In May and June CARPET Spoken Word will be taking residency in Swansea, working with the support of Volcano Theatre to explore a brand new piece of work funded by Arts Council Wales.

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MURDER PLANT SHOW is a spoken word theatre piece exploring the urgent climate crisis by merging two unlikely topics; botany + our modern culture of on-demand entertainment. With a particular focus on the popularity of crime-documentaries, we want to explore our fascination with death/murder + what might it reveal about our feelings towards a "dying” planet. Understanding that people may be drawn to crime & violence in entertainment as a way of vicariously experiencing it without actually being involved, we see the danger of assuming we can experience climate change vicariously, somehow detaching ourselves from the fate of our planet.

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This will be an experimental collaboration between theatre makers, poets, a botanist + local community members/artists, and some unlikely partners, who like us, are hoping to create change through reverence + absurdism.

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We will also be hosting workshops, drop-ins, open rehearsals and spoken word nights. Our aim is to connect with audiences living and studying in the city, as well as Swansea's incredible creative network.