Hannah Eugénie Tookey Creative Producer & Fundraiser | The Learning Lottery
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Hannah Eugénie Tookey Creative Producer & Fundraiser / The Learning Lottery
An illustration shows rows of school children sat at exam desks with red buzzers at their fingertips. The backs of their chairs display candidate numbers and brightly coloured tiles cover the floor. They stare up at a giant game show wheel with a stack of books at its centre. An enthusiastic performer wears a red jumper underneath bright yellow overalls. She clutches a clipboard to her chest and smiles at the audience. Other audience members can be seen sat behind her, slightly blurred from view. A colourfully dressed performer bends down and eggs on an audience member who is trying to remove a block from a Jenga tower.

The Learning Lottery

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Step into the black lace-ups of UK teenagers and attempt one simple goal: do well at school. The teens are eager and the education system professes “to provide world-class education… for everyone, whatever their background” (DfE, 2020), so what could possibly go wrong?

 

Created from research, The Learning Lottery scrutinises the narrative that the UK is a functioning meritocracy. It asks audiences to confront our relationship with a system that insists on its investment in equality, and yet strangely, somehow, always recreates uncannily similar stories of winners and losers.

 

Which numbers will you draw?

 

Originally commissioned by Upstart Theatre for DARE Festival 5, 2021. The Learning Lottery is created by Katurah Morrish and Upstart Theatre and produced by Upstart Theatre with the support of the Albany Theatre’s Artist in Residence programme.

 

Offie Nomination for IDEA Production: Immersive Theatre
★★★★ Broadway World

 

Performances
11-12 February 2023, VAULT Festival, London

 

Creative Team
Writer & Performer: Katurah Morrish
Director & Performer: Tom Mansfield
Producer: Hannah Tookey for Upstart Theatre

Category

Theatre