Rhiannon White, co-founder of award winning political theatre company, Common/Wealth, talks about the companies DIY origins
Rhiannon White will share our DIY origins, how we’ve made shows along the way and why making political theatre is critical and urgent now more than ever. There will be time for questions at the end and hopefully it will encourage you to do it yourself! A call to arms with some inspirational and practical tips along the way.
Rhiannon is co-founder and co-director of Common/Wealth, an award-winning, political, site-specific theatre company based in Cardiff and Bradford. Common/Wealth’s productions tackle the concerns of our time in collaboration with the people most affected by inequity. Most recent work includes Demand the Impossible, a show about police infiltration and injustice.
Working with people as collaborators, performers, participants and audiences. Rhiannon is a Clore Fellow and recipient of a Creative Wales Award. Rhiannon was a panel member on the Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society, chaired by Julia Unwin
Rhiannon is co-author of Do It Yourself: Making Political Theatre.
Common/Wealth is a political theatre company based in Bradford and Cardiff, UK. We make radical, high-quality documentary theatre and other public events that are site-specific, experimental and push form - relevant, artistic work addressing social injustices and concerns of our times, in partnership with the people who are most affected by inequity.
Our ideas are rooted in socialist politics, working-class backgrounds, a keen interest in contemporary theatre, art and design, the people that we meet, and a radical ambition to shift things.
We often co-create our work with local people and present it in the heart of communities: a residential house, a boxing gym, a car park - places where people who might not go to the theatre might come to instead. The subjects we tackle are universally relevant, and we present our work locally, nationally, and internationally.
Part of Unity’s Heritage Lottery Funded project.