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	"An Urban Scrooge for the modern stage with a young woman fighting for life itself..." DAO 2009

	The Journey

Crossings was commissioned as work in progress by DaDa Festival (Deaf and Disability Arts) Liverpool. An extraordinary team of creatives brought the production together, directed by Karena Johnson with set designed by Chris de Wilde and visuals by Caglar Kimyoncu.

The production uses integrated sign language throughout created by Hetty May Bailey, interpreter and BSL consultant. It opened at The Cochrane Theatre in London to full houses in June 09 before transferring to Treasure House Theatre and Bird Theatre, Liverpool.

The full production launched RichMix's Identity and Migration season directed by the inimitable Paulette Randall, starring Margo Cargill, Nadine Wild Palmer and Julie McNamara. Crossings was one of the hottest theatre tickets at the Decibel showcase in Manchester and went on to tour throughout the UK.

	The Creative Team
The Tour

		Director Paulette Randall Director Karena Johnson (Work in Progress) Set & Custom Designer Chris de Wilde Composer Susannah Self Visuals Designer Caglar Kimyoncu Soundscape Theo Holloway Lighting Designer 1 Gursen Houssein Lighting Designer 2 Crin Claxton Visuals Operation Finbar Cahill Trainee Lighting Assistant Alan Clifton BSL Interpreter & Narrator Hetty May Bailey Actors Nzingah 1 Margo Cargill Nzingah 2 Naomi Cortes Shelley 1 Nadine Wild Palmer Shelley 2 Sophie Benjamin Heggarty Julie McNamara
Tobacco Factory, Bristol 5th, 6th & 7th November 2009 The Cochrane Theatre, London 17th & 18th November 2009 Unity Theatre, Liverpool 20th November 2009 Arena, Wolverhampton 26th & 27th November 2009 Darlington Arts Centre 1st December 2009 Salisbury Arts Centre 10th December 2009 Contact, Manchester 3rd & 4th Frebruary 2010 The Baby Grand Grand Opera House, Belfast 9th, 10th & 11th February 2010

	Web Design: Lesley Willis and Julie McNamara © Julie McNamara 2011

Shelley is 15, pregnant and she wants to get out of the gang. But you don't do that, do you? In a raging storm one night, she finds shelter on an old ferry boat. But this is no ordinary boat, this is the ghost of the Zong, a slave ship with a murderous history. Confronted by two powerful voices on board Shelley finds herself questioning everything she holds dear and is forced to fight for her future. Who are these ghostly visitors? Are they for or against her and will she ever get out of this alive?

Shelley wants out

Heggarty confronts Nzingah as a panic stricken Shelley tries to intervene. Pictured: Margo Cargill as Nzingah and Nadine Wild Palmer as Shelley.

Directed by Paulette Randall