Theatre / Adam Kammerling
Adam Kammerling presents ‘Seder’: a ‘dynamic non-linear storytelling experience’
Adam Kammerling is an award-winning poet and spoken word artist, MC, theatremaker and educator.
He is also the founder and lead of Nest, which works in conjunction with The Fostering Network to deliver UK-wide creative arts support for care-experienced young people in the Mockingbird Programme.
In the spring of 2026, he is touring his ambitious interdisciplinary performance piece Seder, which is a decade in the making. It will arrive at Tobacco Factory Theatres on January 27 – Holocaust Memorial Day, for the first of two consecutive nights.
Adam Kammerling, Seder, 2019 poetry collection – photo: @out_spoken_press
Such timing is apposite. Kammerling’s grandfather was a kinder transport evacuee, and the piece was developed, he explains, “to explore intergenerational trauma and the ways in which we can process grief communally”.
The show was initially conceived in 2016, turned into a poetry collection three years later, and then becoming an online collaboration between artists during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020.
Participatory projects with elderly and isolated communities have been conducted over the phone; and collaborations undertaken with Accumulate, the Art School for the Homeless, as well as Southbank Centre and Gecko Theatre, among others.
Seder has also been presented at Wrexham Holocaust Memorial Day events, and performed as a socially distanced doorstep tour. Now, it comes to fruition as a full theatre show, blending physical theatre, dance, spoken word, and a live score of harp, drums and distorted guitar music. Alongside Kammerling as lead artist, will be dancers Si Rawlinson and Elisabeth Mulenga, and musicians Antosh Wojcik and Marysia Osu.
“Anchored by the Jewish ritual of the Seder, this dynamic piece of live-scored physical theatre demands a new consideration of our survival stories”, Kammerling writes.
“Developed in response to the recent war crimes in Gaza and the ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people, this show, unable to tour in 2024 due to safety concerns, demands a renewed relationship with the loyalties we hold in grief.”
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Seder is at Tobacco Factory Theatres on January 27-28 at 7.30pm. Tickets are available at www.tobaccofactorytheatres.com.
Main photo: Tobacco Factory Theatres
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