OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD: INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION COMES TO SURREY FOR THE FIRST TIME
Of All the People in All the World – the internationally acclaimed performance installation by leading theatre company Stan’s Cafe – is coming to Farnham Maltings this summer. Significantly, it will be the first opportunity to experience this fascinating work in Surrey, following its worldwide tour from Birmingham to Buenos Aires, Leeds to Los Angeles, Truro to Tokyo and more.
“You learn more in five minutes in this show than reading the whole of the New York Times.” Lou Reed
Of All the People in All the World imagines human population statistics in extraordinary landscapes of rice. With one person represented by one grain of rice – and with performers continually developing the installation – the statistics realised in labelled piles of rice can include populations of towns and cities, the number of doctors, the number of people born each day and more.
Always changing and never static, audiences also have an opportunity to shape the installation – which will be created in the Farnham Maltings Great Hall – by suggesting statistics they would like to see ‘in rice’. Over the years it has been touring the world, requests have included the number of people who have swum the English Channel, the capacities of the world’s most famous stadiums and the number of people who queued to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II during her lying-in-state.
Beautifully simple yet hugely powerful, the statistics and their juxtapositions are also thought provoking: for example, the world’s billionaires seen alongside the number of people living in refugee camps, the number of Africans forcibly taken and enslaved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the number of people who died in the Holocaust.
Peter Glanville, CEO, Farnham Maltings, said:“We are delighted to host ‘Of All The People…’ at Farnham Maltings. It feels amazing that this show, born in Birmingham, having been to Cairo, Buenos Aires, Adelaide, and Los Angeles to name a few, can be enjoyed here in Surrey. This is a unique opportunity to enjoy a highly acclaimed, truly international piece of work – free to enter – that has impacted people across the planet.”
James Yarker, Artistic Director, Stan’s Cafe, said:“We can’t wait to get to Farnham Maltings. We’re keen to learn about the town, to meet people and explore what the place is all about. The plan is to combine all this with what’s going on in the wider world at the moment and come up with a unique version of the show especially for you.”
Of All the People in All the World takes place in the Great Hall at Farnham Maltings between 11 and 15 July. Audiences are invited to pay what they can. For further information: farnhammaltings.com
The rice used in this performance is sponsored by Tilda and will return with Stan’s Cafe ready for future performances.
