Re:Voice is a participatory theatre performance created as a part of the international academic research Re-voicing cultural landscapes: narratives, perspectives, and performances of marginalised intangible cultural heritage (Re:voice). The piece aims to provide new perspectives on a key research question of the project: How can a better understanding of the interplay between majority and minority in relation to intangible cultural heritage enable us to make European indigenous cultures more visible and resilient? The larger Re:voice project focuses on marginalised cultures across several countries, but the performance being a part of the project’s research in Cornwall focuses on the project’s data from Penwith.

The work draws on the research interviews from Cornwall and was co-written and co co-created with a community choir from Penzance, Tuesday Night Fun Club.
Collected stories and conversations addressing issues of belonging, identity, heritage and the interplay between majority and minority build a narrative delivered through performance, movement, sound and video. The performance was devised, created and rehearsed through a series of workshops involving invited artists, designed to exchange experiences through conversations, play, singing and actions. As the landscape plays a huge part in constructing our identities, the work centred around the main space of the gallery but also takes the audience for a processional walk connecting various gallery rooms and the space outside – allowing the audience to experience the performance not only intellectually and emotionally, but also physically through the journey across the space.
The show is designed to perform seasonally in various spaces, from a gallery to an orchard, from a stage to an outside space.

The show premiered on April 29th, 2023 at Tate St Ives.