Transient Boarders is an interactive performance installation and live verbatim theatre archive, exploring the forgotten narratives of displaced Londoners relocated out of London, living in temporary accommodation as hotel boarders in cities around the UK.

Weaving together both their personal testimonies with archive footage and historic legislation, threading the affects of Olympic regeneration, soaring rents and social cleansing, audiences encounter through intimate multi-sensory experiences the lives of the dispossessed.

But all is not lost; amid the dread and fear, constant moving and sleepless nights in cheap beds, Sebastian unpacks their baggage - past, present and future - out of the suitcases of former lives, revealing painful home truths and memories of happier times.

Transient Boarders has been developed in residency as part of Starting Blocks 2018 at Camden People's Theatre with support from Arts Council England and DRIFT residency 2018 hosted by ZU UK as part of MA Contemporary Performance Practices at the Institute for Performing Arts Development at School of Arts and Digital Industries at University of East London.

Transient Boarders forms part of my two year practice-as-research entitled RE:Generation Games: the role of live art, artists and artist-led spaces play in gentrification, artwashing, social cleansing and urban redevelopment.

This project couldn't have happened without the very generous support and invaluable work of the Focus E15 campaign group and their members, whom very kindly allowed me to interview them towards the making of this show. You can support and follow them at: https://focuse15.org/ and @FocusE15

The performance is still in very early stages but I would really love to have your feedback, thoughts and responses to the piece so it can develop further into 2018 and beyond.

Follow my process via social media on @SebastnHW #TransientBoarders

For further info about each event and participating artists and residencies, please click here: https://mailchi.mp/149a32f482e1/transient-boarders-theatre-march-2018-sebastian-h-w