David Shearing is an award-winning artist who creates immersive multimedia installations. His recent work, the Rising Sun, a building filled with light and voices, stopped Romford in its tracks when it was situated in the town centre earlier this year. Designed to represent a public house, The Rising Sun space offered a magical environment to experience, while listening to the recorded stories of the people of Romford.
Now the artist has found another intriguing space to invite visitors and stimulate conversation. For his Blueprint festival event at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, Shearing presents This Story is True for Most of Us, on 23-24 September. It will take place (weather permitting) on the roof of our recently grade-II listed building.
He will seat visitors – an intimate maximum gathering of 12 for each performance – at a 10-metre long table set up on the roof for five brief plant-based tasting moments, while he leads them via headphones towards some of the most challenging climate questions of our time.
This Story Is True For Most Of Us is part of Blueprint: a festival of new ideas at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch (12-24 September). It is two weeks of 12 performances and events inside and outside the theatre using every available space from the rooftop to the basement and carpark – with new writing, immersive experiences, a scratch night, culinary delights, promenade performances, Essex stories, accessible performances, DJ Deaf Rave and more. Most events are £5 plus 65p QNext Fee and some are free.
For more information and booking visit queens-theatre.co.uk/whats-on and search for Blueprint.
