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TRAILER

‘ASTRA Theatrical Trailer’, a one minute video introducing the multimedia theatre piece ASTRA, written and produced by Naomi Foyle. The trailer features footage of table-top and shadow puppets designed and built by Raven Kaliana, reviewer quotes from Reviews Hub and Fringe Review, and interview footage with Voice Actress/Singer Susanna Paisio. An Arts Council England funded production.

ASTRA: OPENING NIGHT

1ST JUNE 2022, IRONWORKS STUDIOS, BRIGHTON. PHOTOS BY DIENSEN PAMBEN @photo_diensen, CURATED BY JENNI LEWIN AT URBANFLO CREATIVES.

WEDNESDAY 1ST JUNE 2022, IRONWORKS STUDIOS, BRIGHTON CURATED BY JENNI LEWIN AT URBANFLO CREATIVES. A multimedia theatre production for adults based on Naomi Foyle’s eco-SciFi series The Gaia Chronicles, designed and directed by Raven Kaliana. BSL Interpretation and Audio Description are integrated into this adaptation written and produced by Foyle. ASTRA was followed by a Q&A discussion on the show’s challenging themes, which include racism, disability rights, child abuse and climate crisis. PHOTOGRAPHY BY DIENSEN PAMBEN

British Sign Language Interpreter Sumayya Si-Tayeb signing in front of the shadow puppetry screen with a figure of a man in uniform

Puppeteers Sara Guedes, Raven Kaliana and Gun Suen taking a bow with the puppets of Astra, Lilt and Muzi

Puppeteer Gun Suen with puppet Peat, a young man with a large Afro sitting in a witness stand

A shadow puppetry scene of a family sitting in a tent. There is a white crook-handled cane in the background.

Sumayya Si-Tayeb signing the Q&A session as Naomi Foyle speaks into the mic and Raven Kaliana listens

Naomi Foyle posing, smiling, with the two puppets Astra and Lilt

Sumayya Si-Tabyeb, BSL Interpreter, seen from behind, her golden skirt glowing in the stage lights

Puppets Lilt, in a hooded cloak, Astra, with shaven head, and Muzi the shepherd, held by Raven Kaliana, Sara Guedes and Gun Suen

Outreach Officer Umit Ozturk and Access Consultant Hannah Thompson

Access Consultant Troi Lee of Deaf Rave and Dramaturg Hassan Mahamdallie, sitting in front of a pink curtain in the Ironworks Studios foyer

Shadow puppets of Clay Odinson, a tall man with a domineering pose, and Peat Orson, a young man with an Afro, cut short at the sides.

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