Created by Amit Lahav

Collaborating with
Designer: Rhys Jarman
Lighting: Joe Hornsby
Sound: Jonathan Everett
With original music by Dave Price
Associate Director: Rich Rusk
Costume Supervisor: Gayle Playford (original production) / Becky-Dee Trevenen (2019)

Devising Performers:
Madeleine Fairminer, Vanessa Guevara Flores, Saju Hari, Wai Shan Vivian Luk, Mario Patrón, Ryen Perkins-Gangnes, Uroš Petronijević, Miguel Hernando Torres Umba, and Kenny Wing Tao Ho.

Previous Devising Performers:
Lucia Chocarro, Greig Cooke (during creation), Fionn Cox-Davies, Chris Evans, Anna Finkel, Katie Lusby, Louise Tanoto and Dan Watson.

Producer: Rosalind Wynn
Company Stage Manager: Leah Butterworth, Alyssa
Watts
Technical Stage Manager: Jake
Channon, Djordje Jovanović
Sound Operator: Sharon Tsang
Production Electrician: Hector Murray

Musicians and Vocalists:
Tom Allan, Sam Burgess, Ben Hales, Frank Moon, Dave Shulman, Jon Thomas, Temesgen Zeleke

Photography by Rocio Chacon

For each of our current touring shows we have created a Sound World Information Sheet to enable D/deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audience members to understand the soundscape of each show and how it feeds into the other elements of our performances. Please read the information in advance of attending the show. Where possible we offer a BSL interpreted post show discussion in collaboration with our venue partners.

Click here to download the Sound World of The Wedding (PDF)

“There’s a terrific ensemble at work in a show that bursts with the joy of union.” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

“Heart pounding drama… get ready to be blown away.” ★★★★ The Reviews Hub

“Offers its own remarkable, mesmerising take on the world we live in, full of horror and hope, fortitude and fear, love and lamentation and is an amazing achievement.” ★★★★ Attitude

“The combination of spellbinding music, mesmerising dance moves and narratives in languages from all over the world, make it a truly entertaining and thought-provoking experience, no matter what message you take from it.” Mancunian Matters

“A gripping eighty minutes of visceral physical theatre that will leave your heart pounding and you ready to start a revolution. It’s absolutely not to be missed.” North West End

We were awarded Strategic Touring funding from Arts Council England to support the spring 2018 tour of The Wedding. Working with each of the venues as well as local changemakers and national organisations, we developed an ambitious audience development project, allowing more people than ever to participate and engage with Gecko’s work. Exploring inclusivity, the power of community, and encouraging ideas around social cohesion and change. The project included:

Panel Discussions

Gecko hosted a post show panel discussion at each venue that explored two key themes from the show – integration and social cohesion, and affecting change in the community – which gave audiences the opportunity to share their thoughts and questions with the team. The panel included Gecko’s artistic director Amit Lahav along with guests with experience of these issues.

Outreach Residencies

As part of our spring 2018 tour, we brought together diverse groups of young people from both local and migrant/refugee communities at each touring destination. This provided the groups the opportunity to take part in a two and a half day project led by Gecko practitioners, with the aim of creating a short piece of work in Gecko’s trademark style. This was completely open to everybody; no prior performing experience was required, and English language proficiency was not a barrier to their taking part.

“It increased my confidence within a workshop environment, and increased my passion for physical theatre.”
- Participant in Nottingham Playhouse outreach residency 2017

Workshop: Making Change

In addition to the panel discussions, we ran free 3-hour workshops called Making Change at each tour venue, which were open to the public and offered an open space to meet other people and explore themes from Gecko’s show as well as ideas that emerged from the group on the day.

Have you ever felt out of line with the way the world is going?
Would you like to see change in yourself, your community, your country, beyond?

Gecko teamed up with the Transition Network, a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world, to link into each town or city that we’re touring to.

“I really needed this - it’s such a treat to work with great practitioners in a safe and playful environment.”
- Bristol Making Change participant

2022
Barbican Centre, London, UK
Storyhouse, Chester, UK

2021
Mercury Theatre, Colchester, UK
Lighthouse, Poole, UK
Nottingham Playhouse, UK

2019
Maribor Theatre Festival, Maribor, Slovenia
Stadsschouwburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
Busan International Performing Arts Festival, Busan, South Korea
Barbican Theatre (London International Mime Festival), London, UK

2018
MODAFE (International Modern Dance Festival), Seoul, South Korea
NST Campus, UK
Oxford Playhouse, UK
CAST, Doncaster, UK
Liverpool Playhouse, UK
Derby Theatre, UK
Nottingham Playhouse, UK
Watford Palace Theatre, UK
Bristol Old Vic, UK

2017
Hall for Cornwall, UK
Lighthouse, Poole, UK
Exeter Northcott, UK
HOME, Manchester, UK
Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, UK
Northern Stage, Newcastle, UK