Priority booking for Festival Passes open now until 30 June.
Theatre is now a dangerous threat.
Consequently, the Belgrade Theatre has been cordoned off from the public for years. The power theatre holds in igniting change and encouraging action is too frightening to local authorities who act quickly to contain it.
But suddenly, people noticed the unexpected growth of a tree in the centre of the theatre. It changed everything.
In The Meantime We Try brings together the Belgrade Theatre with its’ communities to celebrate the work of its newly formed HUBs and Youth Forum. The festival gives voice to its HUBs members who seek to answer the question, “What does it mean to be useful?”
Join us as the Belgrade Theatre opens its doors once again for an immersive day of theatre, workshops, stalls, and artwork. Each of the Belgrade’s Hubs have devised performances inspired by Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Complicite Theatre Company, which is a play based on a novel by Olga Tokarczuk.
The festival will take place from 10.30am to 3.30pm. (We encourage audiences to book the Festival Pass which includes all performances throughout the day).
The Belgrade will be open to non-ticket holders from 1pm-3.30pm where there will be free activities and stalls across our foyer spaces run by local community groups working in sustainability and environmental conservation.
Bookings for Festival Passes, where audiences go on a special adventure kicking off from 10.30am in the foyer and include access to all performances, are open until 30 June only. BOOK A FESTIVAL PASS
Alternatively you can book for individual performances via the links below.
Over 50s HUB presents Heartwood
B2 – 11am (please arrive at 10.30am)
When Chloe finds an acorn her whole life changes. What can nature teach us about the acceptance of the cycle of life and how can art help us in that journey? Belgrade Theatre Over 50s Hub participants have devised a piece based on a combination of their investigation into “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead”, their experiences of many decades living on this planet, and their years of making theatre, which seeks to explore those two questions and more.
16 – 25s HUB presents Commitment Issues
Nineteen 58 – 11:45am
Welcome to the neighbourhood. This is our home. It’s not very pretty to look at and rubbish is piling up. No morning hellos, no pride, no connection.
But one day, the rubbish has gone and the mood changes. Suddenly people are looking at each other in the eye and smiling.
Our 16-25s HUB have co-created a community that we invite the audience to come and be a part of – What happens when we all work together to look after our neighbourhood?
11 -16s HUB presents We’re All Alone in this Together, Right?
Outside B2 – 12.30pm
Do you think the grades you get in school will determine how useful you are in society?
What’s the most tedious part of your day?
What was one piece of history you lived through that you’ll never forget?
Our 11-16s HUB have been conducting interviews with family members, friends, teachers and community leaders in order to investigate our feelings of usefulness and uselessness at different stages of life.
Fusing together verbatim theatre techniques with physical theatre, We’re All Alone in this Together, Right? asks whether we really are so different from one another, or whether we are more united and have more in common than that which divides us.
8-11s HUB presents We’ve Got the Dreamer’s Disease
Main Stage – 1.15pm
In the spring, beautiful blossom grew from the tree. In the summer, we climbed the branches to the very top. But in the autumn, yellow and orange leaves crunched underneath our feet, and the tree looked nothing like it did before.
Years ago, when Skye’s grandma was younger, she planted a seed, which grew into a mighty tree. The tree has stood for as long as Skye can remember, but maybe it’s time for something better to take its place? After all, it might have been useful once, but it isn’t any more. It’s in the way. We no longer have any use for it.
When Riley and Sienna decide it’s time for the tree to be cut down, it’s up to Skye and her friends to fight for it. But who’s going to listen to a bunch of kids?
Our 8-11s HUB have devised their own original piece of theatre, based on ideas around use, the environment, difference and our right to protest.
Sharing Cultures Group presents In the Meantime We Write
All day
A series of small videos sharing stories and poems written by the participants of the Sharing Cultures group, a partnership between Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre and Belgrade Theatre Coventry exploring themes they identified in “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead”: Animals, Police, Revenge, Friendship, Murder and Judging People.
NON TICKETED EVENT