The Norwich Nine
Back to Creative SchoolsThe Norwich Nine
April – May 2025
A project developed by Bootworks Theatre Co., The Norwich Nine brought together a group of nine-year-old children at The Garage in Norwich to collaborate and create a performance piece for Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2025.
Over the course of a week, Bootworks worked with and listened to their young collaborators. Together, they created a performance, part-theatre, part vox-pops, that explored that unique space, halfway between birth and adulthood, occupied by nine-year-olds.
How often are the perspectives of children considered in our society? Norwich Nine was a project designed to counter the prevailing ‘adultist state’, in which the opinions of our young people are often overlooked. It provided a platform for children to tell it how it is, how it was… and how it could be.
A short film about the performance will be published on our website later in the summer.
Artist
Location
Norwich
Participants
Nine nine-year-olds
Partners
The Garage, Norwich
Masthead/gallery credit: Luke Witcomb