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BHOPAL TO BRIDGEHAMPTON: A THEATRICAL
RESPONSE TO TRAGEDY AND DISASTER TOURISM.

Following the 1984 Union Carbide Bhopal gas disaster, and in the year of its 30th anniversary, this piece responds to an ongoing tragedy that affected 15,000- 20,000 people in its immediate aftermath, 100,000 people since then, as well as approximately 30,000 people who have been, and continue to be, affected by contaminated drinking water still present today in the area around the old Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India.

Based on Paul Antick’s experimental essay ‘Bhopal to Bridgehampton: Schema for a Disaster Tourism Event’, this performance, tutored by Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, and devised and directed by 2nd year Drama, Theatre and Performance students at the University of Roehampton, follows the characters Smith, a photographer, and Willing, an ethnographer, as they ‘chase’ the tragedy through the streets and alleys of Bhopal to the home, in Bridgehampton USA, of Union Carbide’s then CEO Warren Anderson. Throughout their journey Smith and Willing ponder the ways in which the ‘world’s largest peacetime disaster’ could be remembered through what they call the ‘world’s bitterest disaster tourism event’. Part truth, part fiction, this performance is a memorial to those killed on the night of 3rd December
1984 and those that continue to suffer the after effects of Union Carbide’s negligence.

When: May 2nd, 7-7.30pm Drinks: 7.30-8pm Discussion: 8-9pm Where: Jubilee Theatre, Digby Stuart College, University of Roehampton Free tickets: eventbrite.com/e/bhopal-to-bridgehampton-fundraising-evening-tickets-11154690981 More information: facebook.com/STPBhopal; @STPBhopal; bhopal.org/