Director: Nancy Hirst

Set and Costume Designer: Sarah Booth

Lighting Designer: Dan Terry

Projection Designer: Gino Ricardo Green

Costume Supervisor: Evelien Coleman

The Ballad of St John’s Car Park was a sticky-floored tribute to the positive power of protest and standing up for what we believe in.

With spectacular projection, joyous dance and uplifting community song, The Ballad of St John’s Car Park told a unifying story about moments in Medway’s history that have been transformed by activism, from the protested closure of Chatham Dockyard in 1984 to the Black Lives Matter movement’s 2020 campaign to rename a local car park that commemorated a prominent slave trader.

This brand-new immersive theatre production was created and performed by a company of professional performers alongside 200 people from local communities, and young people.

After the show, the bar and karaoke stayed open for an inclusive community party where the audience performed their own karaoke songs.