Plays For The People

Join acclaimed theatre maker Andy Smith and award-winning applied arts practitioner Lynsey O’Sullivan for a day of play, discussion, and action.

This day will see three performances of plays from the ongoing project Plays for the People: A Citizens' Assembly, How Can We Be More Anti-Racist? and The Actions.

These plays tackle the climate emergency, inequality and political activism.

They are plays designed to be read aloud together and then discussed.

They are plays where the people in the room play the people in the play.

Plays that ask questions of acting in both a theatrical and ethical sense.

Audience-participants for this special event will each be given a copy of a new publication containing the plays.

Over the course of the day, through the activity, they will be trained in how to undertake performances themselves.

Following it, they can then organise them for their own communities and constituencies, free of any charge.