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The future of theatre is here. It’s in our empty buildings, our streets, our parks and our houses. It’s about things that matter to us, […]

What if every theatre and theatre company saw itself as a community theatre company? What if institutions handed over power to young people to tell their own stories and develop their creativity? What if youth workers were seen as being arts workers, and every community had an artist in its midst? Lyn Gardner writes a reflection on the Culture Plan B podcast featuring Common Wealth, Conrad Murray, Beatfreaks and Company Three.

Common Wealth is a female-led political theatre collective that aims to wrest the art form away from the elite. Poet and writer Kate Tempest joined […]

In the second episode of CulturePlanB, David Jubb talks to Rhiannon White and Evie Manning, Co-Artistic Directors of Common Wealth Theatre. They chat about the importance of making friends as part of the creative process, about the expertise they experience in all the communities they work with, about how youth workers should be appreciated as artists and about the need for transparency and democracy in arts programming and funding.  And tons of other stuff….

Opening Up in Lockdown with Rhiannon White

How do we let people tell their own stories? Does the arts do enough to narrow the class divide, or have we forgotten about our […]

Common Wealth co-founder Rhiannon White on Radical Acts

I HAVE MET THE ENEMY (and the enemy is us) Casting Breakdown I HAVE MET THE ENEMY (and the enemy is us) is a new […]

Bringing together cultural leaders, artists and producers who are testing out new ways of programming, collaborating and effecting change in their cities; featuring Evie Manning, […]

Arnolfini director Claire Doherty will be imagining an arts centre for the future, and for Bristol, with invited guests through a new fortnightly podcast series.

Evie speak at the No Boundaries conference here, starts at 11.55 minutes in

I’m Pippa, nineteen years old and currently occupying a few free months before University with all sorts of creative ventures. One of those happens to […]