The Corner Shop 2009 – Autumn 2009

Foursight Theatre will be performing The Corner Shop in October – November 2009 in a disused shop unit in the Mander Shopping Centre in Wolverhampton.

The audience will promenade around the shop while the performance takes place around them. With performers behind the counter and exhibits on the shelves, the whole environment will serve as a battlecry on behalf of the Black Country’s corner shop community and give life to their stories.

For more information on the shows in October Click here and November Click here

We have started The Corner Shop blog , which will offer a glimpse behind the scenes of the transformation process of the site from an empty shop into a local high street environment, and follow the rehearsal process each day in the run-up to opening night. Click here to visit the blog .

The Corner Shop is part of a much larger project in partnership with Sandwell Museum Service, Sandwell Community History and Archive Service, English Heritage and Wolverhampton Arts and Museum Services. The creation of the project was originally supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, English Heritage and the Sir Barry Jackson Trust. The project will include an education strand with a local Wolverhampton school and will be being documented throughout, resulting in a touring exhibition in 2009 – 10.

The new oral history recordings and any artefacts gathered during the creation of the project have been lodged at local and national archives and on the web as an ongoing community and heritage resource. To view the online archive, visit the Connecting Histories website.