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The Whispering Jungle UK Tour
Project Type
Pilot Tour, August 2021.
National Tour, August - November 2023.
Cast and Creative Team
2021 Cast:
Monkey - Emily Gray
Bird - Sophie Clay
Turtle - Cathy Walker
2021 Creative Team:
Devised by - Concrete Youth
Director & Lyrics - Belle Streeton
Creative Producer - Daniel Swift
Musical Director - James Frewer
Sound Designer - Tom Smith
Set Designer - Lu Herbert
Set Builder - Mathew Stirk
Puppet Designer - Amy Nicholson
Technical Stage Manager - Tabitha Sylvester-Kilroy
Lighting Designer - Jessie Addinall
2023 Cast:
Monkey - Finn Kebbe
Turtle - Ewan S Pires
Bird - Laura Kaye Thomson
Creative Team 2023:
Devised by - Concrete Youth
Director & Lyrics - Belle Streeton
Creative Producer - Daniel Swift
Musical Director - James Frewer
Sound Designer - Tom Smith
Set Designer - Lu Herbert
Set Builder - Mathew Stirk
Puppet Designer - Amy Nicholson
Production Manager - Isabel Potter
Technical Stage Manager - Charlie Mackenzie-Barrow
Sound Engineer - Hazel Warren-Cooke
Lighting Designer - Jessie Addinall
Relighter - Brett Kasza
Set Alterations - RT Scenic
Role
Director
Location
Hull Truck Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, Colchester Arts Centre & Dorchester Arts Centre (2022).
The Lowry, Mercury Theatre, Applecart Arts Centre (London), Cornerstone Arts Centre, Attenborough Arts Centre, Nonsuch Studios, Interplay Theatre, York Theatre Royal, Barnsley Civic Theatre, Henshaw Arts Centre & Norwich Theatre. (2023)
The Turtle, the Monkey, and the Bird have all lost their home. Men in big, bright, yellow jackets came and chopped down all the trees. Now they’re forced away to fend for themselves, make their own new homes and pick up the pieces of the mess that the humans have left behind. How will the animals cope on their own? What can humans do to make the world better for the animals of the rainforest? And why is the Turtle so clumsy?
Concrete Youth’s new multi-sensory theatre production, The Whispering Jungle, brings together ASMR, sensory play and sensory puppets in an immersive touring production for young audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilities. Come and help the animals of the rainforest rebuild their home and realise that home really is wherever you’re with your family.
The Whispering Jungle was developed off the back of Concrete Youth's pioneering, The ASMR Project, an international research project that brought together UK, US and Singapore academics, artists and professionals to explore the impact of autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) on people labelled with profound and multiple learning disabilities for the very first time. The ASMR Project's research findings, and this subsequent production of The Whispering Jungle was developed in collaboration with 750 people labelled with profound and multiple learning disabilities across the UK.
The Whispering Jungle's 2023 National Tour was in association with Mercury Theatre, Colchester and supported by Arts Council England, Hull City Council and Back to Ours.
