Requiem For Change

Written and Directed by David Glass
Musical Director: John Sharpley

Music adapted from Hans Zimmer, Max Richter and Philip Glass with songs by Bill Hayley, David Bowie, Antony and the Johnsons and Talking Heads.
Inspired by Naomi Klein’s earth-shattering book This Changes Everything, the David Glass Ensemble, LASALLE College of the Arts (Faculty of Performing Arts) and East 15 Acting School presents a global collaboration. Requiem For Change is an epic devised work about the titanic struggle between late-Capitalism and Climate Change; potentially the last great story of humanity.

Introduction

Inspired by Naomi Klein’s earth-shattering book This Changes Everything, the David Glass Ensemble, LASALLE College of the Arts (Faculty of Performing Arts) and East 15 Acting School presents a global collaboration. Requiem For Change is an epic devised work about the titanic struggle between late-Capitalism and Climate Change; potentially the last great story of humanity.

Klein is an investigative journalist researching Capitalism’s effect on Climate Change, while her sister Naomi is a reclusive cellist who is battling nature to become pregnant. Naomi’s husband, Mahler is struggling to write a requiem to be performed at the close of the World Climate Change Summit in November 2016. Requiem for Change moves across fragments of time — from the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps in 1945, to the story of Gaia, Naomi and Mahler’s young daughter, in today’s world. It chronicles the biggest global undertaking ever envisaged and enacted by human beings to save the planet and ourselves.

This project involves and evolves out of the coming generation of artists whose lives will be most affected by the coming storm. The Ensemble is now in discussions with major co-producers to create the fourth professional iteration in 2021 — five years after the signing of the Paris Agreement. Watch this space.

Productions

East 15 UK Productions
Lighting Design: David Glass and Steve Owen
Set Design: Carlos Morel Reis
LASALLE College of the Arts Production
Director: David Glass
Assistant Director: Elisabeth Gunawan
Musical Director: John Stephen Sharpley
Lighting Designer: Tommy Wong
AV Designer: Shaggy
Costume Designer: Leonard Choo
Sound Designer: Titus Lemuel

Testimonials

"History knocked at your door. Did you answer it?"
Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything
"The images and set pieces were totally stunning. The beginning of an important piece of epic theatre"
Mike Alfreds - Theatre Director
"David Glass remains one of the pioneers and key figures of British and International Theatre."
John McGrath - Artistic Director of Manchester International Festival
"Energetic and visceral, uses the physicality of the performers to full effect, skillfully weaving together a strong visual language with narrative. David Glass has created an epic yet intimate production, which engages the audience to question their humanity, through stories which are personal and universal."
Tracey Low - Producer Manchester International Festival

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