When the World Turns: Manifesto of Care

When the World Turns is a collaboration across time and space with Polyglot Theatre (Australia). Together, we headed into, as co-director Sue Giles called it, ‘gloriously unknown territory.’ Just a few of the juicy questions we tried to answer together were: How do you collaborate internationally in a sustainable way? How can biophilia – humans’ innate love for, and need to connect with, living beings – inform the design? And how do you create and tour a show that includes hundreds of plants? Collaborating with leading eco-scenographer Dr Tanja Beer pushed our practice forward, for this show and all our future work.

We used what we discovered during our four-year collaboration to create this Manifesto of Care. It’s a guide, and commitment, to caring for all the living beings who were part of the first UK tour of specialist schools, and will help us navigate the future tour of public venues.