Rhiannon Faith has built her own pub. Or her set builders have. Installed inside a theatre, this is where she is going to stage her new show. “It’ll probably go in my mum and dad’s back garden when we’re finished,” she smiles. As pubs often are, this one will be the setting for people to confess their secrets, and a place where a lonely person can find some solace.
Faith makes dance-theatre with a social conscience that peers into everyday lives, often those on the margins. Her last work Drowntown (which has just toured to China) was about poverty and isolation, and built on interviews with people in deprived English coastal towns. In 2018, Smack That (a Conversation) told stories of domestic abuse, set at a party with popcorn and pass-the-parcel. Her previous work has dealt with mental health, including Faith’s own.
