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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

I’m going to be 34 this year, I thought about it the other day as I attempted to quit my day job before, rather sensibly, […]

The day Evie told me about her idea (to stage a performance about Domestic Violence in a house) we were in a car with her […]

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 […]