A powerful clear-eyed look at the relationship between race, the body and violence
Award-winning smash hit production, Dreamscape, an EdFringe 2025 transfer to New York, now comes to London’s Omnibus Theatre!
Beatboxing, spoken word and hip-hop dance reimagine the true story of the night Californian policemen shot dead nineteen-year-old black teenager Tyisha Miller as she lay unconscious in a car.
A hip-hop dreamscape depiction of the innocent pleasures of her life and hopes for the future, told with sweetness, humour and a teenager’s insight contrasts with the violence of her death related in an autopsy report recited by a dispassionate coroner – describing each of her twelve bullet wounds in clinical detail.
Dreamscape shines a light on the complex and often fraught dynamics that shape our lives, inviting us to bear witness, to confront, and to transform.
This highly acclaimed, clear-eyed look at the relationship between race, the body and violence was performed at this year’s EdFringe where it won an EFFTA Award and was one of The Scotsman’s Top 5 EdFringe Shows and The Stage’s Best Shows To See. At the Los Angeles NAACP Awards it won four awards including Best Director (Rickerby Hinds), Best Lead Actor and Best Lead Actress.
Rickerby Hinds was one of the pioneers of hip-hop theatre in the USA with his play Daze to Come in 1989. It was the first full-length play to use the founding elements of hip-hop as the primary language of the stage. Hinds’ subsequent works have inspired generations of young playwrights to speak to the world in the language of hip-hop.
