GHOST SHIPS (September 2024)

This major immersive theatre event recharts the history of Chatham Dockyard, asking who owns our history and what stories should we tell?

Featuring explosive Hip Hop dance from Olivier Award winners ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company and powerful Kathak from Amina Khayyam Dance Company, original fusion orchestral music, and the choral power of a monumental community ensemble, Ghost Ships illuminates true and untold stories of the extraordinary people who built and sailed the ships of Chatham Dockyard around the world.

Ghost Ships explores the waters that connect past with present, borders with belonging, and people with place, looking at the impact of the Dockyard from its involvement in slavery and abolition to the loss and legacy of its 1984 closure and beyond.