“This is the news. This is what’s happening. We have our eyes on the city and our fingers on the pulse. In frightening times we are here to reassure you, through the good news and the bad, a friendly face at the end of the day, a voice in which you can trust. Coming live and uninterrupted from the theatre to an audience of potentially billions.”

News News News is a television news show made by children for adults, recorded in front of a studio audience and broadcast live on the internet. It is created by artists Andy Field and Beckie Darlington in collaboration with ten primary school children from the city where the piece is being presented. Andy and Beckie work with the children for three weeks, helping them to decide what kind of news they want to tell and taking them out into the city to record and present it.

The final performance is a site-specific, interactive theatre show for mid-scale theatres. The audience assist the children in gathering some last-minute news for their show, before watching the show itself being filmed and broadcast from a child-size television news studio on stage.

The piece uses the grammar of news to enable children to share their view of the place where they live; to tell stories about their city, and even their local neighbourhood. At the same time it is a reflection on the value of journalism itself, and on the trust which can feel, in this era of fake news and aggressive partisanship, to have been irreparably eroded.

Created by Andy Field & Beckie Darlington

Graphic design by Will Brady

Music by Tom Parkinson

Dramaturgy by Sibylle Peters

Commissioned by Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Cambridge Junction