Beyond Caring at the Yard Theatre
Fundraising campaign by
beyond1
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£470.00raised of £3,000.00 goal goal
No more donations are being accepted at this time. Please contact the campaign owner if you would like to discuss further funding opportunities
Beyond Caring:
A new play offering a voice to the
working poor
The Play
Beyond Caring is a play about life for the working poor. Developed through a collaborative process of investigation and original writing it is an honest depiction of what life is like for many people in Britain today.
Your Support Makes a Difference
Your support ensures that a voice can be given to the voiceless people working up and down the country who have neither the time, nor the resources to tell their story
The play has the support of numerous institutions working on issues such as the Living Wage as well as financial support from the Arts Council and many other foundations. Nonetheless, arts funding is so constrained in Britain today that there is still a final mile in the budget that needs to be met.
Plot Description
Four people arrive to work the night shift in a meat factory. They meet for the first time. They are employed as cleaners, by a temp agency. They are all on zero-hours contracts.
Every shift, they clean. Every four hours, they take a break. They drink tea or coffee together. They read magazines. They chat. As it gets light, they go home, or to another job. The cycle goes on. And on. Strangers. Until something stirs, until isolated people get too close to one another, too fast.
Through investigation, first-hand experience and with the involvement of people working on zero-hours contracts, the World Premiere of Alexander Zeldin’s brutally honest and darkly humorous play exposes stories of an invisible class.
We would be so grateful for any donations towards production costs.
Rewards
Special thanks from Director and Team
Free ticket to a performance of your choice
Signed copy of Beyond Caring script (plus rewards above)
Special thanks in the programme (plus rewards above)
Writing workshop with writer and Director Alexander Zeldin (plus rewards above)
Make a valued and principled statement of support to the millions of people working in hardship (plus rewards above)
Organizer
- beyond1
- London, UK
Donors
- Breda
- Donated on Jul 24, 2014
Well Done Alex
- Nora
- Donated on Jul 23, 2014
Good luck with future fundraising
No updates for this campaign just yet
Donors & Comments
- Amanda and Pete
- Donated on Jul 26, 2014
Top production! Great work all round keep going ...
- Breda
- Donated on Jul 24, 2014
Well Done Alex
- Nora
- Donated on Jul 23, 2014
Good luck with future fundraising
- Guest
- Donated on Jul 03, 2014
- George
- Donated on Jul 03, 2014
- beyond1
- Posted On Jul 01, 2014
Thank you Sharon for your support! Here is a link to my work online: http://unitedagents.co.uk/alexander-zeldin The bulk of the work I did in opera goes back a few years and is very different to what I'm doing now - however, here is a link to my Gianni Schicchi from 2008 - Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, V Gergiev http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP-0STxYBxI
- Anna Mostyn Williams
- Donated on Jun 30, 2014
- Bella
- Donated on Jun 29, 2014
- Sharon Joyce
- Donated on Jun 29, 2014
Hi, AZ. I'm a friend of Jaspreet's, and I work somewhat irregularly on operas in Germany mostly (librettist. I would love to see/read some of your opera work. Are they online? Sharon Lynn Joyce
Top production! Great work all round keep going ...