SIZE OF COMPANY 14–20 on the road
SCALE OF VENUE Small to medium
PERMANENT STAFF Artistic Director & Chief Executive Adrian Jackson Fundraising & Marketing Director Lisa Caughey
ARTISTIC POLICY Cardboard Citizens has forged a reputation for innovative, interactive, social theatre. It is the only UK professional theatre company working with homeless and ex-homeless people, including refugees and asylum seekers, as creators, participants, and audience. The stories this experience gives access to, together with the company’s roots in forum theatre, yield a distinctive theatricality and an authentic aesthetic.
REVIEW EXTRACTS Mincemeat is a remarkable piece of theatre: multilayered, passionate and as innovative as anything on offer on the London stage. The Guardian (Mincemeat) It has the buzz of a true theatrical event. The Times (Pericles) This is one of the best productions of Büchner’s classic un-finished play I have ever seen. Why is this? Because company and play are so perfectly matched. The Guardian (Woyzeck)
CURRENT PRODUCTIONS Mincemeat An epic thriller, which tells the amazing true story of a WW2 deception and its protagonist Major Martin, the man who never was. A play about value and identity, notions of history and memory. Running time 120 minutes including one interval. 9 actors, 15 on the road Woyzeck Cardboard Citizens’ exploration of the down-and-out in classic literature continues with its interpretation of Georg Büchner’s modernist masterpiece. Running time 90 mins no interval. 6 actors, 10 on the road
FUTURE PRODUCTIONS Future productions will be announced on the company’s website www.cardboardcitizens.org.uk
WRAP-AROUND Workshops based on Forum Theatre and the work of Augusto Boal led by Adrian Jackson, a leading expert on the Theatre of the Oppressed, and a well-traveled teacher and speaker. Jackson has taught Theatre of the Oppressed work in many contexts, throughout Britain and Ireland, and in France, Hong Kong, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, India, Colombia and Kosovo.
RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK 2006 N Ireland: Timon of Athens
TOURING AVAILABILITY Mincemeat :2009 Woyzeck: details on request
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