WCT begins a new theatre production on the theme of HOME

16 Oct 2024

Is Home where the heart is? Is there no place like it? What does home feel like? Where is it, in your heart or under your roof?                                                         Is it a place or a feeling?  What special things will you always take with you when you leave home? 

If you would like to share your thoughts about what Home means to you, please complete a Survey here.

Here is a summary of other people’s thoughts about Home.

WCT members have begun exploring ideas about the concept of Home and what Home means for people living in the Wimborne area.  We began by completing a questionnaire about our ideas of Home.  Following this, members brought along a precious object and told its story and why they would always keep it safe throughout their lives, wherever they lived.

If you would like to get involved, please email: info@wimbornecommunitytheatre.co.uk

Context for the Project:                                                                                               Wimborne is situated in an ancient landscape, once home to the Celtic tribe, the Durotriges, and the nuns of St Cuthburga, in the town centre, close to the ancient homes of Deans Court and Kingston Lacy, and the hill fort at Badbury.

Around the world, as always, we know how people suffer displacement or eviction according to the situation in their country.  Here in Wimborne the population of the town is expanding, sometimes older properties are demolished and new home developments are completed.

It’s timely we ask ourselves: What does home feel like? What’s it like for someone to move to a new house/town?  How do they begin to feel a sense of being ‘at home’?

Community Theatre is a part of an international movement creating theatre within particular places, involving local people in sharing experiences and stories about the places they live.

Photo of Barbara Hart's doll's house, which she played with as a child and which her granddaughter now plays with. Photo by Haydn Wheeler,  of his family house being demolished in Cuthbury Close, Wimborne