Inspiration
Hoxton was put on the cultural and media map in the 1990s for its fame as a groovy district of loft apartments and the stomping ground for artists that came to be collectively known as the yba’s - Young British Artists. The area was also identified as in severe need of urban regeneration and the government promised an influx of funding to improve housing and social amenities.
Lisa Goldman, Artistic Director of The Red Room and the Red Room team spent periods between 2004 - 2005 interviewing residents of Hoxton housing estates to find out just what has changed for them. Their perspectives form the basis of the production of Hoxton Story. Goldman also took inspiration from the relationship between William Shakespeare and the Hoxton area. Shakespeare was once a Hoxton resident and most of the houses in the surrounding estates are named after characters in several of his plays; the sub-plot of Hoxton Story is loosely based on Romeo and Juliet.
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“Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we then feel that the splendid works which he has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock. The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day, for ever.”
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