Echoes project

Echoes is a creative participatory project celebrating 50 years of Chickenshed, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, and will provide an opportunity to capture and preserve Chickenshed’s heritage from members of Chickenshed’s community past and present for future generations to come.

1974-1984

A letter-writing exchange between original Chickenshed members and young people involved in Chickenshed today!

An intergenerational project to discuss what is new, what has changed and what is still the same fifty years later.

1984-1994

Celebrating Enfield as the home and long-term supporter of Chickenshed.

We are creating a movable exhibition, starting at Chickenshed and travelling through the borough, showing the history of our building and how Enfield supported us to be in the place we are today.

1994-2004

At the beginning of the 1990s, Chickenshed put on a production of Anansi at the Royal Albert Hall, connecting schools from every London borough. This event pioneered Chickenshed’s inclusive education programmes, which we know today.

We'll be celebrating this by creating an interactive education pack, which we will be sending out to schools we work with in Enfield and reconnecting with some of the schools that were part of the Anansi project in the 90s.

2004-2014

A vote for this year’s Christmas show!

We had an open vote within our community to select this year's Christmas show, allowing participants to choose from our past shows spanning various decades. We will soon announce the results of the vote.

2014-2024

In response to a real-life event in the early 2000s, Chickenshed created the show Crime of the Century. Crime of the Century is still performed and toured today.

Reconnecting with the original cast members and creatives from this production, Decade 5 will explore Chickenshed’s methods of making theatre from the lived experience of its participants.