2024
We initiate our spring season with a powerful production on the power of community theatre on people’s lives. With an innovative theatrical production integrating the work of an established playright, the American upcoming theatre maker Annie Baker, and new writing based on interviews of our theatre company cast, on political oppression and fear and mental wellbeing.
Circle Mirror Transformation
Apr-May 2024
London Bridge stabbings 2017.
8 dead, 48 injured, millions around the world affected. At these challenging times of war and fear, how do we choose to respond?
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A small group of people from different cultures, nationalities and gender identities, find their way through life in London and join a weekly community theatre class. Their lives intersect, their stories get vocalised, their secrets revealed, creating a microcosmos, allowing them to ignore the reality of atrocities in their city.
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A piece of meta-theatre where a group of actors take on the roles of participants in a theatre class to be ‘transformed’. What is our role as audience members, sitting outside of ‘their new reality’ looking at them ?
Past Productions
A night of monologues celebrating all womxn and raising awareness of mental health, wellbeing and community inclusion.
2023
The Centre of Arts and Wellbeing at the University of Brighton have brought a collective of academics, artists, writers, and students together to share creative work exploring research-led practices of storytelling.
August 2023