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Image shows the backstage team for The Rep's Order and Chaos Festival stood onstage. They are all pulling funny faces - with most holding their arms out and smiling.

Building a sustainable Festival

As part of our Declaration of Emergency, we have committed to making our productions more sustainably focussed.

Find out more about what our brilliant workshop team have done to make one of the headlining shows for Young Rep’s Festival of Order and Chaos (The Trials by Dawn King: a powerful play tackling the climate emergency), as sustainable as possible…

  • The stairs, hand rails and the treads have come from our store rooms and will have a future life in future productions
  • The steel from the handrails on the platforms will be recycled
  • The scaffolding legs were new material but will be sent back to the metal workshop to be reused for a future Rep Original
  • The twin wall that makes up the projection screens is reused from a previous set
  • The steel deck that makes up the platforms has been reused from last year’s Tartuffe
Order and Chaos Production Photo. Image shows a large group of young people underneath the scaffolding-like set. They are all wearing black and are throwing a rope to an actor who is crouched at the front of the stage.

Set of Order & Chaos Festival, 2023

Production image from Tartuffe. Image shows Asif Khan as Tartuffe stood in the middle of the stage all in white. He is holding his hands out and he is looking up to the sky. A white staircase is visible in the background. Photo by Geraint Lewis

Set of Tartuffe, 2022

Overall, the entire set was approximately 80% recycled and the new material will go on to have a future life in another show or will be recycled.

Our backstage team have done a fantastic job to make this production one that not only raises awareness of the Climate Emergency to our audiences, but it has also been revolutionary in our internal processes for creating shows.

 

Go Team Rep!