Created with Sketch.Created with Sketch.Created with Sketch.

Third Angel presents

THE DESIRE PATHS

“If you could rename a street of your town after a hope, dream or ambition for the future, what would you choose?”

The Desire Paths is a participatory, story-swapping, map-making performance for public spaces. We chalk out a large, scale map of a town centre and we invite the public to rename the streets of their towns after a hope for the future: personal, political, playful and profound.

The show is remade with local partners and performers in each town and city it visits. Click the links below to see images and films of previous performances, and read a selection of the renamed streets and the stories behind them.

The Desire Paths: Plymouth
July 2022
Photograph: pbmedia

The Desire Paths: York
September 2021
Photograph: Charlie Kirkpatrick

The Desire Paths: Bedford
September 2021
Photograph: Chiara Mac Call

The Desire Paths: Slough
August 2019
Photograph: Terry Payman

The Desire Paths: Sheffield
October 2016
Photograph: Joseph Priestley

Touring Archive

03 Jul 2022, 11:00
THE PIAZZA, Plymouth PL1 1HH
02 Jul 2022, 10:00
THE PIAZZA, Plymouth PL1 1HH
01 Jul 2022, 10:00
THE PIAZZA, Plymouth PL1 1HH
18 Sep 2021, 10:00
Exhibition Square, YORK
17 Sep 2021, 10:00
Exhibition Square, YORK
05 Sep 2021, 10:00
Harpur Square, BEDFORD (with The Place)
04 Sep 2021, 10:00
Harpur Square, BEDFORD (with The Place)
03 Sep 2021, 10:00
Harpur Square, BEDFORD (with The Place)
05 Oct 2019, 11:00
FUN PALACES, HOME ON THE HIGH STREET, SLOUGH
31 Aug 2019, 11:00
HOME On The High Street, Slough
30 Aug 2019, 11:00
HOME On The High Street, Slough
29 Aug 2019, 11:00
HOME On The High Street, Slough
01 Jul 2018, 10:00
Stage 3, Northern Stage, NEWCASTLE
30 Jun 2018, 10:00
Stage 3, Northern Stage, NEWCASTLE
24 Jun 2018, 10:00
Stage 3, Northern Stage, NEWCASTLE
23 Jun 2018, 10:00
Stage 3, Northern Stage, NEWCASTLE
22 Jun 2018, 13:00
Stage 3, Northern Stage, NEWCASTLE
22 Jun 2018, 10:00
Great Exhibition of the North/Northern Stage, Newcastle


There's lots more information about making and touring Third Angel projects 2008-2017 on our original blog, and 2017-2023 on the blog on this site.