David here. There's a flurry of excitement in the Boho camp this week, because we're about to get on the plane and head over to the UK for the next three months.As some of you may know, Boho was in residence at the University College London Environment Institute in 2012, developing our systems science tabletop board-game / theatre show Best Festival Ever: How To Manage A Disaster. The show was created in partnership with a lot of great UK artists and organisations, so it's a huge pleasure to announce that we're launching the first full production of Best Festival Ever this November at the London Science Museum.There's some background on the Best Festival Ever project here if you'd like to know more about the show.
David Finnigan and David Shaw from Boho will once again be joined by Nathan Harrison, Nikki Kennedy and Rachel Roberts from Applespiel, and we'll be working with UK theatre artists including Tassos Stevens (Coney) and designer Gary Campbell.We'll be in residence at the Science Museum from mid-September until the end of November, refining and rehearsing the finished show. Public performances will kick off with a short scratch season at the Battersea Arts Centre at the end of October, followed by a two week season at the Science Museum's Dana Centre from 10-24 November. We'll be presenting a series of evening performances at the Centre alongside short talks by climate scientists in response to the work.Finally, we'll be taking off to Sweden at the end of November for a week-long tour to the Stockholm Resilience Centre. We'll be sharing our take on Systems and Resilience Thinking back to some of the scientists who first formulated these ideas, and whose work we've been drawing on over the last three years - as you can imagine, we're excited and also fairly intimidated!We'll be keeping track of our progress on this blog, so please keep an eye out if you're interested.If you'd like to chat with us about Best Festival Ever, please get in touch! If you're interested in our presenting the show at your venue or workplace, if you'd like us to create a new game around a system of your choosing, or even if you're just curious, we'd love to hear from you.DATES30 Oct - 1 Nov - Battersea Arts Centre scratch season10 - 24 Nov - London Science Museum season25 - 29 Nov - Stockholm Resilience Centre season