The End of History

St Giles-in-the-Fields Church, 60 St Giles High Street, London
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This event ended on Saturday 23rd of June 2018
Admission
£16.50 standard, £14 concessions
Location

St Giles-in-the-Fields Church, 60 St Giles High Street, London

Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
Tottenham Court Road 0.13 miles

She'd seen him before;
pink shirt, dark hair, grey suit… jaw.
Oh yes, she'd seen him before.
He couldn't quite place her face.

What happens when two totally different Londoners find themselves face to face on the worst day of their lives?

Paul is a gay party boy working in property, Wendy is a single, 50 year-old working in the charity sector. They belong to two different London's but have one thing in common; they're both alone in the city.

Staged off-site at St Giles in-the-Fields church in Soho, this specially-created play with music, by High Hearted Theatre in association with Soho Theatre, takes a chance encounter to explore the impact of gentrification on two totally different individuals.

St Giles-in-the-Fields has long been a place of refuge to outsiders, a historic place of worship since Saxon times, synonymous with Hogarth's slums and the plague. It now sits in the centre of a mas-sive redevelopment project including Crossrail, Central St Giles Piazza and Centrepoint. The End of History draws on both St Giles' historical past and its precarious present as it explores modern po-litical and class divisions, both real and imagined.

The play was a response to an invitation from St Giles' Rector Alan Carr who was keen to explore the impact of gentrification in the area, a neighbourhood which has always been in a state of flux. Carr says: "I think that drama and writing is sometimes the best way to try and understand what is happening…sometimes going back into past events can enable us to see clearly what matters, what is perhaps being lost, and what is being altered in a very subtle way."

High Hearted Theatre's director Gemma Kerr and writer Marcelo Dos Santos, whose productions are embedded in places and unconventional theatre spaces, add: "It was the perfect combination which allowed us to respond to the physical architecture but also the history, stories and culture of such a beautiful space."

This is High Hearted's fifth production and follows pieces commissioned by Liverpool Everyman and the critically-acclaimed Lover's Walk.

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