Where Are We Going?

Where Are We Going? was a site specific, multi-sensory, multi-media performance project for students at the Bridge School, a school for students with Severe and Profound Learning Difficulties. 

Over seven weeks artists from the Almeida Theatre and volunteers from the law firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP worked with twenty-one students, their teachers and teaching assistants at The Bridge School. 

Once a week, on a Tuesday afternoon, we joined the students in their weekly drama lesson, using movement, voice, music and film to explore the journeys that they take every day to school.  These are journeys that would soon change dramatically – with the whole school due to move to a brand new home next door to Holloway School in September 2007. 

The final piece used film projection, lights, sounds and touch to create an extraordinary journey through the school for the participants and their audience.  The film work linked the performance with students from Holloway, who appeared on screen to welcome the students to their new school.

Three professional performers – Martin Barron, Sally Okafor and Freddie Opoko Addaie – acted alongside the students, leading scenes with call and response, dance and movement.

Where Are We Going? was Almeida Projects’ first collaboration with the Bridge School, a school for students with Severe and Profound Learning difficulties.  It was funded through a joint bid to Arts and Business by the Almeida and Cadwalader.