Hannah White’s work is all about connection and solidarity: listening and sharing what she has heard is at the heart of what she does. Since November 2023, she has been working on adapting the writing of John Berger for a new theatre show. Based on Photocopies written in the 1990s, the audience is guided through a series of encounters. Recalled with wisdom, love and humour, they meet a pregnant teenager on a bus to Derry, a homeless woman carefully feeding a bald, sick pigeon and a group of prisoners reading.

After the first phase of development and performance of this work in progress, Hannah now wishes to deepen the scenes by talking to people who have experienced the issues portrayed in the show. In the first of a series of workshops – this spring 2025, they will be visiting the open prison on Sheppey to explore with prisoners what resonates in the writing and what more could be added as well as to listen and recreate the prisoners’ stories using movement and theatre. Later on the full company will return to the prison to perform the show after a second phase of development.

She launched a crowdfunding campaign to support workshops with prisoners to develop this new show adapted from the writing of John Berger.