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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 […]

By @DiffwysCriafol Thank you to Peter Davies for the insightful editing of this piece. Thank you also to Rhiannon White & Ffion Wyn for creating […]

This blog is hard to write. Not just because it’s a rare paid opportunity, and I’m worried it just won’t be good enough, but because […]

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 […]

This summer, Common Wealth are working with local people in East Cardiff and artist Helen Bur to bring a new artwork to St Mellons, next […]

Llanrumney (Welsh: Llanrhymni) is a suburb in east Cardiff. Isms – A distinctive practice, system, or philosophy, typically a political ideology or an artistic movement. […]

We are very emotional to say goodbye to the excellent Lisa Mallaghan and Jenny Hughes who have been our brilliant Chair & Vice Chair for […]

I was in the office, at my part-time arts marketing job, when I checked my phone. I saw a flash of images. Rows of empty […]

Epic Fail was a starting point. It was the first time Common Wealth worked with Glan-Yr-Afon Primary School in Llanrumney, a school known for campaigning […]

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 […]

Hello/Shwmae! My name is Callum Lloyd, I’m an actor and writer from Rumney, Cardiff. I recently participated in Common Wealth’s two-day exploration of Cardiff East […]

Common Wealth is passionate about our home in Cardiff East and we know the value of co-creation: it can inspire and lead to social change. […]

Common Wealth’s Sounding Board member Steph reflects on what Us Here Now means to her and Cardiff East and interviews Jude who took part in […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Photos by Kalpana Tagore In March 2020 Common Wealth invited Grime artist Maxsta and No Hats No Hoods/ Fruition to run a workshop in Cardiff […]

    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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

I was born in a South Wales ‘sink’ estate in 1984 the year of the miners strike. My mother a single mum with three children, […]

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 […]

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 […]