The Happiness Project
August - November 2015
“The Happiness Project, a sold-out piece of innovative contemporary theatre at London’s Roundhouse, is weird & messy with bucketloads of passion & a young cast of wonderfully smart, exploring minds.”
Are we looking for happiness in all the wrong places?
A sold out Edinburgh and Roundhouse, London production exploring our understanding of happiness and well-being, devised by a company of young artists, scientists and academics.
“I looked for it on Blackpool beach with my Mum.
I looked for it in a raspberry ripple cheesecake.
I looked for it in detention. I looked for it online.
I looked for it in my gut.
I looked for it but it got complicated.”
Devised in response to reports that raised concerns over young people’s well-being in the UK, The Happiness Project was an intergenerational piece of personal and moving contemporary theatre that journeyed through autobiographical stories set to a musical landscape to explore the human condition.
Directed by Emma Higham and Tashi Gore (Glas(s) Performance), the production was devised by young artists aged 12-19 and six academics who also performed in the show. Through working closely with this group of academics, the production aims to discover a place where scientific research and personal, real life experience meet.
More information, blogs and reviews about the piece can be found here:
http://exposure.org.uk/2015/11/theatre-review-the-happiness-project/
http://www.stagereview.co.uk/theatre-review/the-happiness-project-review/
https://andsoshethinks.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/the-happiness-project-its-a-process/
‘Edinburgh audiences love The Happiness Project.’
