Christchurch Arts Festival: The History of Different Light

Founded here in Christchurch in 2004, Different Light Theatre brings together the talents and stories of an ensemble of performers with intellectual disabilities.

In The History of Different Light six actors present their own experiences with the company using memories, images, objects, lost properties, forgotten words and wheelchairs flying over the disabled city to show the gaps between worlds and gaps between people. And what a history there is to be shared!

A Different Light has performed in Sydney, Melbourne, San José, California, Leeds and New Zealand. Their performances have been written about in numerous books and academic journals and previous shows include The Poor Dears, Still Lives, A Different Light Wizard of Oz, The Three Ecologies of Different Light, and I belong in the past, and the future, and the very now…

Honest, remarkable and inspiring, join this wonderful cast as they "come out of the past and turn their backs on the present to fly over the city in which we disappear."