Rent Party

Being broke never looked so fierce!

Come to the party we’ve all been waiting for – a 21st century Austerity Britain immersive show inspired by the 1920s Harlem Renaissance Rent Parties.

Acclaimed choreographer and director Darren Pritchard (House of Ghetto) and Common Wealth invite you, the audience, to pay to come to a party, so that they can make this month’s rent, and entertain you with all their artist friends – dancers, singers, musicians, poets – who will create a kaleidoscopic picture of what it means today to be gifted, Welsh and working class.

Darren Pritchard has reimagined his 5-star smash hit show Rent Party, co-created together with a cast of extraordinarily talented artists from across South Wales. They have put their working class community centre-stage in a dazzling cabaret of performances, telling their own stories about the true cost of austerity Britain.

Rent Party has been commissioned as part of the Moving Roots Touring Network – a creative touring network led by Battersea Arts Centre with producing partners Lyrici Arts (Medway), Jumped Up Theatre (Peterborough), Common Wealth (Cardiff East) and The Old Courts (Wigan).

This is the first of three collaborative touring productions commissioned by Moving Roots. Each partner is re-imagining Darren’s critically acclaimed hit show with a local cast throughout 2021; passing the mic around working class communities and platforming the incredible talents of professional, often unheard artists in their area.