I co-created News News News with artist Andy Field - a participatory, experimental theatre show, made in collaboration with a group of local primary school children.

The project has been created and presented in Cambridge with Cambridge Junction and Ridgefield Primary School, and in Norwich with Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Norwich Primary Academy.

Future versions of the project are planned for Manchester, Bedford, and Oxford.

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. Working with artists Andy Field and Beckie Darlington, local primary school children will present bulletins from the city, offering a distinctive look at what’s going on right here and right now.

At a time when there is more news than there has ever been and yet our trust in journalists is at an all-time low, what is the purpose of news and how does it shape the way we see the world around us? And how might children teach us to look again at the places we live and the stories that we tell about them?

Originally commissioned by Cambridge Junction and Norfolk & Norwich Festival. Supported by Arts Council England, the Stobbs New Ideas Fund and a Cambridge City Council Public Art Grant.

Photo: Jemima Yong