Philoxenia(n); to love strangers, hospitality
What do we need in order to belong?
When does a house become a home?
Is home a place or people?
For one night only, The Neighbourhood Company presents Philoxenia, an original devised performance exploring the question: what does home mean to you?
The Neighbourhood Company is the Bush Theatre’s Community Associate Company for 2018/19. They are a company of 21 local people from the age of 10 to 85 who have been working with Lead Artist Molly Taylor over the past 4 months to create an uplifting, intimate and inviting production, to which everyone is welcome.
The Neighbourhood Project has been running at the Bush Theatre since 2016. This is the first time they have performed in the Bush Theatre.
Jennifer trained at East 15 and is a movement director and actor.
Movement direction includes: Amsterdam (ATC/Orange Tree/ Theatre Royal Plymouth), Pops (Jake Orr Productions), I Wanna Be Yours (Paines Plough/The Bush), Death of a Salesman, Queens of the Coal Age, Our Town (Royal Exchange Theatre), Parliament Square (Bush Theatre/Royal Exchange Theatre),The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (New Vic Theatre), Be My Baby, Around The World in 80 Days (Leeds Playhouse), The Trick (Loose Tongue/Bush Theatre/High Tide), Philoxenia (Bush Theatre), Mountaintop UK Tour (Desara Productions Ltd), Mayfly, Out of Water (Orange Tree), Brighton Rock (Pilot Theatre /The Lowry), I Want To Be Yours, Island Town, Sticks and Stones, How to Spot an Alien (Paines Plough Roundabout), The Mountaintop (Young Vic), Black Mountain, How to be a Kid, Out of Love (Paines Plough & Orange Tree), Death of a Salesman (Royal & Derngate), The Ugly One (The Park), Why The Whales Came (Southbank Centre), Stone Face (Finborough Theatre), Debris (Southwark Playhouse/Openworks Theatre), Macbeth (Passion in Practice/Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), Silent Planet (Finborough), Pericles (Berwaldhallen), The Future (The Yard/Company Three), Other-Please Specify, Atoms (Company Three), Takeover 2017 (Kiln Theatre).
Assistant movement director: Lungs, The Initiate, My Teacher’s a Troll (Paines Plough Roundabout 2014).
Khadija Raza is a set and costume designer, who recently graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, working in theatre, opera and site-specific performances. Her assistant design credits include: Annemarie Woods on L’heure Espagnole and Gianni Schicci (Opera Nationale de Lorraine) and James Cotteril for the British Youth Opera on English Eccentrics and Owen Wingrave (Peacock Theatre). Currently, Khadija is assistant sesigner on The Unknown Island (Gate Theatre) and a finalist for the Linbury Prize.
Molly is a theatre-maker & playwright. Recent projects include; The Keyworkers Cycle (Almeida Theatre), Sweet Silver Song of the Lark (Nordland Teater, Norway), Sinder (Dundee Rep), Me for the World (Young Vic Taking Part). Her plays for young people include; The Wave (Almeida), What Was Left (Southwark Playhouse), Cacophony (Almeida / The Yard). Her play Old Times will be performed at the National Theatre in June 2023, as part of the NT Connections Festival. As a dramaturg & facilitator, she runs writing programmes for young people at the Donmar Warehouse & Lyric Hammersmith.
