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Summer Production 2025: This Changes Everything

This Changes Everything, Written by Joel Horwood

Directed by Anna Blackburn and Rosie Thomas for Burnt Orange Theatre

A bold new society. A crumbling platform. A choice that could change everything.

Burnt Orange Theatre presents This Changes Everything by Joel Horwood. A gripping story of teenagers who vanish to build a radical new world at sea.

Created in just four days by an exceptional young cast, this powerful production asks: what happens when utopia begins to crack?

CAST:

Eleanor Atkins

Rain Spiegel

Lauren McIntyre

Vi Padamee

Esme North

Scout Fitzimons

Rhea Pereire

William Daniels

Sadie Ward

Poppy Hathway

Sanjo Thapa

Tali Lund

Sayen Sanchez

Anouska Galvin Mayes

About the production

On a platform out at sea, where a group of disillusioned young people have formed 'The Community': a new type of society attempting to lead a better way of life. Three; Alva, Kim and Klara, arrive at The Community having followed two of its members, Maja and Sam, back there.
Rows break out about the relative value of the different types of work that needs to be done. The Code by which they are all supposed to live is repeatedly edited. One is put on trial for making a joke about The Leader. And then Hanne turns up.

What kind of a world would you like to live in?
How could you start afresh?
If it all collapses and fails is that the end?
Or is failure part of a journey towards success?

How could we change the world? Should we? Where do we start?'

Summer Production 2025: This Changes Everything

About the production

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