Hot Orange

For ages 13+ and young adults

 

Research and development piece created part of the Narratives of Empathy and Resilience programme at the Half Moon Theatre 2021.

​

Narratives of Empathy and Resilience engaged a diverse range of freelance artists who spent three months collaborating and creating theatre for young audiences, from birth to teenagers and young adults.

​

Hot Orange is an exploration of friendship, reconstructed memories and the liberating power of playtime imagination, as two teenage girls from very different worlds, meet again after 8 years. Set in their childhood playground basketball court, Hot Orange interrogates childhood intimacy and the moment when you fall in love: feelings that are shattered by the darker reactions of others. Using spoken word, framed within an evocative soundscape, the piece presents audiences with a powerful and honest contemporary narrative of queer love in childhood.

 

Cast
Amina – Amal Khalidi
Tandeki – Tatenda Naomi Matsvai

Creative Team
Writers – Amal Khalidi and Tatenda Naomi Matsvai
Additional text – Rori Endersby
Stage, Projection and Costume Designer – Roisin Martindale
Composer and Sound Designer – Adam Paroussos
Co-Director – Rori Endersby
Co-Director – Chris Elwell
Lighting Design, Production and Technical Manager – Samuel Baker
Technical Stage Manager – Callum Thomson
Trainee TYA Producer (Empathy and Resilience) – Esther Rennae Walker
Project Dramaturge (spoken word) – Rosemary Harris
Camera Operator and Film Editor – Ella Bennett

Thanks to: the young people who use the basketball court on the Roupell Park Estate, SW2