10-26 May
Become a FriendJavaad Alipoor
Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran
Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2020 has been cancelled
It is with regret that we have taken the very difficult but ultimately inevitable decision to cancel the 2020 Norfolk & Norwich Festival.
With the rapidly escalating health-crisis and with the safety of our audiences, staff and artists at heart, we have taken the decision that it is impossible for us to deliver the Festival this May.
If you have booked a ticket for the Festival, you do not need to do anything. You are entitled to a refund and we will be in touch soon. Please bear with us during this difficult time. If you have the capacity to make a donation of part or all of your ticket value, we would be extremely grateful – it would help ensure we’re well-placed to support artists and be able to present future Festivals.
In 2015 Robert Mugabe’s son, Chatunga, filmed himself pouring a £200 bottle of champagne over the £45,000 watch his father bought him, tagging it on Instagram as #daddyrunsthewholecountry. At the height of the sanctions on Iran, with the middle and working classes choked, Mohammad Hossien Rabbani-Shirazi, the son of a prominent Ayatollah and the grandson of a revolutionary hero, smashed his yellow Porsche Boxer into a kerb at 120 miles per hour killing himself and his girlfriend. His Instagram account went viral: pictures of him drinking and partying at nightclubs in Dubai, Antalya and West London. The gap between the rich and poor is getting bigger and bigger around the world. Social media feeds and accelerates this ever-widening divide. In the global south we see the children of elites and post-colonial dictatorships, flashing cash, dollar signs, Bollinger and infinity pool holidays while people suffer under sanctions and dictatorships.
Rich Kids is a play about entitlement and consumption, about how digital technology is complicit in social apartheid and gentrification, and the human problem of what successful and brutal people do with their coddled and useless children. It’s the sequel to the award-winning The Believers Are But Brothers, and the second part of a trilogy of plays about how digital technology, resentment and fracturing identity is changing the world.
★★★★ ‘Dazzling, discombobulating and alarming.’ The Guardian
The Scotsman Fringe First Winner
Important information
Age guidance: 14+
Content warning: Performance contains strong language and loud sound effects.
Duration: 1 hour
Strictly no latecomers.
Audiences will be asked to connect to the show on Instagram, this is encouraged but not obligatory.
Tickets
18-25 & Under 18 tickets: £7.50
Essential companions: Any audience member requiring an essential carer/companion can get one free ticket. Relevant discounts or concessions still apply to the paid ticket.
Concessions: D/deaf or disabled, Full-time students, Over 60s, Go 4Less cardholders, Jobseekers, Under 18s 10% off tickets within certain price bands
Multi-Buy Offer:
Book 3 or more events and receive 10% off each ticket
Book 5 or more events and receive 15% off each ticket
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Only valid on tickets priced £10 or more.
HOME In association with Traverse Theatre Company
Co-commissioned by Diverse Actions, Theatre in the Mill, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Batersea Arts Centre and Bush Theatre