The ‘Food Bank Generation’ Game fuses the somewhat unlikely components of hunger poverty and classic television gameshows as a provocative vehicle to explore the plight of foodbank use and other pressures facing residents of the Sunderland area and wider region.
Developed alongside local residents, organisations, and service users, this play-along ‘golden generation’ gameshow – think The Generation Game, Supermarket Sweep, Play Your Cards Right - is packed with practical games and tasks designed to entertain whilst drawing attention to their underlying stories to highlight current issues as well as ‘the positive side of poverty’ through humour, pathos, human spirit and sense of community.
Tracey Mienie – Centre Manager, Seventeen Nineteen.
"We are absolutely delighted to be hosting another fabulous production from Theatre Space North East, the “Foodbank Generation Game”, part of the Bitesize programme facilitated and co-ordinated by The Cultural Spring. As always it should be an exciting, engaging and no doubt entertaining evening, not to be missed.
Reverend David Chadwick - St Pauls Church Ryhope:
'St Paul's Church, Ryhope, is delighted to be hosting Theatre Space North East as part of the Cultural Spring. We firmly believe in the power of the arts to transform thinking and that they should be made available to everyone, wherever they live. Being a local performance space is very important to us.'
Dianne Richardson
The Forage Community Project CIC
“We are delighted to be hosting a show that’s not only relevant to the work we do here at Forage, but also the first ever Theatre Performance in Barmston area”
Abigail is an actor and director from Murton, County Durham. Abigail has recently appeared in The Old Oak (Ken Loach), Arbuthnot and Pals (Customs House) and Britains Got Talent: The Champions (ITV). Abigail is really looking forward to working with Theatre Space and can’t wait to perform in some interesting venues in the North East.
After taking a bit of a break from the professional acting scene, Siobhan is back and in her own words is ".. just so happy to be involved in this extremely important project" and is excited to be working with Team Theatre Space NE for the first time. Siobhan has worked with some incredible North East talent.
Philip has been an actor for a number of years now. Mainly living and working on Teesside. He has appeared in numerous stage productions, recently ‘Road’ at Northern Stage and even more recently in NTC’s production of ‘Wind in the Willows’ and the world premiere of ‘Between two worlds’ at the Brundibar festival. He has a number of TV appearances, including Emmerdale, The Dumping ground and Vera.