EDUCATION EDUCATION KARAOKE
CO-CREATOR (DESIGN + TECHNOLOGY)
STARTING BLOCKS SHOWCASE, CAMDEN PEOPLE’S THEATRE, JULY 2021
A choose-your-own adventure, with a different performer every night. With lines fed to them via a karaoke machine, the performer makes their way through the years using a dance mat to select stories, and occasionally to have a bit of a boogie.
Education, Education, Karaoke is the story of the last 20 years of the British education system and the pop bangers that came to define it. From Tony Blair to Cher Lloyd, we take a romp through how one speech in 1997 lead to the British education system becoming one of the most unequal in the world, and how karaoke might be the answer to level the playing field. A combination of verbatim interviews and karaoke, we track the way working-class kids were told to aspire to something the establishment never wanted them to have.
The Team
Writer / Creator: Thomas Ryalls
Director: Scott Le Crass
Producer: Reece McMahon
Performer: Kate Butch
Designer / Technologist: Timothy Kelly
