For several years now award-winning Bradford-based Common Wealth have been making innovative, groundbreaking site-specific theatre that addresses pressing contemporary concerns.
Fast, Fast, Slow, which comes to Bradford this weekend, focusses on our complex relationship with fashion, fast fashion and waste. Every show the company makes is a collaboration and for this one they have been working with people in Blackburn and Burnley in East Lancashire, an area which was once a powerhouse for a now almost disappeared textile industry, and with the Revival in Accra, Ghana, a community-led sustainable design and campaigning organisation.
“We all have a connection to clothes and in the Global North our relationship to fashion is so wrapped up in a relentless hunger for more, driven by clever marketing that always makes us feel like we are less.” As part of the research for the show, Manning and the creative team went to Accra in Ghana. The country is the world’s biggest importer of second-hand clothes and Accra has the largest second-hand clothing market in West Africa.
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