Green Shoots

York Theatre Royal/Beanstalk Written and performed by Paul Birch with Mark Gowland/Privileged to share the stage with Badapple Theatre, Alice Boddy, Bolshee, Sam Bond, Kate Bramley, Emily Chattle, Sam Conway, Hannah Davies, Hayley Del Harrison, Joe Douglass, Joe Feeney, Georgie Firth, Fladam, Kitty Greenbrown, Gus Gowland, Esther Irving, Josh Liew, Butshilo Nleya, Libby Pearson, Ela Portnoy, Robert Powell, Ben Pugh, Dora Rubinstein, Ana Silverio, Carey Simon, Cynthia Wood, Charlotte Wood, Jack Woods, Alexander Wright/ Curated by Juliet Forster/2022

New work commissioned by York Theatre Royal from dozens of professional artists – poets, performers, singers, dancers, digital artists – from York and North Yorkshire premieres in Green Shoots on 7 and 8 June. Green Shoots features new work in a variety of art forms from local professional artists centred around rebooting post-pandemic and looking to the future of the planet.

Beanstalk was written and performed by Paul Birch

For hundreds of years you have been telling the story of Jack and the Beanstalk completely wrong. Beanstalk is the recently discovered true account of the tale told from the Giant’s point of view. Any similarities to any persons now living, lying, or misusing public funds is entirely coincidental…