As part of our final 3rd year assessment, we were asked to collaboratively create a piece of live performance. During which will enable us to develop and consolidate our compositional, theoretical and contextual enquiries into our own independent practice. Throughout rehearsal and our final performance we were to demonstrate levels of compositional, contextual, and critical thinking and realisation consistent with professional arts practice.

As a collective we discussed what we wanted to focus our piece on, with the theme of current issues being the most dominant, and what’s more current that the ongoing refugee crisis? Choosing this subject we knew would be difficult, as it is so serious, with people’s lives in the balance, but it is something that we are all affected by. Just because it isn’t happening to us, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening, and doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen to us one day. We wanted to look through what the media says, and get to what is really important. Simply; human beings trying to survive, and how this may affect us positively or negatively.

Taking inspiration from practitioners and theatre companies such as Brecht, Frantic Assembly, Mr and Mrs Clark, and Kneehigh, TinCan Theatre present Home is the Mouth of a Shark. A thought-provoking and eye opening piece of theatre, incorporating elements of spoken word, physical theatre and music, which collaboratively creates a sense of being in someone else’s shoes. What would you do, what should our role be, and ultimately what’s next?