose adaptations of Shakespeare gave him space to affirm the power of the emerging Mauritian language. TOUFANN was (very) loosely based on THE TEMPEST, & the complexities of Mauritian politics & identities.
#BorderCrossings30 Number 3: TWELFTH NIGHT (1997-98)
Border Crossings' only Shakespeare, commissioned by the British Council in Mauritius, toured the Indian Ocean & Zimbabwe, as well as UK venues. We experimented with the cross-gender casting used in Asian forms, exploring gender & sexuality.
#bordercrossings30 Number 2: BRAVELY FOUGHT THE QUEEN (1996) was the first UK staging of a play by the wonderful Indian writer Mahesh Dattani. It played Leicester Haymarket, BAC and Watermans. This is Suchitra Malik as Lalitha in our production.
Gary Lilburn as Frank
Amanda Hurwitz as Grace
Martin Head as Teddy
30 years ago, on 30th Jan 1995, Border Crossings was registered as a company in the UK. We're marking this milestone with commemorative events throughout 2025, including 30 social media posts, featuring significant moments on our journey so far. Today - 1995's FAITH HEALER.
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