


Conceived, written and performed by
Fehinti Balogun
Director
Daniel Bailey
Co-Director
Simon McBurney
Writer
Fehinti Balogun
Dramaturg
Kirsty Housley
Producer
Tim Bell
Director of Photography
Stewart Kyasimire, Create Anything
Editor
Ash J Woodward
Music Director and Composer
Khalil Madovi
Movement Director
Dickson Mbi
Scenography and Costume Design
Rajha Shakiry
Lighting Designer
Azusa Ono
Sound Designer
Mike Winship
Projection, Animation and Visual Effects
Ash J Woodward
Production Dramatherapist
Wabriya King
Camera Operator
Donald Matheson, Create Anything
Music written by
Fehinti Balogun, Khalil Madovi, Chloe Rianna and Josh Sneesby
Lyrics by
Fehinti Balogun
Cast
Featuring Fehinti Balogun, supported by Bunmi Adedeji, Chloe Rianna, Dickson Mbi, Ellen Thomas, Khalil Madovi, Kwami Odoom, Terell Farrell, with Samia Alexandra, Nick Anim, Sara Callaway, Helen Brewer, Joshua Virasami
Can I Live? toured online in the Autumn of 2021 and was available to watch from anywhere in the world.
Why don't we talk about it? Fehinti Balogun asks this urgent question and offers an invitation in Can I Live?, a vital new digital performance about the climate catastrophe, sharing his personal journey into the biggest challenge of our times. Weaving his story with spoken word, rap, theatre, animation and the scientific facts, Fehinti charts a course through the fundamental issues underpinning the emergency, identifying the intimate relationship between the environmental crisis & the global struggle for social justice, and sharing how, as a young Black British man, he has found his place in the climate movement.
In the face of a sense of helplessness about the climate catastrophe, Can I Live? is an outstretched hand, inviting audiences to recognise they are not alone - and that through understanding the issues and connecting with the many powerful activists around the globe driving change, we can find a sense of hope for the future.
A Complicité production in association with the Barbican, London, supported by Oxford Playhouse
Supported by Arts Council England and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Running Time: 60 mins | Suitable for ages 12+
Trigger warnings: contains some flashing images, some strong language, explores themes of racism, classism and describes some violence.
Captions and Audio Description (by VocalEyes) available.
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Tour
2022
ONLINE panel discussion at Creative Coalition Festival 2022
3 Feb 2022, 10am-11am GMT
Actor and writer, Fehinti Balogun, will join the panel discussion, chaired by Sir Nicholas Serota and broadcast from the Eden Project at the Creative Coalition Festival 2022. They will be talking about the climate emergency, culture and his journey into the world of activism.
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ONLINE Can I Live? screening Creative Coalition Festival 2022
3 Feb 2022, 5pm GMT
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ONLINE Can I Live? screening at Cascade Festival of African Films 2022
17 Feb 2022, 3am GMT - available for 24 hours
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ONLINE Can I Live? screeing at Civc Square, Birmingham UK
24-26 Feb 2022 - available on demand for free
IN PERSON Can I Live? screening and talk
Sunday 27 Feb 2022
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ONLINE Can I Live? screening at Sydney Opera House
1 March - 30 June 2022 - availableon demand only in Australia and New Zealand
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ONLINE Can I Live? talk at Adelaide Festival
11 March 2022, 2.30 GMT Fehintin in conversation wiht Dwayne Coultard
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ONLINE Can I Live? screening at The Cultch
10-15 May 2022, available online on-demand at The Cultch, Vancouver
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IN PERSON Can I Live? screening at Salisbury Arts Centre
Sunday 12 June, 11.30am, screening and Q&A at Salisbury Arts Centre
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IN PERSON Can I Live? screening at CoCo Collective
Friday 16 September, 6-10pm screening and discussion group with Fehinti Balogun & BPOC landworkers
Ital Community Garden, London SE6 3SE
ONLINE Can I Live? screening, Yorkshire Festival of Story
Wednesday 9th November, 7.00- 8.00pm, free online screening event, part of Yorkshire Festival of Story
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2021, Digital Tour
Oxford Playhouse online
13 - 18 September
Creative Folkestone, Quarterhouse online
20 - 22 September
The World Transformed, online
28 September
Bristol Old Vic online
4 - 10 October
HOME, Manchester online
11 - 17 October
Cambridge Junction online
18 - 24 October
ACCA Brighton
25 - 31 October
Barbican Centre online
1 - 12 November
Theatre Royal Plymouth online
15 - 21 November
Lighthouse, Poole online
22 - 28 November
In-person screenings
Presented by If Not Us Then Who?
1 November
IMAX Glasgow at COP26 official programme
3 November
COP26, Glasgow
Centre for Contemporary Arts
- Figures in Extinction [1.0]
- The Dark is Rising
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
- Can I Live? filmed performance
- The Last of the Pelican Daughters
- I'll Take You to Mrs Cole!
- everything that rises must dance
- Grief is the Thing with Feathers
- The Rake's Progress
- A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer
- Beware of Pity
- The Encounter
- Lionboy
- The Master and Margarita
- The Magic Flute
- A Dog's Heart
- Endgame
- Shun-kin
- A Disappearing Number
- Vanishing Points
- Strange Poetry
- Measure for Measure
- Pet Shop Boys Meet Eisenstein
- The Elephant Vanishes
- Light
- The Noise of Time
- The Vertical Line
- Mnemonic
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle
- To The Wedding
- The Chairs
- Foe
- Out of a house walked a man...
- The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol
- The Winter's Tale
- The Street of Crocodiles
- Help! I'm Alive
- My Army Parts I and II
- The Visit
- Ave Maria
- The Phantom Violin
- Burning Ambition
- Anything For A Quiet Life
- Please, Please, Please
- Food Stuff
- More Bigger Snacks Now
- A Minute Too Late
- Put It On Your Head