Kate McGrath, Director of Fuel has today announced a programme of work for 2022 that encompasses a commitment to work for children and young people as well as work that investigates urgent global questions that face us all.
Following the launch of Fuel Digital, 2022 continues this work with more groundbreaking digital projects. Projects that launched in 2021 and earlier will be revived throughout 2022 to complete an ambitious and inspiring season.
Kate McGrath said: “It’s a new year and a new start for us all. Despite the ongoing challenges of the pandemic, the team at Fuel – including all of the freelancers and partners with whom our work is created – have been working hard to plan an ambitious new programme of work for 2022, which we’re launching today.
This season we invite you to world premieres of new shows asking the big and vital questions of our times, including David Farr and Rachel Bagshaw’s A Dead Body in Taos, and Melly Still and Max Barton’s The Gretchen Question. Powered by a commitment to the nation’s young people accessing the very best in artistic experiences, we’ll be heading right into schools – online with an inventive adaptation of Lewis Gibson’s celebrated The Day I Fell Into A Book, and in playgrounds around the country, with the premiere of Keisha Thompson and Alan Lane’s Issy, BOSSS and Fractal.
Our Fuel Digital programme, launched in 2021, will see new works for streaming and broadcast next year with the world premiere of Hema Palani’s Salt and Sugar, our first animation, Osoyegbon by Gloria Patrick, and a brand new live online performance from Uninvited Guests, To Those Born Later.
And to make sure our work has the widest and deepest impact it can, we’ll continue our commitment to the human rights collaboration, Fly The Flag, as well as remounting and touring Inua Ellams’ An Evening with an Immigrant and The Midnight Run, Heather Agyepong’s The Body Remembers and Common Wealth and Speakers Corner’s Peaceophobia. We know we may need to adapt our plans with agility and care and we’re ready for that. Wherever you are, we hope you’ll join us for some adventures together this year.”
