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Super Normal Extra Natural: A takeover of Croydon’s Whitgift Shopping Centre

  • Location Whitgift Square, Whitgift Shopping Centre
  • Date Jan 12 2024
  • Time 4:00 pm till 5:00 pm
  • Tickets£1 - 8
  • Agesall ages

By Requardt & Rosenberg

An audience assembles in Whitgift Shopping Centre, in the heart of Croydon. A woman with a yellow backpack takes the escalator, the assistant manager drops her keys, and the deputy head of accounts finds them. A couple argue about who did what to whom, and someone, somewhere starts to move.

A seemingly normal day starts to merge with a world of angels and demons, hope and pain.

Experience Whitgift Shopping Centre from a whole new perspective. Using headphones to connect to the soundtrack, audiences become a part of a surreal world that blurs the boundaries between reality and performance.

Super Normal Extra Natural is a new, community-based performance made with the people of Croydon, from the creators of experiential performances Future Cargo and DeadClub™. Dancers and singers are joined by Croydon locals to take over Whitgift Shopping Centre in this unique, intimate and constantly surprising dance spectacle.

Croydon residents can book £1 tickets (normally  £8 full price or £5 concession). You’ll be asked to share your post-code during the booking process to verify your Croydon address

Credits
Super Normal Extra Natural is co-Produced by The Place.
Commissioned by London Borough of Culture, The Place and Stanley Arts. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Super Normal Extra Natural is supported by Whitgift Centre.

 

Direction and Choreography: David Rosenberg and Frauke Requardt
Composer: Dave Price
Sound Designer: Mike Winship
Costume Design Supervisor: Kate Bunce
Rehearsal Director: Valentina Formenti
Dancers: Ruben Brown, Alexander Henderson, Temitope Ajose-Cutting and Anwar Russell
Production and Stage Manager: Rachel Bowen
Audio Describer: Willie Elliott
Company Producer: Nina von der Werth
Company Manager: Katherine Hurley
Assistant Stage Manager: Ella Kennedy

 

Performance times:

Friday 12 January: 4 & 6pm

Saturday 13 January: 2, 4 & 6pm

Sunday 14 January: 2 & 4pm

 

Access Information

Headphones: To experience Super Normal Extra Natural in full, audience members will be invited to listen in using headphones provided.

Seating: There is no seating, unless provided by the venue for access purposes. Audience members will be standing throughout. If you have any access requirements, please contact the box office.

Audio Description: available as a separate audio track for all performances.

Visual Story, and touch tours: available upon request.


      

 

 

Super Normal Extra Natural: A takeover of Croydon’s Whitgift Shopping Centre

  • Location Whitgift Square, Whitgift Shopping Centre
  • Date Jan 12 2024
  • Time 4:00 pm till 5:00 pm
  • Tickets£1 - 8
  • Agesall ages

By Requardt & Rosenberg

An audience assembles in Whitgift Shopping Centre, in the heart of Croydon. A woman with a yellow backpack takes the escalator, the assistant manager drops her keys, and the deputy head of accounts finds them. A couple argue about who did what to whom, and someone, somewhere starts to move.

A seemingly normal day starts to merge with a world of angels and demons, hope and pain.

Experience Whitgift Shopping Centre from a whole new perspective. Using headphones to connect to the soundtrack, audiences become a part of a surreal world that blurs the boundaries between reality and performance.

Super Normal Extra Natural is a new, community-based performance made with the people of Croydon, from the creators of experiential performances Future Cargo and DeadClub™. Dancers and singers are joined by Croydon locals to take over Whitgift Shopping Centre in this unique, intimate and constantly surprising dance spectacle.

Croydon residents can book £1 tickets (normally  £8 full price or £5 concession). You’ll be asked to share your post-code during the booking process to verify your Croydon address

Credits
Super Normal Extra Natural is co-Produced by The Place.
Commissioned by London Borough of Culture, The Place and Stanley Arts. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Super Normal Extra Natural is supported by Whitgift Centre.

 

Direction and Choreography: David Rosenberg and Frauke Requardt
Composer: Dave Price
Sound Designer: Mike Winship
Costume Design Supervisor: Kate Bunce
Rehearsal Director: Valentina Formenti
Dancers: Ruben Brown, Alexander Henderson, Temitope Ajose-Cutting and Anwar Russell
Production and Stage Manager: Rachel Bowen
Audio Describer: Willie Elliott
Company Producer: Nina von der Werth
Company Manager: Katherine Hurley
Assistant Stage Manager: Ella Kennedy

 

Performance times:

Friday 12 January: 4 & 6pm

Saturday 13 January: 2, 4 & 6pm

Sunday 14 January: 2 & 4pm

 

Access Information

Headphones: To experience Super Normal Extra Natural in full, audience members will be invited to listen in using headphones provided.

Seating: There is no seating, unless provided by the venue for access purposes. Audience members will be standing throughout. If you have any access requirements, please contact the box office.

Audio Description: available as a separate audio track for all performances.

Visual Story, and touch tours: available upon request.