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In recent years, we have been looking at alternative ways of making and funding our work which has led us to some brilliant collaborations and […]

For me, it was at my first Posh Club in June. Rachel Dawson, Common Wealth’s new Communications Associate, reflects on her first experience of The […]

Fast Fashion and Slow Activism: Alison Jeffer’s reflections on Common Wealth’s Fast Fast Slow at the 2023 British Textile Biennial, Blackburn. From October-November 2023, Common […]

At the start of 2024, Common Wealth began a new venture, employing a Performance Collective, a group of young, working-class creatives who are paid two […]

On Thursday 7th October 2023 academic Jenny Hughes, Common Wealth’s Rhiannon White & Ffion Wyn Morris (collaborator on We No Longer Talk) were invited to […]

Us Here Now exhibition was only ever temporary. The buzz had been so great local people got in touch with us & the surrounding businesses […]

Common Wealth are looking for EIGHT creative people aged 18-30 to join our new Performance Collective. The Performance Collective will collaborate with us to make […]

A Year at Common Space   In 2021, there has been lots going on at Common Wealth Theatre, but one thing we would like to […]

Some news from us, Company Manager Tracy Basu is leaving Common Wealth for pastures new to take up the role as Executive Director at Eden […]

Today marks the start of our week of R&D for Rent Party, a production that will open in Cardiff East in September this year. After […]

I’m extremely excited to be joining the Common Wealth / National Theatre Wales team as Associate Director.  All my work previous to this role has […]

“I don’t think there’s a theatre company in Yorkshire, possibly the country, making work quite like Common Wealth … Whenever you see a piece of […]

Common Wealth are recruiting two new Board members from Bradford between the ages of 18-30 to represent young people. These new Board members will be […]

Y celfyddydau yng Nghymru a thu hwnt: Symud y cydbwysedd a chyd-greu newid cymdeithasol Sut mae artistiaid yng Nghymru a thu hwnt yn galluogi newid […]

    How are artists creating social change? What is co-creation? What does it mean? How do we do it? Can the arts operate from […]

I am over the moon to be joining Common Wealth. I’ve been a fan of the company ever since experiencing No Guts, No Heart, No Glory, […]

  Can you introduce yourself? Who you are, where you live, what your passions are? Shwmae! Hello! I’m Rhian Gregory and live in St Mellons Cardiff. […]

There’s been so much written about the product, the economy, the money that theatre makes – that I wanted to write something about process. Common […]

  Our brilliant thinker and Company Manager Tracy Basu has written some great words about the importance of creativity and alternative thinking: I was born […]

    As part of Common Wealth’s EVERYONE IS AN ARTIST we are inviting Grime Artist Blakie & No Hats No Hoods to run a How to be […]

It’s OFFICIAL! Common Wealth is part of the MOVING ROOTS TOURING NETWORK. So What does it mean? It means we are looking for incredible artists […]

Join us for a FREE theatre workshop for women! We will spend two days together exploring who we are, where we come from and what […]

As we are now into technical rehearsals of ‘I Have Met The Enemy (And The Enemy Is Us)’ I feel I now have enough experience […]

Although when there I was marginally stressed and most definitely high on the exhausted level, I came back with a sense of calm I had […]

Monday ! Brunch! The This is Wales mixer was held at a lovely vegan cafe outside of the centre, a great opportunity to meet the artists […]

Days before I leave Leading up to the dates, I’m all things of nerves and excitement – I will surely leave something behind. My flight […]

  In 10 days we did all this!! 5th March– Mental Health First Aid Training led by See Inside Me Campaigners and Zakia 8th March […]

            In April 2019 Rhiannon went with a UK delegation to take part in the social transformation submit as part of the […]

Did you hear about The Wedding of the Year?! On Saturday 21st July 2018, a group of wonderful women united from different parts of West Yorkshire, at Bradford Town Hall to marry themselves.

Working class women are the stronghold of society – they create and weave together the fabric of every community. It is vital for women to […]

Very proud of this, showreel of work from 2013-2018, filmed and edited by Jack King with music by Wojciech Rusin. Featuring No Guts, No Heart, […]

Today was Uncommon Ground, a conference on socially engaged art hosted at the lowry, I was due to speak (see below!) and before our session […]

Common Wealth would like to make clear that we are not involved in ‘The Elephant in the room’ led by Ellie Harrison. Common Wealth does […]

Hi Friends, Common Wealth and Albany Park Theater Project are making a show about how we connect across borders and bring young people together, we’ve […]

Where we are in the world. Pilsen. A place rich with a cultural resistance, walls of art adorn the streets gathered through the years, created […]

Our first workshop at Albany Park Theatre project (APTP) is about who we are in the World. APTP is a theatre housed in an old […]

Downtown, Chicago We the people see the truth.  It’s the 50th Anniversary commemoration of the wall of respect and we’re here to see an exhibition […]

No Guts, No Heart, No Glory will be on BBC4 on November 15th 2015! Now on iplayer until 8th December 2015 !! Watch here – http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06pyvlh/on-stage-live-from-television-centre […]

We made The Deal Versus the People because we wanted to challenge narratives. There are a lot of dominant narratives in our media – that […]

Bradford shaking The city of Bradford is built from millstone grit – a tough and durable sandstone – and throughout its history, a history shaped […]

I don’t want to read or hear about how much worse the UK is becoming. I don’t want to know about the financial tornado that’s […]

Working with people who’ve never performed before always throws up tricky questions around definitions, often these actors are called non-actors – even though they are […]

Every performance of ‘Our Glass House’ was followed by a post-show discussion. Here are some thoughts, messages and things we often talked about in them. […]

With so much talk of ‘who sees art’ lately, I wanted to write about Common Wealth’s mission statement, ‘to make theatre for people who don’t […]