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Papi Jeovani and Rhian Jade are Northeast-based artists and founders of SoreSlap theatre. BroadwayWorld grabs a moment with them after one of their performances to ask them about staging complex narratives, making theatre more inclusive, and the ethos behind their company. Writing in the Guardian, Professor Steve Bruce from the University of Aberdeen issued a plea to readers: “If No Irish signs were as common as is asserted, there should be plenty of them remaining in private collections, local archives and the like. Twenty years ago I tried without success to find one and had to fake one for a book cover. Can we please see some?”

The piece from SoreSlap Theatre will run at the Newcastle upon Tyne venue from 15 November – 3 December 2022. It's gentility, love, friendship, good, old-fashioned storytelling, and physical theatre that carry you through their tales. Rosie Bowden's direction expertly contains the multi-faceted staging, which is simple in terms of the set, yet complicated in physical movement and the staging of the intricacies of the script. Physical theatre elevates the already gorgeous writing within the show. Richard first printed the T-shirts six years ago and was pictured wearing it with DJ Swiss from So Solid Crew. And the Global Majority artists are there too - there are artists to champion and to stage. What has SoreSlap offered you, Rhian?When I came here I thought all of this [experience] would make a good show. Papi was really interested in that. SoreSlap came from this ethos; that we can share that space with other people.

Most boarding houses were ran by single women, often middle aged or elderly widows, who were trying to make ends meet. It’s perfectly understandable that they would be choosy about who they let rooms to. Writer and performer for Sore Slap Theatre, Papi Jeovani comments, We decided to write this show as we knew it was needed in today's social climate. This show introduces the world to a form of storytelling rarely used on the stage. It's innovating, exciting, gets the blood pumping and makes people stop and think. We knew going in we didn't want a passive audience and using spoken word and physical theatre, the audience will be constantly engaged. Taking that negative and turning it into a positive, in this current climate it’s important,” O’Gorman told the Irish Post. Papi: We've been doing that since we met. When doing spoken word poetry, Rhian spoke about sexuality and being a woman, and I about race, so we intertwined them with each other. I don't like it when people compare oppressions - it doesn't work like that. In an interview with London-Irish publication the Irish Post, O’Gorman said that he’d initially made a t-shirt with that message a few years ago, but only this year did he decide to really go with the idea.Set in the not-too-distant future, where toxic masculinity is rewarded and femininity is seen as weak, worlds collide when two people are confined to neighbouring prison cells. Only when they are given no other option, do they find that their lives are more similar than they could have ever imagined. Papi: I'm originally from Angola, Africa. I came to England when I was two and then moved to Newcastle at three or four years old - so I've been here for twenty-odd years. My younger sisters were into musical theatre, and I saw my first piece of spoken word in year 12. When I got to university, I got more into that. And met Rhian and their creative ideas. All our garments are ethically produced: read our full ethical policy here. Size Guide (N.b. all sizes are approximate) Size The play takes two totally different experiences of the world and investigates how the characters see and experience it without pitting them against each other. It's an exciting seed to plant for the ethos of the company. Papi, how was it when Rhian came to you and said that they'd had a dream about you being in prison?

We chose the slogan for this project as communities were inspired by its empowering and unifying message, with one participant saying, “It says it all”. We want to thank Richy and Taurayne for coining the now iconic slogan and supporting our project.

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Rhian: [Papi and I] met at university. We put on a show called Poetry Slap, which was spoken word and physical theatre, and was very much about female identity and male identity, race, and sexuality. People seemed to really connect with that because they hadn't seen that story being told yet - not just "man-meets-woman-and-falls-in-love". So, that was a new thing for a lot of the young, queer artists that we knew at the time. Some people don’t understand where the message originally came from, so it’s about educating people.’

Seen modelling their own t-shirts, this couple were spotted walking through Brixton Village/Granville Arcade yesterday. The Clapham Grand announces partnership with Terrence Higgins Trust, supporting World AIDS Day 2023 Dogs were not treated as surrogate children as they are now, people were adults and made of sterner stuff, many having been through two world wars.. Most people did not have vaccuum cleaners. Why on Earth would they want a stranger’s dog in their home ? Plus there’s the smells, the barking etc. At RedMolotov.com we specialise in producing high-quality, ethically-sourced t-shirts. We pride ourselves in using the best materials we can find, which is why our t-shirts will not fall out of shape after a few washes like other cheaper varieties you may find for sale elsewhere. Papi: Because they won't have seen anything like it before. In some shape or form, it might change their lives.The narrative follows Ailish and Marcus, both incarcerated and reflecting on what brought them to their current situation. As you encounter their reality, there's a poetic quality to the script that adds an element of ethereal escapism. Moments of the play take your breath away. We liked this idea, thinking about whether we are really guilty, or if the world makes people do things to make them guilty. Or, are we our behaviour? Are we our actions? Papi: Marshal [choreographer Marshal Siziba] came in to choreograph the more "dance-y" parts of the show. He was a great help and he came in with his own ideas. Together, we worked to make it more physical. Rhian: That was something that we did consciously examine; how to merge the stories together without there being "sides". We wrote this into the script, thinking about what would happen if they [Ailish and Marcus] did start to reflect on the "severity" of their story. But the more we worked on the characters, the more love we found between them. It was a nice throughline that they have this growing fondness for each other. That platonic relationship. That bond. Even though I was into drama so young, I didn't step foot into a theatre until I was sixteen. That was Live's Youth Theatre [in Newcastle]. It was a whole different world. I never felt like... I could go to the theatre? With the Theatre Royal, too. I only went there recently, even though I walked past it every single day. It didn't feel for people like me. The theatre world is still so white. I saw Ankles at the Northern Stage and there were only nine non-white people in the audience. Having over a hundred chairs in there, and having nine non-white people in the audience is good. Alphabetti is staging a lot more work by non-white people. We want people to take up space [through SoreSlap].