One Hundred Trillion

One Hundred Trillion

London Bus. A new, short play written by Lily Bevan in collaboration with those living with dementia, 2019

Lingham Court care home, Southwark Playhouse,
Old Vic Workrooms 2018/19

https://www.thedotcollective.com/one-hundred-trillion

An immersive journey through memory

Four new, short plays written in collaboration with those living with dementia

There are one hundred trillion synapses in the human brain. Signals that form memories and thoughts move through an individual nerve cell as a tiny electrical charge, and those nerve cells connect to one another at synapses. In the lead up to Dementia Action Week 2019, The Dot Collective transformed the Old Vic Workrooms into an immersive world of memory and experience.

Inspired by workshops with dementia groups during Dementia Action Week in 2018, One Hundred Trillion brings to life their characters and stories through promenade short plays. Audiences will be led through the four plays of One Hundred Trillion, set over four different rooms. The Memory Room hosted Frames by Chantelle Dusette, and the Music Room was home to I Could Have Danced All Night by Margaret Perry. Audiences were led to the Allotment, which will host Lucy Grace’s Topsoil, and finally the London Bus Garage saw Lily Bevan’s London Bus performed.

The Dot Collective raise dementia awareness and reshape the way we look at the disease through professional theatre, all while creating positive emotional memories for workshop participants, allowing creativity and positive experiences to thrive.