THE RESIDENCY · THEATRE DELI · 2024
Sharing is Caring: The European Dream
WRITTEN BY KLERVI GAVET · DIRECTED BY BARIS CELILOGLU
Set in modern-day London, the play follows a young international squat the day they are discovered by the police. What started as a utopian community soon turns into a war zone, where old friendships break and unlikely alliances form.
A metaphor on Europe — celebrating our collective history in all its glory and grief, and examining the impact of high-level politics on ordinary interactions.
What is privilege? Can one ever unlearn what they've been taught?
THE TEAM
CAST
Dan Anderson · Rachael Cummins · Jim Duah · Klervi Gavet · Luca Lavagetto · Jean Lee Summers
CREW
Büke Erkoç, Assistant Director · Ceren Özbudun, Sound Designer · Beril Yavuz, Lighting Designer
It was awarded a 2-week residency with Theatre Deli at the 2024 VOILA! Festival.
It played to 100+ people on 2 sold-out nights on the 24th and 25th November.
THE PRODUCTION
Awarded a 2-week residency with Theatre Deli at the 2024 VOILA! Festival.
Played 2 sold-out nights on 24-25 November.
AROUND THE PLAY
At the heart of its DNA, Big Sister carries a desire to rethink the place theatre holds in our lives. We place our projects inside a wider experience, one that reaches past the two hours you spend within four walls on a given night.
Below is what that has looked like so far.
A FUNDRAISER
A techno night in support of our production 'Sharing is Caring'.
The play includes a key scene set at an underground electronic rave. This event invited audiences to experience that world in real life - before seeing it brought to the stage.
While raising essential funds, the night was a creative bridge deepening public engagement with the themes of the production: migration, community, and collective joy.
A PUBLIC READING 26.10.24
An afternoon reading of the script at the Museum of Home in Hoxton, open to anyone with a stake in housing, migrant rights and modern politics — and a way for voices outside the company to shape a play still being written.
21.9.24
