HOME to Present THE BEANFIELD

HOME presents The Beanfield, theatre company Breach's critically acclaimed debut production, a big hit at last year's Edinburgh Festival and winner of the Total Theatre (Best Emerging Company) Award at the festival, as part of its spring 2016 season.

It's been just over 30 years since the 1985 Battle of the Beanfield - a brutal crackdown on the annual Stonehenge Free Festival. Called away from policing the miners' strike, officers enforced an injunction around the ancient stones with bloody violence and mass arrests.

Determined to mark the anniversary, Breach set out to stage a historical re- enactment - armed with homemade riot gear, a map of Wiltshire, and a video camera.

In The Beanfield, this footage is intercut with a live performance attempting to capture the 2015 summer solstice at Stonehenge: there's hot dog stands, Hare Krishnas, and MDMA, as a group of young people try to connect - but it all feels a bit fake.

Blending documentary footage with new writing, the six-strong Breach company - some of whom were themselves involved in a protest at Warwick University in December 2014 which was controversially disrupted by the police, an event which forms part of the basis and some of the material for the show - presents a multimedia show about state violence and national heritage.

Tickets for The Beanfield at HOME are on sale now at http://homemcr.org/production/the-beanfield/

PERFORMANCE CALENDAR

Thursday 31 March 20:00 Friday 1 April 20:00 Saturday 2 April 14:00 Saturday 2 April 20:00

TICKETS

£12 (concessions available).