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Euton Daley MBE

Euton Daley and Unlock the Chains Collective make and produce theatre that explores the Black experience  through the fusion of dance, music, song and spoken word/performance poetry.

Artist, Director, Mentor and Producer, I have over 40 years’ experience working in the arts. Having developed and managed Pegasus Theatre specialising in youth and community work for over 20 years, my focus is currently on developing my creative practice within the framework of the African- heritage experience.

“A nation that doesn’t understand its own history and the roots of its wealth will struggle to understand how power, finance, politics and economies work. A nation that doesn’t understand its past can’t understand its present….”

I have been a North Wall Arts Propeller Artist for the last two years. As a freelancer, the importance of having a base, can’t be underestimated and the North Wall has given me that support. Here’s a podcast I did for their #NWConnect podcast last year.

Listen to the podcast.

Find out more about my other latest projects here.

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CURRENT PRODUCTION/TOUR

SOLD

​Produced by Kuumba Nia Arts & Unlock the Chains Collective

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"Every so often there is a piece that touches the soul. SOLD is one such show"
Musical Theatre Review

"Euton Daley directs a resonant piece, the show both educational and entertaining to experience" Reviewer

“SOLD is an intimate, involving experience, flawlessly directed by Euton Daley who creates an atmosphere that grips from the start” Reviewer
 
SOLD – Winners:


Best Performer and Best Supporting Performer in a production – OFFIES 2022
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Best Show – Birmingham Fest 2021

Show of the Week – Vaults Festival 2020

​Best Ensemble, Musical Theatre Review Award – Edinburgh Fringe 2019

We are reviving this award-winning production for one night only to mark the International day of Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Tuesday 25 March 2025 at 7.30pm
North Wall Arts Centre
South Parade, Summertown, OX2 7JN


To book, click on the button below or call 01865 319 450


Book tickets for SOLD
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UNLOCK THE CHAINS COLLECTIVE

Unlock the Chains Collective share and celebrate African and Caribbean heritage, culture experience and stories.

STILL BREATHING

Written, Directed & Produced by Euton Daley

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That fear of mistaken identity
Wrong place/wrong time
Born in the wrong skin/colour
Evidently


Still Breathing emerged in response to the world-wide events surrounding the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and as an artistic response to the #BLM and Rhodes Must Fall campaigns in Oxford. In the renewed spirit of hope in the struggles for justice, equality and freedom, the script is an epic performance poetry piece fusing dance, music and song to voice the fears, frustration, fatigue, anger and resilience as yet another Black life is taken by the hands of those tasked to protect us.

A PLACE FOR WE

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All Soul's College/Codrington Library performance
Linked to the production of Still Breathing, Euton is engaged in a Community History research project to research, document and create the stories, histories and role of the African Caribbean community in Oxford alongside the lack of any cultural facilities/space for this community. The
project brings artists, researcher/academics and communities together in the community’s drive,  need and desire for a cultural base. In collaboration with OxfordUniversity (Humanities & History Faculties) and Oxford Brookes University, we explored people and places and how each affect and effect each other.
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Watch this space for the resultant artistic outcome from this research project.
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CURRENT
​PRODUCTION

SUPERMARKET SCROOGE

Wild Boor Ideas

Following 25 sold out performances of the Christmas 2024 family production of The Elves and The Shoemaker at Pegasus Theatre, Euton and Wild Boor Ideas (Emma Boor) turn their sights to Dickens' A Christmas Carol. This will be the second show in a three year partnership with Pegasus Theatre. 

Meet Emily Scratchett, working for Scroogeways Supermarket on Christmas Eve for paltry wages, and her boss Wilhelmina Scrooge. Up to now Wilhelmina has always discounted Emily's loyalty but soon learns to bag a friend for life! Sing along with a feast of Christmas Dinner puppets and fill up your Nectar Card of love in this heart warming family Christmas production.

Now open for booking!

13-24 December (various times)
Pegasus Theatre, Magdalen Road OX4 1RE


Tickets: from £10
Book via the button below
or call the Box Office on 01865 812 150
Book tickets for Supermarket Scrooge
Audience responses to The Elves and The Shoemaker
★★★★★ “ENCHANTING… captivating and magical” Quaere Living

"Not probably, DEFINITELY the best Christmas production I have ever seen. Fantastic sing-a-
long music, great humour, great set, great spirit"

“From the get-go the production hooks the audience in the packed theatre with its catchy
Fifties-style do-wop songs… Strongly recommended” Newbury Weekly News

“A truly wonderful show... Wonderful heart-warming story, great community spirit, magical
puppets & characters, fab songs & acting and overall lovely sense of humour”

“We loved the interactive elements of the show. It was great how you got us all involved
and to join in”

“It’s wonderful, brimming with heart and soul”
“IT WAS THE BEST PLAY EVER”
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“Everyone should see theatre like this”

LATEST PUBLICATION

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#Ending the Silence

#Ending the Silence was launched in 2018 and he is now available for book and performance readings.

"It's a story not often believed" 


#Ending the Silence explores the Black Diaspora experience and struggles for equality, justice and human rights through performance poetry.

Oxford Cultural Anti-Racism Alliance

I have been involved in the setting up of the Oxford Cultural Anti-Racism Alliance which grew out of the events of 2020. We have developed a Manifesto for change and cultural partners have embarked on a training series and planning for radical change to the arts sector in Oxford so that those from the Global Majority (replacing the previously used term BAME) are fully and truly reflected in the leadership and decision making of organisations as well as the work produced in museums, theatres, concert halls etc.

​Ha​ve a read of the Manifesto here
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