Mortal Fools’ Ensemble Young Company are BACK with a brand-new show - their first live performance since 2019!

Devised and performed by young people from all over Northumberland, Flux is a contemporary, dynamic and poignant piece of theatre; showcasing an original soundtrack, bold set design, and the incredible talent and insights of young people.

Binary breakers, stereotype smashers, convention clingers, people pleasers, distracted dreamers, ally activists, hopeful homebodies, evolving explorers, GOAT gamers, fashionable friends, Tik-Toking trendsetters, simping stans, radical rebels, the woke, the weird….

Universally unique and all welcome here. You are one of us. We see you. Join us?

"LIKE A VISUAL PINTEREST BOARD ON STAGE"

 - Ensemble Member

Flux explores the fluid nature of personal identity. How you’re perceived by different people. The masks we all wear. The influence society, friends and parents have on us. The labels and stereotypes we collect and apply to others. How you know who you are…..when you don’t actually know who you are!

Flux is contemporary, high energy, and features an original soundtrack. The show depicts multiple perspectives and stories, with the cast members playing a range of characters - including versions of themselves, peers, parents, and teachers.

Flux is positive and empowering experience, grounded in the reality of life for young people.
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Performance Information

• Tickets: £6 (25yrs+) // £4 (Under 25s & concessions)
• Running Time: approx 70 minutes (no interval).​
• Flux is suitable for ages 11+.
• All performances are relaxed performances - you can leave at any point. 
• Seating is unreserved. 
• Team Mortal Fools will welcome you into the performance space. It will be obvious when the performance starts and when it ends.
• There are 13 members in the Flux cast, so you will see 13 people on stage.
• Flux has a soundtrack and there will be music during the show. There will also be some lighting effects - including different lighting states, flashing lights, and a few short blackouts. There will be no strobe lighting.
• The script is available to download here.

For any questions about Flux - including venue information, accessibility questions, requests for free carers tickets, or to let us know you’re a wheelchair or walking aid user – drop Rachel.Horton@mortalfools.org.uk an email.

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Monday 11th April 2022
7pm (doors open at 6:45pm)
​YMCA Northumberland, North View, Ashington, NE63 9XQ
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Venue is step-free, has a disabled/gender-neutral toilet and a small on-site car park.

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Wednesday 13th April 2022
7pm (doors open at 6:45pm)
Gosforth Civic Theatre, Regent Farm Road, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 3HD
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​BSL interpreted. Venue is step-free, has a disabled/gender-neutral toilet and a small on-site car park (including two blue badge parking spaces).

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DOWNLOAD THE DIGITAL FLYER HERE

THE MAKING OF ​FLUX

Our Ensemble Young Company have been working on Flux since Autumn 2021.

​They used the I Weigh script from 2018 as their starting point. However, Flux is an entirely different show, with a different feel, different characters and different focus.

​The group have been working with professional artists and theatre makers in across the co-creation process to craft this wonderful production!

​Themes explored in Flux and during the co-creation process include:

• Evolution of identity.
• Self-identifying vs how others perceive you.
• Labels and stereotyping.
• Being worried about what other people think about you.
• Masking and conforming.
• Pressure from society, school, parents and peers.
• Expressing yourself through fashion, music, art, words, actions etc.
• Celebrating individualism.
• Low self-esteem and confidence.

ABOUT MORTAL FOOLS ENSEMBLE YOUNG COMPANY

Ensemble Young Company is our dedicated youth theatre group for people aged 14-19 (School Years 10+). Ensemble members work together over a prolonged time period to devise a new piece of theatre (in this case, Flux), which we then tour to our partners in the Young People’s Co-Creation Exchange Network. The new iteration of our Ensemble Young Company features young people from both Tyne Valley and Ashington.

Mortal Fools are the ONLY theatre company in the North-East touring youth theatre and co-creating with young people in the way that we do. We treat this work as professional theatre; presenting it in professional theatre venues, to paying public audiences. ​Members also have an opportunity to take part in other small-scale projects throughout the year, as well as work experience opportunities and peer-facilitation roles.
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For more information on Ensemble Young Company, visit the project page.