Choosing Children

A Thought-Provoking Experience

Choosing Children is a dramatic and interactive live spectacle for an intimate audience. It asks audiences to explore one of the most challenging dilemmas of our time: To what extent should new reproductive technologies impact the type of children we have in the future? And, what might this do for the life chances of the next generation of disabled people? 

WHEN WE CAN ALTER A CHILD BEFORE THEY ARE BORN WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO ALTER THE CHILD? OR THE WORLD THEY COME INTO?

Explicitly developed for Blackbox Spaces, Choosing Children is an ‘other worldly’ theatrical experience that questions what we value most about the human condition.

Through the use of digital projection and avatars, audiences will experience a transformative narrative, taking them from the birth of the universe to the development of genetic engineering, at which point they will be asked to assume the role of an expectant parent. In this role, audiences will explore the positives and negatives of using genetic engineering on unborn children. The work looks to explore what can be achieved with this technology and the moral implications of using it, by asking the audience to consider a series of critical dilemmas, in which their answers will affect the very nature of the environment they are in through interactive digital technology that is intuitively linked to the set design.?

Innovative Digital Access: A Creative Case for Diversity

Choosing Children aims to be fully accessible and inclusive. Audiences can request British Sign Language, Audio Description, and/or Captioning in every performance through an integrated Access System.

Programmers Pack

Request a programmers pack by emailing info@benfredericks.co.uk

Showcased at

Attenborough Arts Centre – Leicester
Mansfield Old Library
Lincoln Arts Centre, Lincoln
Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton
Lakeside Arts, Nottingham

With Special Thanks to

John Kirby
Chiara Batini
Noemi Nicole Piga

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