Contacting The World

Liverpool will host an extraordinary theatrical exchange this summer, as Contacting the World comes to the city.




Created by the award winning Contact Theatre, 12 of the world's newest theatre companies have been randomly twinned and given one mission: to produce a unique creative work in collaboration with each other for 2008.




Having worked together for 10 months, 150 young people from Berlin, Bethlehem, Gdansk, Istanbul, Kathmandu, Liverpool, London, Lusaka, Manchester, Mumbai, New York and Rio de Janeiro will unite in Liverpool and share their work.




Contacting the World addresses themes of communication on a global scale, allowing young artists to share their home cultures, hopes and fears with their exchange partners.




Contacting the World first began in 2002 and, since then, hundreds of young people have participated in a process of making new, passionate, transforming theatre that reflects the world around them.




Young performers take part in a creative journey of intercultural understanding and exploration, learning how theatre is made around the world and how different lives are lived.




The culmination is an extraordinary week-long festival of new performance work, creative workshops, street events, discussions, cabarets and parties.




Audiences can enjoy performances at LIPA and the Unity Theatre, with free street performances throughout the week in Hope Street and as part of Brouhaha on the 2nd of August.

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