Spring 2024/ Theatre/ What's On

China Plate and Staatstheater Mainz

Chris Thorpe, A Family Affair, The ShowRoom, Chichester 2024

A Family Business 

Thu 15th Feb | Full £12 | Conc £8 | Age 14+

A show about how not to blow up the planet

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Written and performed by Chris Thorpe
Directed by Claire O’Reilly
Developed with Rachel Chavkin and Lekan Lawal

We don’t really talk about nuclear weapons much.
Even though they accompany us everywhere.
Invisible guests in cafés, on the shelves of supermarkets, in line at the cash machine.
Guests that could destroy all of that and more in a second.

A Family Business is about diplomats, activists, and a journey to change the world. If these weapons could wipe out all our tomorrows, then why aren’t we all talking about them today?

“… the words are eloquent, essential and powerful, and the performance full of a brilliant, prowling precision…” (Status)

Scotsman Fringe First Award Winner 2018

In partnership with Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg. Supported by Warwick Arts Centre and using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

“A Family Business is brilliant. A show which encourages us to be part of the urgent conversation and action for the sake of present and future generations. A show full of hope and humanity”

Véronique Christory, Senior Arms Adviser for the International Committee of the Red Cross at the United Nations
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Image credit: Rebecca Lupton & Ivan Pieri Gonzalez, picture in frame by Ahmed ElHassan

Find out more…

Hear from the artist: A Family Business by Chris Thorpe

The first in a series of three videos – hear from writer and performer Chris Thorpe as he explains what his show A Family Business is about and why we should be talking about nuclear weapons.
The second in a series of three videos – hear from writer and performer Chris Thorpe as he discusses what audiences can expect from coming to see A Family Business and the conversation in the room.
The final in a series of three videos – hear from writer and performer Chris Thorpe as he discusses how A Family Business explores the exciting work of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.