Demand The Impossible
Common/Wealth Theatre, October 2025
Creative Company
Director: Rhiannon White
Text by: Taylor Edmonds
Creative Technology, Projection Design and Performer: Nathaniel Mason
Choreographer: Gareth Chambers
Dramaturgy: Sarah Fielding
Set & Visual Design: Studio of Mark Gubb
Lighting Designer: Andy Purves
Performers & Artists: Bianca Ali, Hussina Raja, Soul Roberts
Composition and live music: Oliver Emanuel, Ruari Floyd, Jassen Summogum
Costume and prop design: Efa Dyfan
Production Manager: Nia Thomson
Stage Manager: Emily Howard
Technician: Shaun Gwizdak
Sound technician: Jo Sheehy
Creative Producer: Camilla Brueton
Community Producer: Chantal Williams
Communications Associate: Rachel Dawson
Community Co-ordinator: Eugenia Taylor
Community cast: Sundas Raza, Mohannad Bashir, Janine, Mary, Antonia, Chris, Anne
Assistant Producer: Sophie Lindsey
Activist Advisors:
Tom Fowler – Spycops Info Podcast
Chris Brian – Undercover Research Group
Police Spies Out of Lives
Steve Barley – Blacklist Support Group
Thank you Corn Exchange, Newport; Press Play with Stacey; Immersive Arts UK; Wales Millenium Centre
Demand the Impossible is part-performance, part punk-gig, part-sensory experience, exploring police injustice and the undercover infiltration of activist networks. It challenges us to question truth, trust and power, as uncomfortable relationships between the state, police and citizens are exposed.
We’ll never know what our world would have looked like if we’d been allowed to change it.
We’ll never know what our lives would be like if our trust hadn’t been broken.
But one thing we do know is they come at us because we’re strong, not because we’re weak, and the only way to address this injustice is to keep demanding the impossible.
Demand the Impossible - ran at The Corn Exchange, Newport from 6-13 October 2025.
The development of the production involved close collaboration with Undercover Research Group, Police Spies Out of Lives, and the Spycops Info Podcast.
