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Islington People’s Theatre is an Applied Theatre for Social Change Community Interest Company (CIC), based in Islington, North London. We work with community and marginalised groups using applied theatre and drama processes, such as improvisation and devising, to co-create socially engaged work for personal, social and political change. We believe these processes can offer a platform for those voices and communities who are not being heard, a way to re-connect with the self and others, reduce isolation, develop creativity and provide a space to explore and create alternatives.
Applied Theatre is ‘an applied theatre because the art form becomes a transformative agent that places the audience or participants in direct and immediate situations where they can witness, confront and deconstruct aspects of their own and others’ actions‘. (Taylor, 2003: xx).
Theatre for Social Change is ‘an activist form of dramaturgy which aims to influence and alter the actual world, not just reflect it’ (Kuppers 2007: 8). It mainly takes place in non-conventional theatre spaces such as community centres, site-specific venues, treatment centres, prisons and care homes, with participants who have previously no experience of drama or theatre work.
Applied Theatre is ‘an applied theatre because the art form becomes a transformative agent that places the audience or participants in direct and immediate situations where they can witness, confront and deconstruct aspects of their own and others’ actions‘. (Taylor, 2003: xx).
Theatre for Social Change is ‘an activist form of dramaturgy which aims to influence and alter the actual world, not just reflect it’ (Kuppers 2007: 8). It mainly takes place in non-conventional theatre spaces such as community centres, site-specific venues, treatment centres, prisons and care homes, with participants who have previously no experience of drama or theatre work.
Contact
Address
5d Peabody Square,
Greenman Street,
Greater London,
N1 8RR,
United Kingdom
Work Tel. No.
07984 626 024
hollinsheadnicolai@yahoo.co.uk
In Brief
Charity Number
0
No. of Paid Staff
0
No. of Volunteers
3
Does the organisation involve volunteers with experience of the criminal justice system?
Yes
Primary Field of Work
Arts
Custody or Community
Community
Organisation type
Community Interest Company
Regions
London | Inner London | Islington
Fields of Work
Alcohol & drugs | Arts | Employment | Mentoring & befriending | Personal development | Prisons | Research & academia | Restorative justice | Training | Volunteering