
Human Jam
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· Contemporary, Fringe Theatre
How do you excavate 63,000 bodies? Where will they go? And what will be uncovered by all this digging?
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Overview
In St James’ Gardens, right on CPT’s doorstep, the biggest exhumation of graves in European history is taking place. Parks and pubs are closing, too. People are losing their homes and businesses. All to make way for HS2’s new railway terminal.
“We late-lamented, resting here, / Are mixed to human jam”
CPT’s epic new docu-theatre event digs deep into a small but stubborn community, an £80bn infrastructure project – and the ghosts of Euston past.
Critic reviews
The community railroaded by Britain’s high-speed transport project turn their ire into a sparky protest show
Interesting but underdeveloped exercise in documentary theatre that has community at its core
Among the many wonderful qualities of Human Jam is its capacity to inspire care, having been made with such care itself: for humans, for craft, for detail, for the complexity of social interconnection