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An immersive multi-story speculation on need, greed and good intentions, HOME TRUTHS is revealed through the world premieres of nine short plays. Each Cycle can be seen as a stand-alone event, or you can book for two or three Cycles to receive a special discounted rate. On two days, audiences will also be able to join Cardboard Citizens for a serious theatrical sit-in and watch all nine plays in one day as a Tri-Cycle, with a special discounted ticket rate and plenty of surprises planned... Henrietta - June 1936. In a purgatorial reunion with her late husband Samuel, the philanthropist and social reformer Henrietta Barnett is asked what she would consider her greatest achievement. Her answer lies in NW11 between Golders Green and Finchley. But a trip to the 21st century might just trigger a rude awakening... Nostalgia - It's 1946, Anna's sick and she knows what she's got. She tries to tell her husband Martin, who is back from the war, and their friend Abel and then the doctor. She had it before the little place, it got a bit better in the communist squat, then worse again in the pigsty. But no one believes her illness is real, or what it means or that you can die from it. Grip - A series of unforeseen events change 51 year old Lorna's life irrevocably. When she is diagnosed with terminal cancer, only days afterwards, in a freak timing of events, her landlord announces that he is evicting her and she is plunged into a world she knows nothing of. Benefits, homelessness testing, bidding for social housing.

Creatives/Company

Company: Cardboard Citizens
Author(s): David Watson (Henrietta), EV Crowe (Nostalgia), Chris O'Connell (Grip)