2. Team of the Decades –
Will Dickie
Friday 24 (4 & 7pm), Saturday 25
& Sunday 26 July (2, 4 & 7pm), £5
(in advance online)
Feel the energy! Team of the Decades is
an electrifying team show for 10 people, 1
coach & one captain. Our pitch breaks out
beyond the park, along the pavements and
out across the landscape. We don’t play to
win or lose, we play to understand – figure
and ground, strength and weakness, fathers
and sons, collisions and hugs.
Made for: Players of all levels with good
team spirit.
Meeting point: The Yard Theatre, Unit 2A,
Queen’s Yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN
Symphony – Verity Standen
Friday 24, Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 July,
11am-5pm, £5 (in advance online)
Tuning forks are traditionally used for
pitching – unheard by audiences – but up
close they create beautiful, surprising
sounds as instruments in their own right.
By blending these metallic tones with live
voice, two performers will create a vivid
and unique sound world for individual
audience members in this experience by
Verity Standen (“Startling” The Guardian
(on HUG)).
Made for: Discovering new sounds
in the park.
Meeting point: RUN Sculpture
outside Copper Box Arena
The Yard Theatre presents a festival of curious adventures from some of the UK’s most
exciting theatre artists in and around Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
There’s something for you and the kids. You will have the opportunity to meet your MP aboard
a roving roundtable bicycle, to relax in a symphony created entirely for you, or head out on a
buzzy mission to save the Queen Bee’s hive. You can have a psychic reading or become part
of the Team of the Decades. There will be performances on rooftops, in underpasses and one
very special encounter, on a tiny boat, in the dead of night, floating alone in the middle of the
London Aquatics Centre.
WEEK 1:
This Is What Democracy Looks
Like! – Ellie Harrison
Thursday 16, Friday 17 & Saturday
18 July, 1-6pm, Free (unticketed)
Meet & greet your newly elected politicians
at a roving roundtable discussion upon a
bicycle built for seven. Hop on, decide on
your direction and then travel together
through Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park whilst
discussing the issues that matter to you with
the people in power. Featuring: Jim Fitzpatrick
- MP for Poplar & Limehouse and Meg Hillier
- MP Hackney South & Shoreditch. Full list and
schedule online!
Made for: Local people with lots to say.
Meeting point: Outside Copper Box
Arena main entrance
Be Bees – Nigel and Louise
Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 July,
1-5pm, Free (unticketed)
Calling all bees! The Queen Bee has an exciting
mission for kids and their adults. Collect pollen
from the talking flowers hidden around the
park before the dusk comes and the flowers
go to sleep, but beware of the badgers. Award
winning theatre makers Nigel Barrett and
Louise Mari (“wonderful, magical strangeness”
Time Out) have created a mad dash across the
park for bees of all ages. Come dressed as a
bee, or if you don’t have anything black and
yellow, don’t worry, The Queen Bee will dress
you for your mission when you report for duty
at the Hive.
Made for: Children, families, bees and badgers.
Meeting point: Alfred’s Meadow
(near to Timber Lodge Café)
WEEK 3:
Hurtling – Greg Wohead
Friday 31 July, Saturday 1 & Sunday
2 August, 12pm-4pm & 5-8pm each day,
£5 (in advance online)
A high up outdoor performance for one
with a cassette player and headphones.
Hurtling is a glimpse of a fleeting moment
as it zooms past; an attempt to grasp at a
slippery present. Made by Greg Wohead,
performed by Anne Langford.
Made for: Those who like their theatre
with a view.
Meeting Point: The Yard Theatre, Unit 2A,
Queen’s Yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN
drift – Amy Sharrocks
11pm Saturday 1 - 5am Sunday 2 August,
Free (18 places - ticket lottery online)
Amy Sharrocks invites you to join her in her
boat, to push off from the madding crowd
and float away. Step off dry land, take the
weight off your feet and explore how to
drift, as night becomes dawn. A 15-minute
live artwork for one person, taking place for
one night only in the former Olympic Pool.
On water that has been the site of epic
struggle and effort, and under that huge
wave of a ceiling, come and meander
through a nocturnal daydream.
Made for: An unmissable and
unique experience.
Meeting point: London Aquatics Centre
WEEK 2:
The Psychic Encounter –
Stacy Makishi
Thursday 23, Friday 24, Saturday 25 July,
11am-4pm, Free (in advance online)
Hawaii-born Stacy Makishi reads between
the lines in this hilarious psychic encounter.
Get ready to discover more about yourself
like never before and see what the
headlines make of you.
Made for: Lovers of Mystic Meg.
Meeting point: Outside Timber Lodge Café
Scottee’s Podium
Thursday 23, Friday 24, Saturday 25 July,
11.30am-3.30pm, Free (unticketed)
Scottee is a reluctant adult. And he is inviting
kids to climb our podium, grab a megaphone
and shout about anything you want! Bored of
tall people making decisions for you? Want
to be the next Prime Minister? Perhaps you
just want to tell everyone what you ate for
dinner?! A performance experience for kids
(but we won’t stop adults with a sense of
adventure from joining in).
Made for: Kids with something to say.
Meeting point: Near to Timber Lodge Cafe
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Be Bees Team of the Decades
This Is What Democracy
Looks Like!
Symphony
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3. About The Yard Theatre
We’re a theatre, bar and kitchen in Hackney Wick. We are a space to
explore new ideas, to nurture new talent and share new experiences.
We’re a place to get away from the everyday. A place where you
can hear and look at the world differently, a place where you will
experience something new.
Between 16 July and 2 August, The Yard Theatre warehouse in Queen’s
Yard will break free from their warehouse to Queen Elizabeth Olympic
Park and the streets of Hackney Wick to encourage you to experience
new worlds on your doorstep.
About Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
The Local Programme is a new initiative run by our Regeneration
and Community Partnerships team to ensure that there is a foundation
of year-round events and activity on the Park that represent
and celebrate the diversity and energy of east London and its
communities. Our aim is to have a varied and inspirational programme
of high quality events, activities and projects helping to deliver the
vision of an inspiring, creative and welcoming Park.
Since October 2014 we have commissioned 16 inspirational projects
from artist residencies and participatory workshops to interactive art
installations and music, dance and theatre performances. Find out more
at QueenElizabethOlympicPark.co.uk/our-story/transforming-east-
london/cultural-east-london/local-programme
Credits:
Walkie Talkies is presented by The Yard Theatre
Artistic Director: Jay Miller
Associate Producer: Beckie Darlington
LLDC Local Programme Manager: Anna Godsiff
LLDC Head of Arts and Culture: Adriana Marques
Thank you to: Arts Council England, Better Leisure, 7GoCycling
www.7gocycling.co.uk, Grow Hackney www.growhackney.co.uk and
Tiptree www.tiptree.com
More Information & Booking:
Get tickets online at www.theyardtheatre.co.uk or call 07548 156 266 for more information
@yardtheatre facebook.com/theyardtheatre #WalkieTalkies
Find out more and enter the ticket lottery to win a ticket to see ‘drift’
at QueenElizabethOlympicPark.co.uk/events
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