Rosemary Lee and Simon Whitehead brought together an eclectic group of performers - Giselle Edwards, Milton Lopes, Alesandra Seutin and Ben Stammers - to create a bespoke durational performance for the specific habitat and social sphere of this magnificent oak tree in Bruce Castle Park.

They also worked with local people and integrated their contributions into the performance - from a choir of young women who performed a specially commissioned song by Terry Mann to the poems of Year 5 children from Lancasterian and Risley Primary Schools developed with poets Abe Gibson and Deanna Rodger.

Beneath the boughs, an evening of poetry and song, was performed by Abe Gibson, Deanna Rodger,  Issac Lee-Kronick, Jenny Minton, Helen Chadwick & Rebecca Thorn, Jess Hardie, Kerry Fletcher, Phil Minton, Sam Lee and Sianed Jones.

Calling Tree

A cycle of performances of songs, poems and bird-callings was set in and around the ancient oak tree
in Bruce Castle Park
in the summer of 2016

Calling Tree was part of the LIFT Festival 2016     (London International Festival of Theatre)
LIFT will return to London in two years time!

See the Calling Tree photo gallery

Stories and memories of the Tottenham Oak here

New poem about the Tottenham Oak by Abe Gibson - Of this tree